I remember getting my first period at 10 and being absolutely terrified. Even back in 2014 neither school nor the few grown ups I felt I could talk to were much help. Videos like this exact uploads and similar Always films like this were all the help I had. Such bittersweet nostalgia. Edit: omg, my friends and I always called our periods the curse! I think I got it from this video.
@@kringles65 why the need to insult someone? I consider these films to be more educational than some that are around today. Ok we are we more aware now of the do's and don'ts and sanitary products have came along away but this leaves out the flaff that today's girls are taught.
I've heard of many terms when it comes to describing our periods like "Mr. Monthly Visitor", "On the rag", and "Time of the month." But I've never heard that term before.
This was my education. My mom said, "You're going to see a movie tomorrow, pay attention". It waa ominously called, the movie. The boys knew something was up and waited for the girls to leave the movie. They wanted details. We left with a booklet and an elastic belt. Very strange.
I heard from a modern day Los Angles City School's nurse that the boys saw a film about boy's and girl's differences. But when the girls saw the same film she said the girls were terrible! Laughing and making lewd rowdy comments about the boy's genitals. Times change
Anyone old enough to remember the booklets that Modess and Kotex published to educate girls and promote their feminine hygiene products? I had one called "Growing Up and Liking It" by Modess.
I had my first period at 13 years too and when it first started my mum was like “ wow this is great news you are a woman now” we even had a celebration like it was a good thing lol.
Did you get to stay home from school for a few days, faking cramps, laying in bed with a hot water bottle on your tummy, waited on like a princess? No? You weren't Catholic, I guess.
I was 13 too. I had been prepared by a film at school and a rudimentary talk with my mother. My mom had no big reaction when I told her I had started. Thankfully I was at home and woke up one morning having started.
My younger sister had hers at age 14. Our parents were divorced, and we were staying with my dad and his wife, an effusive Italian-American woman. She said, "Praise the Lord!" when my sis told her.
I was 10 years old when I got mine and I thought that I was gonna die! But my mom sat me down and talked to me and my aunt came over and talked to me (my aunt was a nurse at the time)
In the 50´s it was not possible to buy tampons for girls. Most of the people thought that tampons are not weareble for virgins. All you could get were sanitary napkins, and this sanitary napkins were so big that everybody could have seen it, if you are just wearing a Bikini ore Swimsuit. That´s one reason why the girls were told not to swim during their period.
When Molly asked why periods are once per month, her mother said, “I guess it’s just part of being a woman.” You’d think a woman with two kids would give a better answer.
My college astronomy professor said that there was evidence that a woman's period is pre-programmed when she is conceived based on what the moon is doing in its orbit around the Earth. An interesting theory, as both the moon and menstruation have a 30-day cycle. But apparently that theory has since been disproved.
You'd be surprised. My mom was legitimately perplexed as to why our young, unfixed beagle would hump our legs -- even hers. "Why is he doing that?!", she'd exclaim. This woman had already had THREE CHILDREN. She wasn't kidding, either -- pretending not to know.
FUN FACT: The cycles of a group of women -- say, all the women in a dormitory, or the older kids at summer camp -- will synchronize to within about a day of one another after they've been around each other for just a couple of months. It's believed this is an ancient biological adaptation that evolved to prevent excessive competition of females for mates, and vice versa, which could damage the social unit and prevent it from thriving (reproducing optimally).
This film is quite modern considering it was made in 1953, except for the taboo about swimming. There's nothing wrong with swimming when you've got your period, it's just that those huge pads used to get waterlogged if you went swimming, and they were really visible under your bikini or one piece.
Most dads (these days, anyway) had co-ed sexual education classes, and knew more than the basic line about it being a natural normal part of female reproductive function. I had to tell my dad, because even though I had packed hygiene supplies, I was visiting him 3,000 miles away from home and Mom. He's a practical man, and was very laid back about it besides for making sure I had enough supplies. I thought Molly's dad's reaction was a little corny, mostly sweet, and not at all creepy. It is, after all, a natural function and evidence of progress through puberty. Of course, nowadays Buzzfeed videos would feature a father-daughter empowerment craft with Molly painting chocolate chip cookies with her own menses blood. THAT'S not normal at all.
