Bibliocrack!
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kageygirlYes, yes, I am bored at work. And then this crossed my desk.
From the omgwtfpolarbear archives, How to Attain and Practice the Ideal Sex Life: Ideal Sex and Love Relations for Every Married Man and Woman, by Dr. J. Rutgers, copyright 1940.
Right there on the title page: "Intended for Circulation among Mature Persons only." Clearly, I've already failed the first test.
(and before y'all start laughing at the bizarre sexual theories of mid-twentieth-century Americans, this is a translation from "Das Sexualleben in seiner biologischen Bedeutung." *winks and waves to all the Germans*)
Flipping through the table of contents:
Part II. SEX HEALTH AND THE PERFECT SEX ACT: Physiology and Practice by Married Lovers
*snickers*
Things I will not read based on the TOC:
Ch.15 The Three Human Excretory Products
-Surprising Effects of Yoghurt and Oil of Turpentine
um, eww.
Random excerpts (which I was going to MSTie, but the transcribing wore me out. Y'all should feel free, though, if you want. *g*):
Ch.27: HOW TO OVERCOME PHYSICAL HINDRANCES TO THE PRACTICE OF THE IDEAL SEX ACT BY MARRIED LOVERS
We have consistently mentioned all kinds of strong obstacles in the case of the seminal secretion, in contradistinction to the secretion of urine. The late beginning of this function, the viscous consistence of the secreted product, the minute orifice of the seminal canal, the spasmodic increase of the muscular antagonism, and finally the accessory stasis of the circulation. All these internal resistances excite us to the highest degree and drive us either to despair or to the height of ecstasy.
There is also a further great difficulty, because to perform this function correctly we need a partner1.
A whole army of difficulties must be surmounted before we can find a person who will put up with our little ways; and what a lot we have to go through before we have reached the point where we can make each other quite happy!
But even at the last moment when happiness seems to be in sight, we find that Nature has placed a hindrance in our way, which although very small is very confusing. According to our views, the genital organs of man and woman are very badly placed. We have already seen (chapter 9) that the genital canal in the male has its opening in the front part of the body, while in the female it is quite underneath. That is not convenient. Besides which, in woman not only is the entrance to the canal hidden between her thighs, but it is further closed by two pairs of lips, like double folding doors.
1. We shall treat of psychic hindrances, such as the frigidity of the woman, or her dislike of everything sexual, in Chapter 57.
Well, now we must go to Chapter 57.
Ch.57: THE ART OF LOVE-MAKING FOR DIFFERENT AGES AND TYPES OF MEN AND WOMEN. IDEAL SEX TECHNIQUES FOR MARRIED LOVERS
But it also happens occasionally that even when plenty of time is given to the wife, many women not only fail to reach the climax, but do not experience the slightest pleasure in the act of coitus.
That this frigidity should be so general in women, is certainly due to the fact that in the female organism the secretory function is much less prominent, and also depends on the many anti-selective influences of remote and ancient origin. Every girl who shows a passionate nature runs the greater danger of being seduced and brought to misery, after which she feels a horror of men; or the risk of venereal disease, or despair or prostitution or even suicide excludes the majority of them from reproduction. Thus they are the victims of man's lack of conscience, and men then grumble at the frigidity of the other women.
This danger that threatens the passionate girl is doubly injurious in the sense that parents and guardians feel themselves called upon in the face of it, to repress her sexuality and to keep her as ignorant as possible of all sexual things; an anti-sexual education that is only too successful in the case of girls on account of the hidden situation of their genitalia. For if these organs are never subjected to local stimulation (see chapter 54) how can local sensation attain its full development?
But on the other hand this local sensitiveness can be greatly dulled through the brutal excitement of masturbation. Whenever women or young girls have come to consult me for loss of sensitiveness, I have asked them: "But when you were a little girl and touched yourself there, did you not feel anything?" and the answer was always that they had done so. In these cases the loss of sensation is not absolute, and improves in time.
For that which has been lost through perverted habits, can be regained through good ones. Meanwhile she must be content with a simply altruistic feeling of pleasure, i.e., with the satisfaction of giving her husband the joy of voluptuous sensations.
And the disappointment of the impotent man arises not so much from the fact that he feels no pleasure himself, for he does not miss it; but rather because he cannot afford his wife the satisfaction that she so greatly longs for, at least not by ordinary coitus. This "non possumus" does not exist for the frigid wife in her relations with her husband; for she demands nothing for herself, she is much more frequently ready to satisfy his desires, she does not even need to be excited and brought into the congestive mood. And this altruistic mutual aid may be most sympathetically felt by both, if the flame of psychic love burns high at the sacrifice.
...
Just goes to show, sometimes the crack gets more potent with age.
