🔒 Closed The first time the word period was used on TV in reference to menstruation was 1985

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The first time the word “period” was used on TV in reference to menstruation was 1985​

It came via a line in a Tampax commercial: “Feeling cleaner is more comfortable. It can actually change the way you feel about your period.” And the actor who made pop culture history was Courtney Cox of Friends fame.

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