That's NOT a normal man. That's a man child. Normal "MEN" readily and agreeably will go to the store and purchase feminine hygiene products for their women. I never flinched and never balked. Gladly I would and will tell a clerk, YES, I HAVE A GIRLFRIEND that I care about. Maybe your choice of men has been, somewhat lacking.
2:06 - this is a classic case of “breaking the 4th wall”. The first three walls being the two sides and the background. When the 4th wall is broken, an actor directly addresses the audience. It’s a kind of existential exercise. Wikipedia says, “The method of breaking the fourth wall in literature is a meralepsis (the transgression of narrative levels), which is a technique often used in metafiction. The metafiction genre occurs when a character within a literary work acknowledges the reality that they are in fact a fictitious being. The use of the fourth wall in literature can be traced back as far as The Canterbury Tales and Don Quixote.
Ewww no. Acting like a girl is incapable of doing anything because she’s having her period, and saying “sit up straight” as if that has an affect on cramps.. 😖
@@SamiLo2 Has to do with fertility. Girls who slump a lot tend to get a tipped uterus and are less likely to conceive. That happened to our next door neighbor. They were childless.
I suspect that for many young people, it was. Kids are thrown into sexuality far too young now, and are pressured to rack up points for 'scoring' at younger and younger ages. Girls feel pressured to grow up too quickly, rather than, as Molly's sister reassured her, understanding that we develop at different ages. The fun was more wholesome. Nowadays, it's 'cool' to be jaded and blase about the world long before we should be.
I don't think I was this calm or enthusiastic when I started my first period. My mom had told me everything, but I completely forgot it and I freaked out. My mom said when I told her, "Gabby, it's your period, remember?" It's kind of funny how we read about periods and talk about them and then forget everything when they come lol.
See how much you can remember when you collapse to the floor in a pool of blood. Today you skip the Miss Jensen thing, just call 911. Can you remember 9-1-1?
My stepdaughter came to me when she had her first period. She wasn't close to her mom. Now that I think about it, her mom wasn't close to anyone. She had her own special "curse".
@@JoeKaye-hn5dt well i had to tell them they seen blood on my pants and i had to explain to them what it was i was not going to lie to them so they were okay with that.
Hmm. I never got 'the talk'. When I told my mother she just said "oh" and handed me a belt and pad. Then I bought my own after that. At 13. Many years ago. I would have loved to have a mother like this one.
Us boys were chased out to the playground. Afterwards you girls were all acting like little princesses and had these calendar books with a pink rose on the cover. Was that Von Steuben? And was the girl that fainted Suzanne?
I found out about periods when I was 7 after I asked my mum why she had 'diapers' oh well, it saved me a lot of confusion when I actually got my period.
@@mikezylstra7514 Guess you've never seen sanitary pads before. Just about all of them these days have tape on them so you can stick them to underpants instead of using safety pins or a sanitary belt.
Ms Jensen was ahead of her time in a way. Depending on the particular community and the mothers’ and grandmothers’ particular views, some wouldn’t have approved of the girls trying internal protection until they were older and maybe married. But the school nurse had the wisdom to know that loss of virginity occurs with intercourse- not by penetration with tampons that can easily be inserted without affecting the hymen (which also varies in thickness or even in presence). She knew that physical comfort matters most.
6:50 Funny how nobody mentions that another reason it's not a good idea to go swimming when you have your period is you'll put blood in the swimming pool! I mean, YUCK...
"Miss Jensen, the napkins my sister lent me have this adhesive on them, sticky side up. Do I have to shave myself? I get what it's for, but it hurts like hell when I try to peel them off."
@@Juliaflo telling it how it is is much better than beating around the bush. They never once explained uterus lining shedding, hormones, none of that. Girls should know what their bodies are doing.
I got my period at twelve and suffered until menopause because I had uterine fibroids that no doctor could seem to find or would remove. I finally got them out after fifty and my uterus went with them!😒
Fun fact: until 1955 nobody was sure exactly how babies were conceived. They knew it had something to do with the egg and the sperm, but exactly what occurred until science developed to the point where they could see how it all went.
