From: sheaffer@netcom.com (Robert Sheaffer)
Subject: Re: sex in the good ol' days
Organization: Netcom - Online Communication Services (408 241-9760 guest)
Date: Mon, 16 Nov 1992 17:28:42 GMT

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?


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