Kotex
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Kotex is a global brand of menstrual hygiene products, which includes the Kotex maxi, teen and ultra-thin pads, Bamboo Pads and Liners, BioCare pads and Liners, U by Kotex Click tampons, and Kotex dai
A Kotex "Deo" pad
A Kotex newspaper advertisement from 1920
Kotex ad, painted by Coby Whitmore (1950)
The infamous "Red Dot" shown above a Kotex pad.
Victorian morality
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Victorian morality is a distillation of the moral views of the middle class in 19th-century Britain, the Victorian era.
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…by using intimate advice columnist Mary Pauline Callender. Originally sold in a hospital blue box at 12 for 60 cents (equivalent to $11 in 2025), Victorian sexual prudishness caused slow acceptance until Montgomery Ward began advertising them in its 1926 catalog, reaching $11 million sales in 1927 in 57 countries. It became…
Queen Victoria, Prince Albert, and their children as an idealized family
Holman Hunt's The Awakening Conscience (1853)