I don’t remember male sperm being mentioned. I thought that you ovulated in the daytime when you were single and the egg fell through the uterus. When you got married, you magically started ovulating at night when in bed and the egg fell onto the side wall of the uterus and implanted and grew into a baby.
Oh I think Mom's neat. She reminds me of my mom's friend down the street. Classy lady very cool calm & collected. I used to watch Mickey Mouse Club (first run) at their house.
I never wanted it and noone told me what to do. I'm glad for it! I wanted to run screaming from embarrassment. Never wanted a bra either. What would catching cold from the pool do? It's more like I don't want to bleed in someone's pool.
And I'm not a woman - so maybe this is a dumb comment.....but, it seem like, if you got into a pool. wearing a pad that is absorbent - wouldn't it swell to an uncomfortable and awkward size ? It seems to me that this would be more embarrassing.
@@urbanurchin5930 Lmao. The image ur giving my head is killing me! Lol. That would be hilarous to do as a joke. I wouldn't wear a pad and go swimming. You can do it with a tampon if its only light bleeding going on.
Coz you might "catch cold" (whatever that means - catching a common cold has nothing to do with *being* cold, but they always thought it did, in those days).
@@lorig7077 I'm guessing they either threw that in as a general health "tip" or they thought women were somehow "weaker" to germs at that time of the month. This is back in the day when people thought mustard plasters cured chest complaints, for example......
The general medical information is accurate but the do’s and don’t’s are hilarious and have no medical fact to them, just old wives tales. Funny how they combine the two.
I remember those belts! They tended to act like butt floss. Thankfully "New Freedom" pads were just coming out when I started. They were flushable at that time, which was great if you had dogs in the house that would want to raid the trash.
@@FilmerOfBobcats The ones with the metal clasps were bad enough but there were also belts with pins instead. They were okay until the pin decided to open...
Boy the pads have changed. They not only had belts to hold them up. And they called them Sanitary Napkins. Now they are called Maxi Pads and have sticky backing on them to hold them into place. And now they aren’t called Sanitary Napkins they are called Maxi Pads. They sure have changed!
I find something strange about me and also my mother. We both started having our periods on our 14th birthdays. But our birthdays are both the same month but different days. Does anyone know if that is a hormonal thing or genetic thing? Or is it just a coincidence? I have been wondering this for 14 years so an answer to my question would be great😀
I was glad I started my period a few weeks after school let out for summer vacation. Anyone catch that about Molly’s mom leaving her gloves at the nurses house.😂🤨🤔
Old sanitary towels like in this film were much better than modern ones that are too short, and are not very sticky and fall off. Why have they gone downhill?
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I remember getting my first period at 10 and being absolutely terrified. Even back in 2014 neither school nor the few grown ups I felt I could talk to were much help. Videos like this exact uploads and similar Always films like this were all the help I had. Such bittersweet nostalgia.
Edit: omg, my friends and I always called our periods the curse! I think I got it from this video.
You really needed the backing of a full stringed orchestra to grow up in these days !
Notice how calm mature and rational they are on such a sensitive topic
In my school we never were educated on how to insert a negro man safely into our anus. I had to learn from a jazz musician
Why do I love watching these
Sameeeeee
Me tooo
mature wholesome innocent > pure
Because they were made when people had morals and values unlike today. I love to watch them as well!
same for me hehehe
The 50’s has educated me more than today’s education system ever has.
YOU MUST BE ASLEEP,IDIOT.
@@kringles65 why the need to insult someone? I consider these films to be more educational than some that are around today. Ok we are we more aware now of the do's and don'ts and sanitary products have came along away but this leaves out the flaff that today's girls are taught.
I thought the same thing.
It’s true 😂😂😂
Exactly that's what i also think
I can’t stop watching these old videos.
ME TOO LOL
These videos are gems - the styles , cars , and behaviors are fantastic. It's kinda of a sweet film for dealing w/ such a major change in life.
My mother was a teen in the 1950s and her classmates referred to their periods as their "friend." This was because it meant they weren't pregnant. LOL
We often also called it our friend but we never used it because of that reason. It just wasn’t polite to mention the word period.
