Sex Education

men young enough ...
where did the men go ?
perhaps it was the traumatising rollers.
this is becoming surreal.
becoming?

welbeck

what !
you mean young enough to father children were wearing pullovers in 1986 !
who'd've thunk it !

Home-knitted ones, crafted by their dutiful wives.

When I had our first baby in 1977, my husband took a week off work.
He had long lie-ins as according to him he'd read you should rest after having a baby.
On his first day back at work he asked me to iron him some shirts as he'd run out. Like a naïve fool I did ☹️

After that I didn't want any more children, he did.
I told him in no uncertain terms things would have to change 🤨

We had three children and we've been married 46 years. He's an amazing, supportive husband.
Who would have thought it? 🤣

What do you mean, it’s out of date advice?
I followed it all exactly!
😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

Mind you, I didn’t need a Bath to set my hair in rollers, I had electric Carmen rollers!

Or even a bath

I can vaguely remember reading that before. Women's magazines had tips like that. I wonder who wrote them?

My DM was told by her DMiL in 1948 while pregnant with me, that the NHS orange juice should be given to her husband as should any extra rations because "he's the man"

My DM tried to explain it was for the grandchild but the older woman did not understand.

that reminds me of families i've read about, in the past, i hope, where the men/boys were always served first and given the best portions.
i've never actually seen this.

Josie on I'm a Celebrity actually said this week that the men should get the meat! Put me right off her. I didn't think people still thought like that.

As miner’s wives, my Grandma and Aunts always served their husbands first and didn’t sit down to their own meals until they were sure the menfolk had everything they wanted to hand.
Late ‘50s.

Wow that sounds incredible. As a teenager in the swinging sixties it was not something that I was aware of. What an era to be a married women! You could not get a mortgage in your own right, your salary was not taken into account in a joint mortgage with your Husband, you could not open a bank account without signed authorisation from your Husband!! As recently as the 1980's Women's income tax still had to be declared on their Husband's tax return so he knew how much she earned!!! The mind boggles. Thank goodness times have changed for today's younger Women.

Hilarious! I was actually waiting for the punchline.

And I’ve never heard “congress” before. How quaint.

V3ra

^...offer to take off his shoes.^

My Mum had a friend who always got down on the floor and took her husband's shoes off every day when he came home from work... 😳

My Auntie did this and she would place the slippers on her husband's feet!
At the table he'd say "tea sweetheart" and she'd pour his drink....

Even at that age - early teens, I can remember thinking that any man had no hope of that from me!

I should really go back and apologise to M, I suppose.

Only we got divorced in 1981.
During this he told me that 'next time he would look for a doormat!' quite seriously.

....he thought he found one - but later, she divorced him!

Married in 1984. My mil didn’t like me because I questioned her ways and her advice. I always remember having a fry up at her house, she served the meaty end of the bacon rasher to my husband and gave me the streaky end ! I redistributed the bacon more fairly lol. She also told me t dangle a noon wrapped in muslin that n any dish I cooked for him because he liked the taste of onion but not the texture.

I was born in the late 1960s so I found this quite humourous.

Definitely doesn’t sound like the flower power 60 s that I remember lol

Nah definitely not the 60s that was the prime time for free love
I was married in the mid 60 s and we found some very enterprising places to ‘do it’ before we got married he certainly wouldn’t have noticed if I ‘adjusted my clothing or freshened up ‘ 🤣never heard the term Congress

Surely this is 1860 s not 1960 s

But the early sixties were still pretty strait laced depending on where you lived. I remember pedalling through our town in a bright t shirt on a Sunday and getting many disapproving looks as people came out of Chapel.

It is still better than any sex education my mother gave me (absolutely none). The only thing I was told when I was 13 was " Don't let any boy make a fool of you". That was it. It's fortunate I became a nurse. It taught me a lot.

Congress rather suggests that this was originally an American text. I have never met a British person who talked of sexual congress, only Americans.

I don't doubt, OP, that this text may well have been printed in the 1960s, but like many others I suggest that it was an older text, brought up to date by mentioning "rollers" instead of "curlers" and otherwise served up as it had originally been written.

It could be pre-WW2 or written in an attempt to get the women who had gained some monetary independence by working in munitions factories, or joining the services back to the pre-war role of homekeeping wife, supported by husband.

Probably written by a man.

My sex education began when I was in hospital age ten in 1950 for scarlet fever... from the older girls in the ward, who told smutty but under-standable jokes..... don't think I ever read anything like that article.

I did try to be a wife, but not like that! Looking back, I don't think I was much good at it.

In the 70s I got the book 'Our Bodies, Ourselves.
Wow!

I never had any sex education until i was 19 and joined the WAAF in 1942 and we had a lecture on sexual diseases.
My hair in curlers always turned my husband on!

welbeck

that reminds me of families i've read about, in the past, i hope, where the men/boys were always served first and given the best portions.
i've never actually seen this.

When I had Sunday lunch at my grandparents - early 60s (I was 15, my male cousin was 14). He always got twice as much food as me even though I was a skinny girl with a big appetite. He also left a lot of it so I volunteered to clear the table and cleared his plate in the kitchen!