Once a Week Is Ample: Or, the Moderately Sensual Victorians Guide to Restraint of the Passions

Lingua: inglese

Editore: HarperCollins, 1997

0002559218 / 9780002559218

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70 pages. The Victorians were a chaste bunch - at least on the surface of it - and enjo yed nothing better than to indulge in a little repression and moralising. In cho ice quotations from eminent authorities of the period, Once A Week Is Ample reve als how to handle that most delicate issue of human existence: sex.'The personal ly secret life of men and women has never been handled more delicately, chastely , convincingly, or with more ennobling force, than is done in this book.'Sex, or conjugal and carnal relations, was not something the Victorians openly applaude d. Delicate, private, embarrassing.it was all too often a subject to be whispe red about furtively in shadowy corners. If you had to do it, it had to be done q uietly. And women didn't do it at all. It was a subject so sensitive, even Debre tt was challenged. Cautious questions require considered answers: discover them all in Once A Week Is Ample.'My constant Endeavour is to subdue Desire of the Fl esh. Am I right to do so? Will I avoid the Muddy Swamps of Weariness?''My wife i s Expectant and her Condition is Clearly Manifest. Surely this will cause Distre ss of Mind to my Sons, who are of a Delicate Age?'Once A Week Is Ample will save many a young fellow from the blast and blight of a befouled manhood, wrecked by the wretched blunderings of an ignorant youth. And many a woman, too. It is an absolute must-have for any person - the young and impressionable in particular - who might be thinking of indulging in a little forbidden fruit. …

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Titolo
Once a Week Is Ample: Or, the Moderately Sensual Victorians Guide to Restraint of the Passions
Autore
Gerard Macdonald
Editore
HarperCollins
Anno di pubblicazione
1997
Condizione
Very Good
Rilegatura
Hardcover
Lingua
inglese
ISBN 10
0002559218
ISBN 13
9780002559218
Dimensioni
19.4cm x 11.5cm
Cataloghi dei venditori
Health

Book Express (NZ)

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