I've heard of many terms when it comes to describing our periods like "Mr. Monthly Visitor", "On the rag", and "Time of the month." But I've never heard that term before.
I got news for you: that means your mom's a ho.
I call mine my friend all the time albeit for a different reason I just think it sounds better
Interesting 🤔 way of putting it
This was my education. My mom said, "You're going to see a movie tomorrow, pay attention". It waa ominously called, the movie. The boys knew something was up and waited for the girls to leave the movie. They wanted details. We left with a booklet and an elastic belt. Very strange.
I heard from a modern day Los Angles City School's nurse that the boys saw a film about boy's and girl's differences. But when the girls saw the same film she said the girls were terrible! Laughing and making lewd rowdy comments about the boy's genitals. Times change
When I was in the hospital for appendicitis, in 1983, I had to use those old fashioned belts that you attach the menstrual pad to. I'm not sure why.
The same thing happened to me they gave us something to cover the Phablet with so that the boys wouldn't see those were the days
These girls would be in their 80s now.
The youngest would be about 81 today
My mother was about this girl's age, in 1953.
I'd still rail Molly
Anyone old enough to remember the booklets that Modess and Kotex published to educate girls and promote their feminine hygiene products? I had one called "Growing Up and Liking It" by Modess.
"You're gonna grow up and you're gonna LIKE IT! dammit.
I had my first period at 13 years too and when it first started my mum was like “ wow this is great news you are a woman now” we even had a celebration like it was a good thing lol.
Did you get to stay home from school for a few days, faking cramps, laying in bed with a hot water bottle on your tummy, waited on like a princess? No? You weren't Catholic, I guess.
I've heard that in some cultures they have a celebration when a girl starts her first period.
I was 13 too. I had been prepared by a film at school and a rudimentary talk with my mother. My mom had no big reaction when I told her I had started. Thankfully I was at home and woke up one morning having started.
My younger sister had hers at age 14. Our parents were divorced, and we were staying with my dad and his wife, an effusive Italian-American woman. She said, "Praise the Lord!" when my sis told her.
It is! It means we can become mothers!
Older sister Jeannie looks like a 35-year-old housewife. Teens in '50s educational films always looked 20 years older than what they were portraying.
They just looked older than kiddies do these days.
@@mikezylstra7514 I do not think most of these teens were played by actual teens, though. Some of these people have got to be at least late 20s.
They probably were her mom looked like she was pushing 60👵🏻
That's hollywierd for you, not just the 50s either, the saved by the beel kids were all way older the high-school when playing it
Saved by the bell, I meant
Thats why Molly didnt go square dancing with me!
I absolutey love this era, the 50's! Things were handled with such respect and descency! What happened to us???????
44skins We decided that some equality and dignity for all was better than a lot of dignity for some.
Feminists happened
I agree..We're messed up.
@@squid1313 Agreed.
Liberals happened to us.
I was 10 years old when I got mine and I thought that I was gonna die! But my mom sat me down and talked to me and my aunt came over and talked to me (my aunt was a nurse at the time)
“It’s not a good idea to swim on the first 2-3 days in your period”
Me: 🤦♀️
That's absolute nonsense anyway.
In the 50´s it was not possible to buy tampons for girls. Most of the people thought that tampons are not weareble for virgins. All you could get were sanitary napkins, and this sanitary napkins were so big that everybody could have seen it, if you are just wearing a Bikini ore Swimsuit. That´s one reason why the girls were told not to swim during their period.
I can't swim on the 2nd and 3rd day because I have heavy bleeding even when I'm wearing a tampon.
@@Skipper86 I had that problem too.
@@SarahEmerald14 yeah that makes a lot more sense
When Molly asked why periods are once per month, her mother said, “I guess it’s just part of being a woman.” You’d think a woman with two kids would give a better answer.
She probably didn't know. Different species cycle at different rates.
My college astronomy professor said that there was evidence that a woman's period is pre-programmed when she is conceived based on what the moon is doing in its orbit around the Earth. An interesting theory, as both the moon and menstruation have a 30-day cycle. But apparently that theory has since been disproved.
