o.b.
ads, booklets & actual tampons:
German (1970s) - German (1972) nude
woman on bed - German
nude (1970s) - French
(1989) - folder,
Germany, early 1950s (tells
what o.b. means!) - Dutch, two ads from
1959 giving THEIR take on what o.b. means,
which was wrong - Dutch ads, 1962, 1967 - Belgian ad with
beach & bathing suits, 1980s? - o.b. puberty booklets
(excerpts): German,
Dutch (2004) -
o.b. actual tampons:
Switzerland (o.b.é.),
1970
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Museum of Menstruation
and Women's Health
o.b. menstrual tampons
Belgian o.b.
menstrual tampon ad: women on a
beach (probably 1980s)
Ads featuring women in bathing
gear mean to show that tampons,
carried inside the body, don't
scream to anyone within a short
distance that the bearer has her
period, a sin in America and a
slightly lesser offense in much of
Europe. Big pads would scream as
well as soak up water and maybe
leak menses, worsening the crime.
Instead of covering up the
women's menstrual regions with a
shirt, a towel and loose pants -
the ad seems to have missed an
opportunity - the French, as
expected, showed the invisibility
of the tampon in a white suit,
tempting fate, perhaps.
The woman in the center has some
major skin damage unless that's a
printing defect. I hope it is. But
it's a color suited to the theme.
o.b. ads,
booklets & actual tampons:
German
(1970s) - German
(1972) nude woman on bed - German nude
(1970s) - French
(1989) - folder,
Germany, early 1950s (tells what o.b.
means!) - Dutch,
two ads from 1959 giving THEIR
take on what o.b. means, which was
wrong - Dutch ads, 1962, 1967 - Belgian
ad with beach & bathing suits,
1980s? - o.b. puberty booklets
(excerpts): German,
Dutch
(2004) - o.b. actual tampons:
Switzerland (o.b.é.),
1970
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o.b. ads,
booklets & actual tampons:
German
(1970s) - German
(1972) nude woman on bed - German nude
(1970s) - French
(1989) - folder,
Germany, early 1950s (tells what o.b.
means!) - Dutch,
two ads from 1959 giving THEIR
take on what o.b. means, which was
wrong - Dutch ads, 1962, 1967 - Belgian
ad with beach & bathing suits,
1980s? - o.b. puberty booklets
(excerpts): German,
Dutch
(2004) - o.b. actual tampons:
Switzerland (o.b.é.),
1970
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