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No matter how many times I see these ads, I've never ceases to amaze me how long it took this idea to become a successful commercial product. The cultural persistence that a women's reproductive organs really don't belong to her and shouldn't be touched and all that.
My mother was reluctant to let me use tampons more than 30 years after this ad was printed. I had to buy them with my own money.
When the toxic shock thing hit the news I was an adult and she started trying to talk me out of them all over again.
When the toxic shock thing hit the news, my idiot sister ran all over town, buying up Rely tampons—the worst offenders! That was before my family went no contact with me, but judging from occasional “friend” requests from Facebook, she’s still alive.