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This tour of the actual museum celebrates the culture of menstruation, providing comfort, confidence and yes, convenience. The Washington, D.C. museum was founded in 1994 by Harry Finley, the wry fellow who designed the Website. The F.A.Q. and Harry's story (how does a guy decide start a museum of menstruation?) are introductions to what is mostly a history of sanitary napkin advertising history, a international look at how marketing departments deal with discreet topics. There are artifacts as well as ads, though, including antique Kotex machines and a costume made of sanitary pads. A fun history of a serious subject.
Dear Mr. Finley,
From one guy to another, YOU'RE OUT OF CONTROL!!!
OSLO (Reuters) - An advertisement in a Norwegian newspaper comparing the Japanese flag to a used sanitary napkin sparked protests Tuesday from the Japanese embassy in Oslo.
The ad, placed in the run-up to next month's Winter Olympics in Nagano, showed a white sanitary napkin with a blood-red spot in the middle.
"We wish the female participants luck in Nagano," read the caption, written in Japanese-style script.
Japan's flag, symbolizing the rising sun, is a red circle on a white background.
"We have sent a so-called protest letter to both the newspaper and the company," diplomat Keisuke Ikegami told Reuters.
"This is an unmistakable image of the Japanese flag. . . . We hope that such misuse of the Japanese national symbol won't occur again," he said. "We don't think this is creative advertising at all."
Swedish company SABA Mølynlycke, the maker of the sanitary napkin, said the company regretted any offense caused by the ad, which ran Sunday in Norway's biggest selling daily, Verdens Gang.
Hi!
I received my Keeper in the mail a month ago and just recently got to try it!!! I'm so proud of my Keeper. The first day I used it I announced it to the whole cafeteria at breakfast in my high school. [The woman is mad!] I was/am really excited about these new innovations.
After I finished a whole cycle I told everyone in my gay pride group about The Keeper and grossed them all out. Haha... oh, well.
See, I love getting my period. I can't explain it, but thanx fer talking bout The Keeper on yer site. This is my fave Web site and I visit it often. Keep up the good work!!!
I liked your site very much but I would have like it better if it had addressed using mind control to limit the duration of your menstruation. When I was young my mother told me that I could control it and somehow I did. I limited my cycle to three days. I felt that was long enough to stay healthy. I have since done drugs and went back to a five-day menstruation. I no longer obtain what I needed to do it again. [?] Has this area ever been explored?
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2 days too long
Hello,
I saw your Web address in a magazine so I thought I would check out your site.
I was surprised to know that there was a museum on menstruation. Your sight is interesting and I hope I can visit the museum some day.
I do have doubts that any woman would enjoy wearing a washable pad---but of course you are a man, so I guess I could see why you might say that. Ha. Keep up the good work.
I love your Web site, and definitely plan to visit the museum in the near future. This is wonderful!
My friend Liz and I are great fans of menstruation. I made a Web site for our 'organization' called Tample Hygenica [Registrar! Their parents must be notified immediately!] a few months ago . . . suddenly, this afternoon, I was struck by the thought, "Hey - maybe there are otherTampactic Web sites out there!" So, I went to Yahoo to search. And I discovered your fabulous page. Please, do me the great favor of visiting my yet incomplete Web site. (With poetry and all...) Here is the URL:
http://www.oberlin.edu/~thodgdon/stank.htm
Once again, I'd like to thank you for providing the world with a Museum of Menstruation. This is fabulous.
Your site is downright weird. Well, I admire you for learning Norwegian, jeg snakker norsk ogsaa. (Self taught.)
Here's a question from a woman: can you tell me what the moon has to do with menstruation and how it could possibly affect when I start my period? I mean, isn't "moon" something to do with where the word menstruation originated from? Anyway, if you could add something like that to your site, it'd be cool.
Anyway, enjoyed it.
I LOVE it [Instead]! As a barrel-racing, horsy person, the Instead makes my long hours in the saddle more easy to bear, no soreness, no changing behind a tree on a trail ride. I tried the others, Keeper and Tassaway, too hard to insert, but INSTEAD is great!
Hi. I read about your site in the January issue of Glamour Magazine. I just had to check it out right away! What an entertaining, informative, and FUN site to visit. I am going to put it in my "favorites" so I can show my all my friends!
I'm not old enough to have had to use the old-style methods, but I remember my mother telling stories of how all the men would know when the women had their periods because of all the "rags" hung out on the clothesline to dry. In the winter, they would have to dry them inside by the stove or they would freeze. Sometimes an animal would try to take them down from the line if they left them out overnight. I suppose it smelled like something good to eat!
I am creating a show on menstruation and menopause, and looking for work in all media. It can be from a spiritual, cultural, personal, or historical perspective.
The show runs 9 - 19 April 1998 at the Pentucket Arts Center, Haverhill, Massachusetts (U.S.A.).
As soon as you can, contact Amy Shutt, Bradford College, Box 511, Bradford, MA 01835 (U.S.A.). Phone: (978) 469-1323, or e-mail: ashutt@bnet.bradford.edu
I need your work or proposals as soon as possible!
Hi, I'm a student from Australia trying to contact some feminist artists who use menstrual blood as a medium - are you able to help me out? It would be much appreciated.
laura : alra.editors@adelaide.edu.au