“We’ll let the market decide.”
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They are misrepresenting those Lysol ads. It was being promoted as an abortifant but the language was shaded.
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Chuck Close, who makes large photo-realistic portraits, also has prosopagnosia.
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Well, there wasn’t a Madison Avenue as we knew it until, what, the 1950s? And from listening to my dad and reading different histories on the advertising and politics (separate and blended), I’d have to say that the GOP rolled over and submitted around Ike’s time…wait…no Dewey, maybe? Anyhow, for your listening enjoyment:
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His delivery is marvelous. My favorite is the phone call from Walter Raleigh.
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I was wondering what my favorite POTUS (NO NOT THE ONE WHO SAYS HE IS!) had to say about socialism, and this was the first result that Google gave me:
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That’s a great quote.
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I think what really killed the use of the word was the fact it was included by the Russians in the name of their empire…er, republic.
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If you have access:
Selling Sexual Certainty? Advertising Lysol as a Contraceptive in the United States and Canada, 1919—1939
Author(s): KRISTIN HALL
Source: Enterprise & Society , MARCH 2013, Vol. 14, No. 1 (MARCH 2013), pp. 71-98 Published by: Cambridge University Press
https://www.jstor.org/stable/23701648?seq=1#metadata_info_tab_contents
“Within this context it is not surprising that Lysol’s feminine hygiene ads focused on beauty and youth, especially as reflected in one’s skin and face. To promote a desire to maintain attractiveness for the benefit of their husbands, they asserted that female beauty deteriorated with time and that worry accelerated this process. Women who did not use Lysol would suffer anxiety about becoming pregnant, leading to premature aging of the facial skin. In contrast, Lysol users would be free from worry and would maintain their youthful beauty because they were using an effective, dependable contraceptive.”
But effective and dependable, it was not.
Finally, Lysol’s gynecologists underscored the dangers of asking female friends or family members for advice on the subject. Historians Beth Light and Ruth Roach Pierson insist that in the years leading up to the interwar period, women often gained knowledge about contraception from female kin.69 These advertisements challenged this practice, noting that women “take almost anybody’s word. . .a neighbor’s, an afternoon bridge partner’s” when discussing feminine hygiene, yet " [i]t is not safe to accept the counsels of the tea-table, or the advice of a well-meaning, but uninformed relative or friend."70 The effort to stop woman-to-woman communication on the topic of birth control may also have been aimed at keeping customers from finding out that Lysol was not as effective as claimed…
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I first read about Coke as a contraceptive when I was a teen in “Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex* (*but were afraid to ask)”, the first edition. It was updated in 1999. I’d like to see the 2nd edition. And Dr. Reuben is still with us!
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I did too, and I’ve also read it’s a stupid idea because if bubbles pass through the lining of the uterus into the bloodstream it may cause an air embolism and stroke. Don’t know if the latter has ever happened, though.
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The carbonic acid that used to be used, and has since been replaced by phosphoric acid, was also mentioned as a component in the contraceptive effect. NOTE: Wait, wait…my science is all wrong on this…
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How about just straight low pH phosphoric acid? Avoid the bubble problem. 
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Hmmm…I could’ve sworn that it was “carbolic” acid that Dr. Reuben mentioned. I really do need a copy of the 2nd edition of EYtKAS* (*bwata).
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They drink it now. It’s part of the ionic interplay of CO_2 in solution, right?
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It’s actually carbonic acid, which results from the reaction of water with the added CO2:
The phosphoric acid is added as an ingredient for “tartness,” I think.
And I am addicted to the stuff, sigh.
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