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- From: sheaffer@netcom.com (Robert Sheaffer)
- Subject: Re: sex in the good ol' days
- Message-ID: <1992Nov16.172842.16463@netcom.com>
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- References: <1992Nov15.182653.10521@midway.uchicago.edu>
- Date: Mon, 16 Nov 1992 17:28:42 GMT
- Lines: 78
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- In article <1992Nov15.182653.10521@midway.uchicago.edu> mec6@midway.uchicago.edu writes:
- >
- >This is a set of instructions to the new bride, written by the wife
- >of a Methodist minister in 1894.
- >
- >It's long, but it sure is interesting reading, IMO.
-
- Dear Rini, have you actually *seen* proof that this was written in
- 1894? Can anyone produce a book or pamphlet undoubtedly that old,
- containing this text? Or is it a modern, Politically Correct fraud,
- cooked up to delight the Faithful and confound the Enemy, like the
- fraudulent "Speech of Cheif Seattle" that is so widsepread in the
- ecology movement?
-
- Rini, this is NOT 19th-century language. This hoax is just another
- example of feminist Dirty Tricks.
-
- Really, people, some critical thinking, please! EVEN concerning
- causes you support. (ESPECIALLY concerning causes you support!)
- >
- >*****************************************************************************
- >
- >INSTRUCTION AND ADVICE FOR THE YOUNG BRIDE
- >
- >Smythers of the Arcadian Methodist Church of the Eastern Regional Conference.
- >Published in the year of our Lord 1894, Spiritual Guidance Press, New York
- >City.) [!!!!!!!!!!!!]
- >
- >On the other hand, the bride's terror need not be extreme. While sex is
- >at best revolting and at worse rather painful, it has to be endured, and
- ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- >
- >By the tenth anniversary many wives have managed to complete their child
- >bearing and have achieved the ultimate goal of terminating all sexual
- ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- >
- >Just as she should be ever alert to keep the quantity of sex as low as
- ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- >possible, the wise bride will pay equal attention to limiting the kind and
- >degree of sexual contacts. Most men are by nature rather perverted, and
- ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- > Thus, a minimum of flesh is exposed.
- ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- >
- >lie quietly upon the bed and await her groom. When he comes groping into
- ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- >the room she should make no sound to guide him in her direction, lest he
- ^^^^^^^^^
- >She will be absolutely silent or babble about her housework while he is
- ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- >huffing and puffing away. Above all, she will lie perfectly still and
- ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- >never under any circumstances grunt or groan while the act is in progress.
- ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- >
- >As soon as the husband has completed the act the wise wife will start nagging
- ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- >
- >***************************************************************************
-
- This document is all-too-modern to have been written in 1894.
- In fact, it sounds suspiciously like the kind of advice that
- certain feminist women of today might give each other.
-
- Where did you get this forgery, Rini?
-
-
- --
-
- Robert Sheaffer - Scepticus Maximus - sheaffer@netcom.com
-
- Past Chairman, The Bay Area Skeptics - for whom I speak only when authorized!
-
- "Beware when the great God lets loose a thinker on this planet.
- Then all things are at risk. It is as when a conflagration has
- broken out in a great city, and no man knows what is safe, or
- where it will end."
- - Emerson: Essay, "Circles"
-