@@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 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.
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.
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 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
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.
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.
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.
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 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)
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.
@@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.
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?
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.
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 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".
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.
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.
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.
@@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!😒
@@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.
"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."
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 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...
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.
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......
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.
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...
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?
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 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 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.
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.
😂 not being able to swim for the first couple of days bc youd get chills and a cold.... Yong ladies watching this PLEASE watch current up to date films for accurate information.....there is some underlying toxcicity in addition to inaccuracies be ause this is circa 1953.
