Menstruation and Marriage

(encountered over at the excellent Museum of Menstruation while doing research for my novel. Presented with the most striking quote from this page.)

Don't take advantage of your husband...if you neglect the simple rules that make menstruation a normal time of month, and "retire" for a few days each month, as though you were ill, you're taking advantage of your husband's good nature. He married a full-time wife, not a part-time one, and so you should be active, peppy and cheerful every day.

From the Tampax menstrual tampons educational booklet "it's time you knew...", 1966.