D: D: D:

[aesc]

There is not enough WTF in the world for this.


Before there was Summer's Eve, there was...



Again I say: D: D: D:

I mean seriously, anything that strongly suggests you use rubber gloves while applying it to various surfaces should probably not be put inside you. For all I know, Lysol might be a great feminine hygeine product, but still, what's next? Shaving your legs with a straight razor? *cringes*

And then there's this, which makes me so so happy I'm alive right now:



Just... no. No thank you. I like to think the woman's thinking, "Vitamins, and also the fact that soon I will kill you, bury you with quicklime, and run off to Tijuana."

I'll be over here now, doing... something.

Comments

[clear-as-blood.livejournal.com]

Wow. I'm hoping they meant a specific product by the Lysol company, rather than the stuff houses are cleaned with because that's seriously not right.

[aesc.livejournal.com]

I'm hoping so too, but somehow... I think not :/ I've been trying to tell myself that the Lysol has to be diluted (I mean, it's in that teeny bottle, so it seems concentrated), because 200-proof Lysol douche???? Nooooo, take it awaaaay.

[clear-as-blood.livejournal.com]

Well, the note does say to use "correct 'Lysol' solution" not just whatever you have lying around so I'll give them the benefit of a doubt...because the alternative is something I'd rather not think about.

[aesc.livejournal.com]

I think "solution" there is referring to dilution of Lysol in water :/ The MUM site (http://www.mum.org/lysolpre.htm) has a couple pages on the subject, including some ads... one from 1928, and they seem to imply that the Lysol here is the Lysol one uses to clean floors and kill insects.

[clear-as-blood.livejournal.com]

Oh wow, that's disturbing. Also, what the hell? Lysol ≠ spermicide.

[aesc.livejournal.com]

According to this one woman, it might have worked (http://www.mum.org/olnws257.htm#anchor834713). Which makes sense, in a way. Lysol is an anti-organic, and good at killing small things like insects and bacteria, so sperm might fall on the Can Kill list.

[clear-as-blood.livejournal.com]

Sure, it might have worked, but at what cost? I mean, anything that was meant to be a household cleaner really has no business being that close to/in my body.

Also, according to WebMD (http://www.webmd.com/content/article/71/81244.htm): 1930-1960: The most popular female contraceptive is Lysol disinfectant. Ads tout it as a feminine hygiene product, with testimonials from prominent European "doctors." Later investigation by the American Medical Association showed that these experts did not exist. Despite its longstanding popularity, Lysol does not work as a contraceptive.

Did no one ask their own doctor about it?

[sheafrotherdon.livejournal.com]

It was against the law to tell women what to use as a contraceptive for many years. Doctor's prescribed the "rhythm method" if asked, but nothing else - they could be prosecuted for aiding in the distribution of pornographic information / documents / items if they did. Women were forced to rely on informal networks of information and home remedies - an 18th century way of going about things, but without the social support that made midwives the primary caregivers back then.

[clear-as-blood.livejournal.com]

So they couldn’t even ask whether something was safe or not? Well, that sucks to say the least.

[sheafrotherdon.livejournal.com]

The Comstock Law (1873) said - "All persons are prohibited from importing into the United States, from any foreign country, any obscene book, pamphlet, paper, writing, advertisement, circular, print, picture, drawing, or other representation, figure, or image on or of paper or other material, or any cast, instrument, or other article of an immoral nature, or any drug or medicine, or any article whatever, for the prevention of conception, or for causing unlawful abortion." (emphasis mine)

In the 1930s, Margaret Sanger managed to get an exception passed for physicians, but there were variations in state laws, and many doctors didn't *want* to pass on information about contraception (much like those doctors who don't want to prescribe Plan B right now because they feel it abrogates their personal beliefs).

So, yes, many women didn't even ask. It wasn't the polite thing to do, even if they had a doctor who wouldn't turn them in.