Vintage Lysol Douching Advertisement Corner
The turn-of-the-century Lysol douche: For those married women whose genitalia doesn't naturally reek of bleach like it used to. These early-1900s ads, courtesy of flickr user mrbill, explain the many marital problems that can be resolved by a good vagina sterilization.
The Lysol douche: for when your husband locks you out of the house
The Lysol douche: for when your husband locks you in the house
The Lysol douche: for when your vagina deteriorates after only five years of marriage
The Lysol douche: for when the "precious air of romance" is directly related to the scent of the air surrounding your vagina
The Lysol douche: for Germans
12:03 pm
"Don't experiment - don't be mislead by false theories - make no mistake - only a poison can kill germs."
Gee, way to make me want to put your product in my body, dudes. Tell me more about how I should use poison internally!
12:04 pm
This totally made my morning.
12:41 pm
haha. "only a poison can restore your femininity"
12:45 pm
These chicks are hot.
3:48 pm
That is some scariness... I used an old tobacco advertisement in a piece a while ago about European laws regulating use of theater critics words in theater advertising: http://dcblog43.com/?p=102
10:36 pm
I was just speaking with a friend on that said she used Lysol for medicine and douched. I SCREAMED OUT laughing but then looked on the interenet and there was. Lysol for fememine hygiene. And she still does...
12:56 pm
What isn't said (and *couldn't* be said) in these ads was that 'germs' were euphemisms for sperms: that Lysol could be used as an after-sex spermicide... but it was ineffective at that task, too.
2:43 pm
Nice blog as for me. It would be great to read something more about that topic.
3:20 pm
I am 63 yrs old. When I told the girls that I work with that my mother told me when I go married to use Lysol as a douche, they couldn't believe it. So, I came online to show them and here were the ads! They still have their jaws on the floor!