A short history of modern menstrual products
How did we end up with the tampons and pads we all know?
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Jennifer Kotler graduated with a Ph.D. from Harvard's Organismic and Evolutionary Biology department in 2018. She currently works as a postdoctoral fellow with Prof Steven Pinker, and serves as a lecturer in both Harvard’s Psychology Department and the Department of Human Evolutionary Biology.
photo: Jon Chase/Harvard Staff Photography copyright:© 2018 The President and Fellows of Harvard College
How did we end up with the tampons and pads we all know?