Vintage videos with helpful advice about what to do (and not do) during your period

These videos crack me up, although I personally think the second one is better. I especially love the advice about not swimming the first few days of your period because you might get chills and catch cold (first video), or the advice to dry your hair quickly, dress nicely, and avoid strenuous exercise (second video). "Pay more attention to your hair and nails, and plan to wear your prettiest dress," around minute 5 in the second video. Oh yes, that surely has something to do with menstruation!

Also, who changes their pad 6 times a day? That seems a bit excessive. Maybe the absorbancy and quality of pads was different back then or something. Thank goodness they got rid of those sanitary napkin belts. I'll never forget finding a really old box of pads in my grandma's closet one summer and being entirely perplexed as she explained the old system to me.

I especially love how everyone glosses over the part about cramps. In the first video, Molly only alludes to feeling a bit strange, but her mother just offers to have a mother/daughter conference night. Oooh, wheee! That will help with the pain I'm having from my uterus cramping! Thanks mom! And the dialog about referring to it as "the curse" is pretty funny, too. All I know, is that based on the way the female reproductive cycle and birth are constructed, God is a man.