You'd be surprised. My mom was legitimately perplexed as to why our young, unfixed beagle would hump our legs -- even hers. "Why is he doing that?!", she'd exclaim. This woman had already had THREE CHILDREN. She wasn't kidding, either -- pretending not to know.
FUN FACT: The cycles of a group of women -- say, all the women in a dormitory, or the older kids at summer camp -- will synchronize to within about a day of one another after they've been around each other for just a couple of months. It's believed this is an ancient biological adaptation that evolved to prevent excessive competition of females for mates, and vice versa, which could damage the social unit and prevent it from thriving (reproducing optimally).
@@roberthaworth8991 As a woman who has spent most of her life in groups of women, I can say that this is not true.
I just love these dames!
I feel like back then people where more chill then todayy
This film is quite modern considering it was made in 1953, except for the taboo about swimming. There's nothing wrong with swimming when you've got your period, it's just that those huge pads used to get waterlogged if you went swimming, and they were really visible under your bikini or one piece.
This has changed after the 50’s. You can exercise now and do the other things on your period. Personal products has changed too.
Yes, but no square dancing.
@@sambda Or horseback riding - not even side saddle. And never wear white pants.
WAIT! You mean to tell me that SKATING is acceptable when your dropping eggs? 🤣🤣🤣 As a straight man, I didn't know that! 🤣🤣🤣🤣
Golly! The mother's discussion is outstanding.
I kept waiting for the dad to shudder or run screaming from the room. Like a normal man.
Most dads (these days, anyway) had co-ed sexual education classes, and knew more than the basic line about it being a natural normal part of female reproductive function. I had to tell my dad, because even though I had packed hygiene supplies, I was visiting him 3,000 miles away from home and Mom. He's a practical man, and was very laid back about it besides for making sure I had enough supplies. I thought Molly's dad's reaction was a little corny, mostly sweet, and not at all creepy. It is, after all, a natural function and evidence of progress through puberty. Of course, nowadays Buzzfeed videos would feature a father-daughter empowerment craft with Molly painting chocolate chip cookies with her own menses blood. THAT'S not normal at all.
I’m gonna shudder too and run when my sister lays her first egg.
@@pennypay1 ROTFLMAO!!!!!!
My poor dad was there when I got my first period and as soon as my mother got home he ran screaming from the room and hid for three days
That's NOT a normal man. That's a man child. Normal "MEN" readily and agreeably will go to the store and purchase feminine hygiene products for their women. I never flinched and never balked. Gladly I would and will tell a clerk, YES, I HAVE A GIRLFRIEND that I care about. Maybe your choice of men has been, somewhat lacking.
Love these old movies! "The Curse" lol
Right?? I love how Ms. Jensen says to be our most attractive selves while I'm here in my shorts and a t-shirt with messy hair wanting to die lol.
That's what my mother called it. 😅
2:06 - this is a classic case of “breaking the 4th wall”. The first three walls being the two sides and the background. When the 4th wall is broken, an actor directly addresses the audience. It’s a kind of existential exercise. Wikipedia says, “The method of breaking the fourth wall in literature is a meralepsis (the transgression of narrative levels), which is a technique often used in metafiction. The metafiction genre occurs when a character within a literary work acknowledges the reality that they are in fact a fictitious being. The use of the fourth wall in literature can be traced back as far as The Canterbury Tales and Don Quixote.
THIS IS EXACTLY HOW MOTHERS SHOULD TALK WITH THEIR DAUGHTERS ABOUT WOMAN ISSUES
I agree
Including referring to it as "the curse"
Ewww no. Acting like a girl is incapable of doing anything because she’s having her period, and saying “sit up straight” as if that has an affect on cramps.. 😖
@@SamiLo2 Has to do with fertility. Girls who slump a lot tend to get a tipped uterus and are less likely to conceive. That happened to our next door neighbor. They were childless.
@@mikezylstra7514My girlfriend has the best posture and we have no kids. Of course it's probably because of all the abortions.
It all seem more fun and exiting then in the time we live now.
