Would you stop menstruating if you could?
Words and expressions for menstruation
What did European and American women use for menstruation in the past?


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Ad for Whenever menstrual pads (September 1987, U.S.A.)

By the 1990s many companies world wide put small pouches into their packages of pads so a woman could carry a single one, concealing it, and use it to contain the used pad before throwing it away.

(Here are ads for New Freedom and the German pad Camelia showing pouches, and here are pouches found near toilets to contain used pads.)

Note "thoroughly discreet" ("discreet" appears three times in this ad) and "incognito" among the large text; they appeal to concerns of American women, who are more worried about being suspected of menstruating than women in many European countries; compare a Camelia ad from Germany.

 
 

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Would you stop menstruating if you could?
Words and expressions for menstruation
What did European and American women use for menstruation in the past?

 

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