Little
Doozee, an after-the-party
contraceptive
douche nozzle for a soda bottle.
Australian
douche ad (ca. 1900) - Fresca
douche powder (U.S.A.) (date ?) - Kotique douche
liquid ad, 1974 (U.S.A.) - Liasan (1) genital
wash ad, 1980s (Germany) - Liasan (2) genital
wash ad, 1980s (Germany) - Lysol douche liquid
ad, 1928 (U.S.A.) - Lysol
douche liquid ad, 1948 (U.S.A.) - Marvel douche liquid
ad, 1928 (U.S.A.) - Midol
menstrual pain pill ad, 1938 (U.S.A.) - Midol booklet
(selections), 1959 (U.S.A.) - Mum deodorant cream
ad, 1926 (U.S.A.) - Myzone
menstrual pain pills ad, 1952 (Australia) -
Pristeen genital
spray ad, 1969 (U.S.A.) - Spalt pain tablets,
1936 (Germany) - Vionell
genital spray ad, 1970, with Cheryl Tiegs
(Germany) - Zonite
douche liquid ad, 1928 (U.S.A.)
The Perils of
Vaginal Douching (essay by Luci Capo
Rome) - the odor
page
Read 1930s criticism of
douche products Zonite
and Lysol. See Lysol information in old newspapers and Lysol ads from 1948 and 1934.
Visit the odor page.
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MUSEUM OF MENSTRUATION AND
WOMEN'S HEALTH
New Knowledge
for Women:
A Manual of Marriage Hygiene
American
Health Association, 1933, U.S.A.
Birth control
disclaimer, final page
Below:
I enlarged the statement on the
right-hand page (see the
bottom of this page)
so you can compare it with some of
the restrictions the birth-control
movement had to
deal with.
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Below:
The booklet almost
comes
clean.
But compare the
following (from the first
page) with the manual's
statement, enlarged
below:
"The Comstock Act,
(ch. 258 17 Stat. 598
enacted March 3, 1873)
is a United States
federal law which made
it illegal to send any
'obscene, lewd, and/or
lascivious' materials
through the mail, including
contraceptive
devices and
information.
In addition to banning
contraceptives, this
act also banned the distribution
of information on
abortion for
educational purposes
following the ideal of
'Hear no Evil, See no
Evil.' Twenty-four
states passed similar
prohibitions on
materials distributed
within the states.[1]
Collectively, these
state and federal
restrictions are known
as the Comstock laws.
"The sale and
distribution of
obscene materials has
been unlawful in most
of the American states
since the early 1800s,
and has been
prohibited by federal
law since 1873. The
federal anti-obscenity
laws are still in
effect in 2008 and are
enforced,[2] though
there are extensive
debates on what is
'obscene.' . . .
"In 1932, [Margaret]
Sanger
arranged for a
shipment of diaphragms
to be mailed from
Japan to a sympathetic
doctor in New York
City. When U.S.
customs confiscated
the package as illegal
contraceptive devices,
Sanger helped file a
lawsuit. In 1936,
a federal appeals
court ruled in United
States v. One Package
of Japanese Pessaries
that the federal
government could
not interfere with
doctors providing
contraception to
their patients.
"In 1965, the U.S.
Supreme Court case
Griswold v.
Connecticut struck
down one of the
remaining Comstock
laws, the bans on
contraception in
Connecticut and
Massachusetts.
However, Griswold only
applied to marital
relationships.
Eisenstadt v. Baird
(1972) extended its
holding to unmarried
persons as
well."
(From
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comstock_Law
[I added the red
emphasis])
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End Mon Docteur douche set from the 1920s.
SECRET contraceptive tampon: Lehn & Fink New
Improved Tampon - Little Doozee, an after-the-party
contraceptive douche nozzle for a soda
bottle. -
Birth control
and religion | Birth
control drugs, old | Birth control douche & sponges Read
1930s criticism
of douche products
Lysol & Zonite and. See Lysol information in old newspapers and Lysol ads from 1948 and 1934. All tampons on this
site.
Australian douche
ad (ca. 1900) - Fresca
douche powder (U.S.A.) (date ?) - Kotique douche
liquid ad, 1974 (U.S.A.) -
Liasan (1) genital
wash ad, 1980s (Germany) - Liasan (2) genital
wash ad, 1980s (Germany) - Lysol douche liquid
ad, 1928 (U.S.A.) -
Lysol douche
liquid ad, 1948 (U.S.A.) - Marvel douche liquid
ad, 1928 (U.S.A.)
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