I suspect that for many young people, it was. Kids are thrown into sexuality far too young now, and are pressured to rack up points for 'scoring' at younger and younger ages. Girls feel pressured to grow up too quickly, rather than, as Molly's sister reassured her, understanding that we develop at different ages. The fun was more wholesome. Nowadays, it's 'cool' to be jaded and blase about the world long before we should be.
Ikr!
By the way Molly, don't forget to stop at checkout
and take care of that $40 office visit co-pay.
🤣🤣🤣
And if you stop having your period for 3 months, and start getting a fat stomach, be sure to come to me and I will take you to the convent
I don't think I was this calm or enthusiastic when I started my first period. My mom had told me everything, but I completely forgot it and I freaked out. My mom said when I told her, "Gabby, it's your period, remember?" It's kind of funny how we read about periods and talk about them and then forget everything when they come lol.
See how much you can remember when you collapse to the floor in a pool of blood. Today you skip the Miss Jensen thing, just call 911. Can you remember 9-1-1?
My mom told me everything ahead of time about menstruation. So when I got my first period I was excited about it.
My stepdaughter came to me when she had her first period. She wasn't close to her mom. Now that I think about it, her mom wasn't close to anyone. She had her own special "curse".
I told my daughters about periods when they were five.
You told them that blood would come out of their bottoms? Yikes! How many hung themselves?
That is a little early
😱
it’s never too early to teach your kids in my opinion. my mom told me about periods when i was 8 and i had my first period when i was 9
@@JoeKaye-hn5dt well i had to tell them they seen blood on my pants and i had to explain to them what it was i was not going to lie to them so they were okay with that.
Holy cow I forgot about the sanitary belt.
And I suppose everyone noticed that this film was written, produced and directed by MEN!!!
I'm a straight man and I noticed. I also noticed that skating is out of the question on Saturday nights when you start dropping Eggs. 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
So? I’m an old woman and I love men!
And to wear your prettiest dress…. Sound advice.
I like how at around 9:00 the drawing shows that the fallopian tubes are not connected to the ovaries.
This is the best menstruation education.A goos summary but main points were given. So classy and qualified.
Hmm. I never got 'the talk'. When I told my mother she just said "oh" and handed me a belt and pad. Then I bought my own after that. At 13. Many years ago. I would have loved to have a mother like this one.
My mom gave me pamphlets from Modess and Kotex when I was 9 years-old. I actually started at 14.
What is the belt for?!?😮😢😮😢
The dad had me cringe
LOL! 😂 The dad is just realizing that his babygirl is growing up.
Jeannie looks the same age as mom.
Jeannie already had kids at the house. The studio called her up and needed a favor. The original actress was out for the day b/c of The Curse. 🤣🤣🤣🤣
I actually love that they got the dad involved. Seems progressive for the 50s
good thing my mom gave me the whole talk at nine cuz i got mine at 10
Same here. Back then they started a little later than us.
@@hannahbg1852 I had just turned 10.
same my mom gave me the period talk when i was 9 cuz she started at 9
This is the movie I saw in 6th grade. One girl fainted
Us boys were chased out to the playground. Afterwards you girls were all acting like little princesses and had these calendar books with a pink rose on the cover.
Was that Von Steuben? And was the girl that fainted Suzanne?
"Her teacher was sick one day and asked me to take her class" 😅😅😅 Poor Molly.
This is better than a Xanax
I was 14 when I started.The 4rth of July! LOL!!
I started mine when I was 12. I’ve always been regular and I wonder if I’m just weird. I was with my dad at the time...
I found out about periods when I was 7 after I asked my mum why she had 'diapers' oh well, it saved me a lot of confusion when I actually got my period.
The girl sitting next to Molly on the left has a slight resemblance of Drew Barrymore.
I started at 13. By 15 I wanted it to stop!
Ik I’m super late but like why is everyone in this more open then my own mom now hahah
"Well wadya know"...... what great insight.
Heartbreaking. I was there. Farewell America.
Oh, stop. 🙄
Back when school had a real nurse
I remember having to turn my head a cough each year
Molly's parents look 20 years too old. ..lol
Her sister's pretty hot though.
