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In 1931 a man invented the tampon Actually some nurses had invented it before but the man was the one who patented and sold the idea Around the same time some advertising agencies and magazines began to build on the age old idea that the period was a burden something that needed to be hidden and overcome They made you worry about lots of things like leaking and period smells They made you think that it was unclean to have a period somehow and that periods were the opposite of freedom Those advertisers and their clients told us that sticking a piece of cotton inside of us and a disposable pad in our underwear were the only options And they never mentioned the fact that these period products caused so much damage to the Earth with most of them outliving all of us in landfills and the oceans.