The History of Periods
Betwixt The Sheets: The History of Sex, Scandal & Society
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What Is Feminine Hygiene?
"It's dirty that menstruation is dirty, but then like I'm going to do a quick segue into some of the shocking things I discovered," she says. "I would look at product boxes and nowhere do the word menstruation or period appear anywhere." In ads for sanitary napkins in the early 1900s, women were sold the notion they had to douche on a regular basis with bleach and Lysol. 'We will help you hide it and keep you shame free,' one ad said.
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