8:39 the girl sitting in front of Molly looks a little like Drew Barrymore
I hated those belts what a pain putting the ends in
Thankfully Just before I started they came out with the first Stayfree pads that were peel and stick.
@@julienielsen3746 How on earth did you remove those? Did you have to shave yourself first? I mean it sounds like a good idea but ouch!
@@mikezylstra7514 Guess you've never seen sanitary pads before. Just about all of them these days have tape on them so you can stick them to underpants instead of using safety pins or a sanitary belt.
@@julienielsen3746 Stick them to undies? Oh! I thought you stick them on like a bandaid.
Are you...for real?
Wow. 11 days after Bob’s Burgers’ premiere this video came out.
Glad we don’t need special belts anymore!
Guys wear those belts nowadays at gay bars.
Ms Jensen was ahead of her time in a way. Depending on the particular community and the mothers’ and grandmothers’ particular views, some wouldn’t have approved of the girls trying internal protection until they were older and maybe married. But the school nurse had the wisdom to know that loss of virginity occurs with intercourse- not by penetration with tampons that can easily be inserted without affecting the hymen (which also varies in thickness or even in presence). She knew that physical comfort matters most.
@@mikezylstra7514 😂😅
I hated the belts
The egg cell does not disappear!! It comes out with all the menstrual material.
And then we find the egg so we can put it in a basket
You mean I could have gotten out of SQUARE DANCING! 😅
6:50 Funny how nobody mentions that another reason it's not a good idea to go swimming when you have your period is you'll put blood in the swimming pool! I mean, YUCK...
Not when you are using a cup. It's the best invention ever.
@@luiseschneidet8193 did they have cups back then?
We were taught(1960's) that the flow stopped once you submerged in water. i found this to be true for me.
It's illegal to swim when you come sick in Sydney because it draws sharks.
Bevis and Butthead said babies come out of the butt.
Beautiful
Next, I'm going to watch the old films about marriage: see what I missed.
Why do they say golly so much
Cuz it’s the 50s!
Or did you miss hear it from the word molly
They said it twice lol or maybe more because there is ages left in the vid lol
Because good girls didn’t say f#u k.
The same way we say “bruh” “period” “word” and other slang words within our basic vocabulary that are popular in our generation
Best not to do anything that bounces you around a lot! 😂😂. Showering, bathing and dancing is fine but best avoid square dancing! 😂
"Miss Jensen, the napkins my sister lent me have this adhesive on them, sticky side up. Do I have to shave myself? I get what it's for, but it hurts like hell when I try to peel them off."
Pads didn’t have adhesive then. We used a sanitary belt to hold them in place.
"Yes Molly, you not only should shave for you pad, but it's a good idea to shave for your bf and your husband when he tells you to". 🤣🤣🤣🤣
Seriously? You realize the adhesive sticks to the underwear… 🤦🏻♀️
well, now we know what killed square dancing 😟
I'm TELLING you!!! It was the Dropping Of The Eggs that did it!!🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Oh, the 1950s, when life was much simpler than today...
...Today, you have to tell the whole 'kit and kaboodle' because things have changed.
@@Juliaflo telling it how it is is much better than beating around the bush. They never once explained uterus lining shedding, hormones, none of that. Girls should know what their bodies are doing.
They would have been straight up racist to me
Simpler? Yeah right 🤣 only for white straight males, little boy
I got my period at twelve and suffered until menopause because I had uterine fibroids that no doctor could seem to find or would remove. I finally got them out after fifty and my uterus went with them!😒
Fun fact: until 1955 nobody was sure exactly how babies were conceived. They knew it had something to do with the egg and the sperm, but exactly what occurred until science developed to the point where they could see how it all went.
I don’t remember male sperm being mentioned. I thought that you ovulated in the daytime when you were single and the egg fell through the uterus. When you got married, you magically started ovulating at night when in bed and the egg fell onto the side wall of the uterus and implanted and grew into a baby.
Are you kidding..people knew how babies were conceived way before the fifties!..I believe it was around 1875 that scientists figured it out.
@@eleanorfowser4705 Are you from Alabama?
