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The Museum of Menstruation and Women's Health
menstruation, advertisement, tampon, period, menstrual

Ad for Pursettes tampons
Movie Life magazine, U.S.A., November 1965

Pursettes ads ranged from awfully gray (and the one below), to testimonials, to colorful cartoons apparently aimed at a young audience, an audience still hard to reach in 1965 - and even today. Taboos worked against any woman using tampons but especially young ones and virgins.

Read the text about "single women," women who had never had sexual intercourse. Oh, of course. Times have changed.

Like the earlier Dale tampon, Pursettes had a lubricated tip for easier insertion. And like most of the earliest tampons, Pursettes came mostly without an insertion tube.

See the insertion tube tampon and box.

Read Getting to Know You, a Pursettes booklet

More Pursettes ads and 'pons:

Pursettes (no applicator with a lubricated tip, like Dale, above, and lubricated applicator version, U.S.A.) tampons - lubricated applicator version (1960-70s?) - tampon, box, carrier - 3 newspaper ads, 1959 - Tampax inter-office memo about Pursettes ad costs (30 Jan. 1964) - Box of 40 (1960s?) - ads: 1959, Jan. '64, Feb. '64, 1965, 1972 (testimonial), Feb. 1974, also Feb. 1974, Oct. 1974, undated (1970s?) - ad offering educational material

Tampons  directory
Pad, towel, napkin directory
I thank the former Tambrands, which made Tampax until absorbed (!) by Procter & Gamble, for donating this along with about a thousand other items from its archives.

Below: The black and white ad occupies the outer 2/3 of a page that
measures 7 3/4 x 11" (20 x 28 cm).
Tambrands fingers typed the information at top and underlined some words.

MORE Pursettes
: Read Getting to Know You, a Pursettes booklet

Pursettes (no applicator with a lubricated tip, like Dale, above, and lubricated applicator version, U.S.A.) tampons -
lubricated applicator version (1960-70s?) - tampon, box, carrier - 3 newspaper ads, 1959 - Tampax inter-office memo
about Pursettes ad costs (30 Jan. 1964) - Box of 40 (1960s?) - ads: 1959, Jan. '64, Feb. '64, 1965, 1972 (testimonial),
Feb. 1974, also Feb. 1974, Oct. 1974, undated (1970s?) - ad offering educational material

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