Pictures of this cup and others. Tentative history of this cup. Older comments from users of menstrual cups. CONTRIBUTE to Humor, Words and expressions about menstruation and Would you stop menstruating if you could? Some MUM site links: HOMEPAGE | MUM address & What does MUM mean? | Email the museum | Privacy on this site | Who runs this museum?? | Amazing women! | Art of menstruation (and awesome ancient art of menstruation) | Artists (non-menstrual) | Asbestos | Belts | Bidets | Birth control and religion | Birth control drugs, old | Birth control douche & sponges | Founder bio | Bly, Nellie | MUM board | Books: menstruation & menopause (& reviews) | Cats | Company booklets for girls (mostly) directory | Contraception and religion | Contraceptive drugs, old | Contraceptive douche & sponges | Costumes | Menstrual cups | Cup usage | Dispensers | Douches, pain, sprays | Essay directory | Examination, gynecological (pelvic) (short history) | Extraction | Facts-of-life booklets for girls | Famous women in menstrual hygiene ads | FAQ | Feminine napkin, towel, pad directory | Founder/director biography | Gynecological topics by Dr. Soucasaux | Humor | Huts | Links | Masturbation | Media coverage of MUM | Menarche booklets for girls and parents | Miscellaneous | Museum future | Norwegian menstruation exhibit | Odor | Olor | Pad, towel, napkin directory | Patent medicine | Poetry directory | Products, some current | Puberty booklets for girls and parents| Religion | Religión y menstruación | Your remedies for menstrual discomfort | Menstrual products safety | Sanitary napkin, towel, pad directory | Seguridad de productos para la menstruación | Science | Shame | Slapping, menstrual | Sponges | Synchrony | Tampon directory | Early tampons | Teen ads directory | Tour of the former museum (video) | Towel, pad, sanitary napkin directory | 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.

MUSEUM OF MENSTRUATION AND WOMEN'S HEALTH Tassette rubber menstrual cup (catamenial receptor) prospectus, instructions, promotional leaflets for women, doctors & medical community (1950s-1960s, U.S.A.) (tentative history of this cup, pictures & sketchy history of American menstrual cups) "Tassette: the safe and sanitary menstrual cup" (ad, RN magazine, Sept. 1960) Introduction. I thank the former Tambrands, maker of Tampax tampons, for contributing this material! Below: RN (at the bottom right) undoubtedly stands for registered nurse. NEXT . undated leaflet: "'Tassette' menstrual cup for internal sanitary protection" - newspaper article, 20 March 1961: "New Menstrual Aid Offered on National basis" - undated ad: "3 out of 4 nurses use Tassette" - undated leaflet: "a fresh point of view" - Tassette stock prospectus, 1961 - "Tassette: the safe and sanitary menstrual cup" - "a fresh point of view" (#2) - "A Note to the Budget Minded" - "Tassette Menstrual Cup: The ultimate in Sanitary Protection" - the THIRD "a fresh point of view" Pictures of this cup and others. Tentative history of this cup. Older comments from users of menstrual cups. © 2008 Harry Finley. It is illegal to reproduce or distribute any of the work on this Web site in any manner or medium without written permission of the author. Please report suspected violations to hfinley@mum.org\