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CONTRIBUTE to Humor, Words and expressions about menstruation and Would you stop menstruating if you could?
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Extraction |
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Norwegian menstruation exhibit |
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Religión y menstruación |
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Tampon directory |
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Teen ads directory |
Tour of the former museum (video) |
Underpants & panties directory |
Videos, films directory |
Words and expressions about menstruation |
Would you stop menstruating if you could? |
What did women do about menstruation in the past? |
Washable pads |
Read 10 years (1996-2006) of articles and Letters to Your MUM on this site.
Leer la versión en español de los siguientes temas: Anticoncepción y religión, Breve reseña - Olor - Religión y menstruación - Seguridad de productos para la menstruación.


THE MUSEUM OF MENSTRUATION AND WOMEN'S HEALTH

Sea Pearls menstrual sponge, contemporary [2007], U.S.A.
(company Web site)

This is the most recent product; the company's older sponge offer [2000] is here.

Women probably have used sponges for absorbing menstrual discharge, medicating their vaginas and killing sperm for thousands of years. See older commercial American sponges in this museum and read an expert's advice about cleaning them at the bottom of this page.

Below: A Sea Pearls package.

Below: The sponges from the package with enclosed pouch.

Below: Instructions from another package.

NEXT: Selections from the 2007 Sea Pearls literature
The contemporary Gynotex (from the Netherlands) menstrual sponge
Cardboard
American sponge can with sponge.
Orange-design can
with sponge. Black can and sponge.
Beautiful (Australian?) sponge can
with sponge lacking a net.
Anna Health Sponge
(U.S.A., 1940s?)

Read the main Hartmann early disposable pad page and see similar early U.K. towels (menstrual pads) by Mosana.
Washable pads
- Menstrual sponge - Swedish advertisement for a belt and pad and adhesive pad
Suspenders for holding pads (U.S.A., 19th century)

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