Kids, don't try this punctuation at home, either, for indeed it can be found to be of the suck.
From the omgwtfpolarbear archives, How to Attain and Practice the Ideal Sex Life: Ideal Sex and Love Relations for Every Married Man and Woman, by Dr. J. Rutgers, copyright 1940.
Right there on the title page: "Intended for Circulation among Mature Persons only." Clearly, I've already failed the first test.
(and before y'all start laughing at the bizarre sexual theories of mid-twentieth-century Americans, this is a translation from "Das Sexualleben in seiner biologischen Bedeutung." *winks and waves to all the Germans*)
Flipping through the table of contents:
Part II. SEX HEALTH AND THE PERFECT SEX ACT: Physiology and Practice by Married Lovers
*snickers*
Things I will not read based on the TOC:
Ch.15 The Three Human Excretory Products
-Surprising Effects of Yoghurt and Oil of Turpentine
um, eww.
Random excerpts (which I was going to MSTie, but the transcribing wore me out. Y'all should feel free, though, if you want. *g*):
Ch.27: HOW TO OVERCOME PHYSICAL HINDRANCES TO THE PRACTICE OF THE IDEAL SEX ACT BY MARRIED LOVERS
We have consistently mentioned all kinds of strong obstacles in the case of the seminal secretion, in contradistinction to the secretion of urine. The late beginning of this function, the viscous consistence of the secreted product, the minute orifice of the seminal canal, the spasmodic increase of the muscular antagonism, and finally the accessory stasis of the circulation. All these internal resistances excite us to the highest degree and drive us either to despair or to the height of ecstasy.
There is also a further great difficulty, because to perform this function correctly we need a partner1.
A whole army of difficulties must be surmounted before we can find a person who will put up with our little ways; and what a lot we have to go through before we have reached the point where we can make each other quite happy!
But even at the last moment when happiness seems to be in sight, we find that Nature has placed a hindrance in our way, which although very small is very confusing. According to our views, the genital organs of man and woman are very badly placed. We have already seen (chapter 9) that the genital canal in the male has its opening in the front part of the body, while in the female it is quite underneath. That is not convenient. Besides which, in woman not only is the entrance to the canal hidden between her thighs, but it is further closed by two pairs of lips, like double folding doors.
1. We shall treat of psychic hindrances, such as the frigidity of the woman, or her dislike of everything sexual, in Chapter 57.
Well, now we must go to Chapter 57.
Ch.57: THE ART OF LOVE-MAKING FOR DIFFERENT AGES AND TYPES OF MEN AND WOMEN. IDEAL SEX TECHNIQUES FOR MARRIED LOVERS
But it also happens occasionally that even when plenty of time is given to the wife, many women not only fail to reach the climax, but do not experience the slightest pleasure in the act of coitus.
That this frigidity should be so general in women, is certainly due to the fact that in the female organism the secretory function is much less prominent, and also depends on the many anti-selective influences of remote and ancient origin. Every girl who shows a passionate nature runs the greater danger of being seduced and brought to misery, after which she feels a horror of men; or the risk of venereal disease, or despair or prostitution or even suicide excludes the majority of them from reproduction. Thus they are the victims of man's lack of conscience, and men then grumble at the frigidity of the other women.
This danger that threatens the passionate girl is doubly injurious in the sense that parents and guardians feel themselves called upon in the face of it, to repress her sexuality and to keep her as ignorant as possible of all sexual things; an anti-sexual education that is only too successful in the case of girls on account of the hidden situation of their genitalia. For if these organs are never subjected to local stimulation (see chapter 54) how can local sensation attain its full development?
But on the other hand this local sensitiveness can be greatly dulled through the brutal excitement of masturbation. Whenever women or young girls have come to consult me for loss of sensitiveness, I have asked them: "But when you were a little girl and touched yourself there, did you not feel anything?" and the answer was always that they had done so. In these cases the loss of sensation is not absolute, and improves in time.
For that which has been lost through perverted habits, can be regained through good ones. Meanwhile she must be content with a simply altruistic feeling of pleasure, i.e., with the satisfaction of giving her husband the joy of voluptuous sensations.
And the disappointment of the impotent man arises not so much from the fact that he feels no pleasure himself, for he does not miss it; but rather because he cannot afford his wife the satisfaction that she so greatly longs for, at least not by ordinary coitus. This "non possumus" does not exist for the frigid wife in her relations with her husband; for she demands nothing for herself, she is much more frequently ready to satisfy his desires, she does not even need to be excited and brought into the congestive mood. And this altruistic mutual aid may be most sympathetically felt by both, if the flame of psychic love burns high at the sacrifice.
...
Just goes to show, sometimes the crack gets more potent with age.
Kids, don't try this punctuation at home, either, for indeed it can be found to be of the suck.
