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There's a Flickr group called Not So Fresh Feeling created to collect pictures relating to menstruation. The offerings run the gamut from art projects, to vintage ads, to a picture of a discount douche, to a pair of uterus earrings, to a photo of a Pee Wee Herman doll sitting on a store shelf among boxes of Kotex. [Flickr] More »
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Why is it that menstrual products like tampons, pads, and PMS meds are always marketed to us in the campiest way possible? It's almost as though everyone's so embarrassed about what periods really are that cheesy-ness, euphemisms, and blue liquid are used as distractions from the fact that vaginas actually, you know, bleed. (To paraphrase Alice Cooper.) Up top is an Australian ad from the '80s for Tampax with applicators, starring Naomi Watts, who bemoans all of life's hassles, particularly "that one you don't talk about." But you know how we do: We talk about it...and talk, and talk, and talk. Jeez, you'd think we couldn't get enough of our periods sometimes. Anyway, after the jump check out the gallery of vintage period commercials and print ads we compiled. More »
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