@@mikezylstra7514 no
The pressing question still remains....Molly's mother forgot her gloves at the gym teachers home the night before.....hmmmm, how did that happen?
the mom is creepy
Oh I think Mom's neat. She reminds me of my mom's friend down the street. Classy lady very cool calm & collected. I used to watch Mickey Mouse Club (first run) at their house.
Wow. We weren't allowed to say "golly" in our house!
Some chicks don't start till they are 17? I didn't know that.
The nurse breaks the fourth wall!!
I was 12 when I started my period.
Me too
I never wanted it and noone told me what to do. I'm glad for it! I wanted to run screaming from embarrassment. Never wanted a bra either. What would catching cold from the pool do? It's more like I don't want to bleed in someone's pool.
I think that's the REAL reason. They were talking euphemistically. In the ocean it draws sharks.
And I'm not a woman - so maybe this is a dumb comment.....but, it seem like, if you got into a pool. wearing a pad that is
absorbent - wouldn't it swell to an uncomfortable and awkward size ? It seems to me that this would be more embarrassing.
@@urbanurchin5930 Lmao. The image ur giving my head is killing me! Lol. That would be hilarous to do as a joke. I wouldn't wear a pad and go swimming. You can do it with a tampon if its only light bleeding going on.
Why do you have to dry your hair quickly when menstruating?
Coz you might "catch cold" (whatever that means - catching a common cold has nothing to do with *being* cold, but they always thought it did, in those days).
@@sambda But what did they have to do with menstruating? Maybe I misunderstood that part
@@lorig7077 I'm guessing they either threw that in as a general health "tip" or they thought women were somehow "weaker" to germs at that time of the month. This is back in the day when people thought mustard plasters cured chest complaints, for example......
1953: Molly Grows Up
2023: Harvey Has Periods
The general medical information is accurate but the do’s and don’t’s are hilarious and have no medical fact to them, just old wives tales. Funny how they combine the two.
Love to watch
I cringed so hard when I saw that giant pad and belt
You had every right to cringe, trust me. I had to wear those things after getting my period in 1959.
I remember those belts! They tended to act like butt floss. Thankfully "New Freedom" pads were just coming out when I started. They were flushable at that time, which was great if you had dogs in the house that would want to raid the trash.
@@FilmerOfBobcats The ones with the metal clasps were bad enough but there were also belts with pins instead. They were okay until the pin decided to open...
@@miriambucholtz9315 they were better then the pads that dont stick
@@patriciajustice9795 I don't know. The belts only held onto the tabs so the pad could also slip and slide under the right conditions.
Molly is obviously raised by her grandparents.
Boy the pads have changed. They not only had belts to hold them up.
And they called them
Sanitary Napkins.
Now they are called
Maxi Pads and have sticky backing on them to hold them into place.
And now they aren’t called Sanitary Napkins they are called Maxi Pads.
They sure have changed!
Wow I didn't know this (10 minute mark onwards) and I'm a mother of 2 😣
I find something strange about me and also my mother. We both started having our periods on our 14th birthdays. But our birthdays are both the same month but different days. Does anyone know if that is a hormonal thing or genetic thing? Or is it just a coincidence? I have been wondering this for 14 years so an answer to my question would be great😀
Definitely a coincidence. Cool anecdote though.
People talked funny in the 50s
I was glad I started my period a few weeks after school let out for summer vacation. Anyone catch that about Molly’s mom leaving her gloves at the nurses house.😂🤨🤔
I missed the part about running Tough Mudders. At least I know to get rinse off in warm water, LoL.
6:35 It's not a good idea to do so at all.
I laughed when teacher said "bosom" LOL
That was the polite word.
That young girl is 15years older than me
Wow so watchable.😀
Old sanitary towels like in this film were much better than modern ones that are too short, and are not very sticky and fall off. Why have they gone downhill?
50 years before I was born
I'd like to have been a fly on the wall when this was being written. I bet it was a real sausagefest.
i am the only one who love 1953buti was born in the 2000s ugh
If you weren't white it was hell.
Is this actually from the 50s?😳
Yes, but they also showed it in the 60s.
RIP Molly