Descripción
This grouping contains four booklets from the series entitled "Sex Problems", and provides sexual education on a variety of topics. The booklets are eight pages long and were written by a "T. P. S." in 1923, and promote a "Clean Sex Life both before and after marriage". The author, in his own words is not a "medical man" but rather an ordinary one who has "been through the mill, fooled for a time by the old Stone Age lies and ignorance on Sex matters." Throughout the booklets, he promotes sexual education, and how it should be available to all ages. The booklets also have a religious tone to them, often claiming that certain acts, like masturbation, are evil (and result in men and women who are weak in mind and body), while also asserting that if you go against nature, like using birth control, you will be punished for it. The booklets also clearly have a gender bias, inherent to the times. For example, though it stresses that there shouldn't be sex before marriage, it clearly takes a different tone between men and women who don't follow such tenets. Women are ruined if they have sex before marriage, but men, while they shouldn't, is generally accepted that most men will "sow their wild oats" prior to marriage. The booklets includes statistics on Sexually Transmitted Diseases post WWI, not to trying to prevent men from engaging in sexual intercourse, but to scare them with the possibility of contracting sexually transmitted diseases and shame them with the fact that if they do contract one they will inevitably pass it to their wives and have disease ridden, weak children. 1) "An Unanswerable Argument, The Aim of Sex Truth, Sex Knowledge the Great Need of the Age, The Nation's Peril Sex Diseases". This booklet serves as our introduction to the series and it attempts to convince the reader of a " 'conspiracy of silence' that has made a mystery of the most sacred and beautiful thing of life: The Human Body and its functions." It emphasizes that parents in particular should teach their children sex education at the appropriate age, as while "most boys and girls are clean minded", they have curious minds, and if the proper facts are not taught to them first, they will learn the "evil" way from their older peers who have already been led astray. It provides talking points for how these can be discussed with children, in particular, how to discuss the 'evil' act of masturbation. It then uses the the statistics of 'sex diseases' and 'defects' found in young children (passed to them by their parents who had these 'sex diseases'), as reason one should not let their children be ignorant of sexual education. It ends with, "The Santa Claus story is harmless and it does not fool children very long. But the 'stork brought [the] baby' or, 'Doctor brought [the] baby in a basket' story is criminal. Don't tell them to children." 2) "What a Lady About to Marry Should Know, What a Man About to Marry Should Know, Rules for Wife and Husband." This booklet focuses on the relationship between a man and a wife, and how one can prepare for it. There are two separate sections addressing the first future bride and then the groom. Both stress that they should be examined by a doctor to ensure neither have a disease, but while the man's section stresses that this is to ensure there is no hereditary disease that might effect their future children, the women's section also places a heavy weight on ensuring the man is clean of sexual diseases. The book also has a clear standpoint on children in general, "If you are adverse to having children, don't marry. You will be committing a sin against Nature, that Nature will punish you for. Preventatives of pregnancy are the causes of great many female ailments." It takes this even further to state that abortion is murder, and that anyone party to it, wife, husband, or the doctor performing it, is evil and a murderer. The book then continues on to discusses the relations between a man and women after marriage and that. N° de ref. del artículo 29001881
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