Lysol: No greasy aftereffect D;

[write-light.livejournal.com]

Lysol, 1949

Not quite as horrific as the anal problems of a previous ad, but...



Random italicization strikes again.  Which phrase made you clench up?

Comments

[dalaire.livejournal.com]

Oh my, the safeguarding of our "dantiness"--our appealing dainty allure....

[iamnotgemma.livejournal.com]

you're only as desirable as your vagina

[wings-unfurling.livejournal.com]

Because having a personality is overrated! *snark*

[leaf-collector.livejournal.com]

Because when you poke your head in a room vagina, you want to smell lysol :D

[franklanguage.livejournal.com]

Yeah, but I found myself saying, "Yeah, right," in response to "Gentle, non-caustic 'Lysol'."

[shortsweetcynic.livejournal.com]

This. Just...no. I can't. D:

[pikkewyntjie.livejournal.com]

"keep love in bloom" did it for me. Yeah, that and millions of yeast microbes because you killed your body's natural defenses.

I would like to think that most women considered these ads the bullshit they were, but I wonder how many thought their husbands left or abused them because they didn't douche enough.

[wings-unfurling.livejournal.com]

The very idea of douching with Lysol made me snap my legs shut. I know, I know, original intended use and all. But no! Just.. no!

The bit about 'truly cleanses the vaginal canal even in the presence of mucous matter' was enough to terrify me. That mucous matter is supposed to be there!

I'm also vaguely offended in a giggly way at the thought of my vaginal area being considered "dainty".

[hannahsarah.livejournal.com]

Your icon! *dies laughing*

[wings-unfurling.livejournal.com]

Hee! Thanks! Credit is on my user pic page if you want to use it and wouldn't mind crediting. :)

[furnacechant.livejournal.com]

As late as the mid-90s, a survey showed that about a third of Utah women STILL douched with household cleansers such as Lysol or( scarier still) Pinesol. I asked my mother about it and she nodded and explained in the manner she always reserved for slightly embarrassing or indelicate facts that it was a common misconception, especially in her young days, that using these products in this way was a form of contraception. I have read elsewhere that these kind of ads were in fact viewed as a "read between the lines" kind of thing promoting them for exactly that. So I guess they would have been trying to keep themselves "dainty" in the sense of not getting big with child.

[ms-hissyfit.livejournal.com]

That makes the ad even more terryfing (considering that it probably didn't even work). Doubt, Inhibitions, Ignorance, Missgivings? Most definitiely.

[aprilstarchild.livejournal.com]

Before Margaret Sanger started importing diaphragms from Europe, she recommended douching as birth control. That's what was in the original pamphlet that got her arrested--recipes for contraceptive douches.

[elisha-219.livejournal.com]

That's really interesting. When I read through this ad, it prompted me to think about all the other ones I've seen about douching, and I couldn't figure out why there was such a push to promote those products. I've never had any issues with girly stank. I haven't even encountered another woman who had a noticeably offensive odor, and I was beginning to wonder if women in the 40s and 50s bathed at all... but this makes so much more sense now.

[flummoxicated.livejournal.com]

All these ads aimed at women safeguarding their daintiness...why no ads warning men of the dangers of junk funk?

[leaf-collector.livejournal.com]

not gonna lie, "junk funk" made me fall over laughing..

[whoseline_wlsc]

A Lysol douche sounds like it'll hurt. I wouldn't put that stuff anywhere near there!

[emmabovary.livejournal.com]

I vote for bringing back the word "dainty".

[benji.livejournal.com]

Is it just me, or does the picture make that poor lady look like she was cut in half at the torso? I guess that would be a more extreme way to keep your husband in the face of an undainty vagina?

[write-light.livejournal.com]

Apparently, she's sinking into a pool of her own making. /snark

[gatepromise.livejournal.com]

Just...unbelievable. Not only for what we know now about the harm this product would do, but the awful wording of the ad. Tell you what, my man doesn't like the way my hoo ha smells, he can check his own stinky dink.

[fallconsmate.livejournal.com]

*snrch* i'll have you know, i tell TheEngineer such, in just so many words. not that he's commented on my cooter-odor, but large man marinating in his own juices all day? he aint so dainty-fresh either!

*still giggling at stinky dink*

[hannahsarah.livejournal.com]

Seriously! What's up with guys who can't seem to notice that their armpits are able to knock you out at 20 paces? Now THERE is a place that could use some Lysol! (not to mention, the ballsacks)

[willowind76.livejournal.com]

"What, me smell? WHY DON'T YOU APPRECIATE MY MANLY MUSK?! BASK IN THE SIGHT OF MY MAGNIFICENT OILY MANE." (an ex boyfriend's response to that sort of critic, and yes he was insane)

[hannahsarah.livejournal.com]

It's times like those that make me seriously question my sexual orientation. I think most guys smell icky, and I often wonder if it's some kind of pheromone thing in me that is not being receptive to the "mating call scent".

Now, fresh out of the shower and scrubbed clean? That's a whole different story. :-)

[aprilstarchild.livejournal.com]

I have read so many of these ads now that they are more amusing than anything.

[memnet.livejournal.com]

I want to unsee that ad...gah!!!

[1geek-queen.livejournal.com]

"Too late to cry out in anguish!"

Especially when you're being sucked into a Lysol whirlpool!