From 1945 to 1951, Dis­ney professional­duced a sequence of edu­ca­tion­al movies to be proven in Amer­i­can colleges. How one can bathe an infant. How to not catch a chilly. Why you shouldn’t dri­ve quick. Dis­ney cov­ered these sub­jects in its edu­ca­tion­al shorts, after which even­tu­al­ly received to the sensitive sub­ject of biol­o­gy and intercourse­u­al­i­ty. If there was ever a com­pa­ny swimsuit­ed to speak about “vagi­nas” within the Nineteen Forties in a fam­i­ly-friend­ly method, it was Dis­ney. Therefore The Sto­ry of Men­stru­a­tion.

The movie runs 10 min­utes, com­bin­ing sci­en­tif­ic details with hygiene suggestions, and it was actu­al­ly com­mis­sioned by the Inter­na­tion­al Cel­lo-Cot­ton Com­pa­ny, the fore­run­ner of Kim­ber­ly-Clark, the mak­er of Kotex prod­ucts. An esti­mat­ed 105 mil­lion stu­dents watched the movie in sex-ed class­es throughout the US. And, accord­ing to Tin­ker Belles and Evil Queens: The Walt Dis­ney Com­pa­ny from the Inside Out, the movie remained a primary­keep in colleges till the Nineteen Sixties. It’s now within the pub­lic area. If you’re completed, you’ll additionally wish to watch Fam­i­ly Plan­ning, Walt Disney’s 1967 Sex Ed Pro­duc­tion, Star­ring Don­ald Duck.

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