This is too funny

Being an older GNer, I was married in 1958 and that article is so far distant from the life I knew and reality it could have been written in the 1920’s.
The word congress makes me hoot with laughter.

Ah. Thank you.

GN has been swamped with Spam this morning.

Yes, what is the bumping all about?

Have I missed something please?
Is there a lot of spam?
Why are people bumping?
Thanks.

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I think there was a wide gap between what was written in booklets like this, and what young people actually thought and believed. A bit like those articles you used to get in magazines and books recounting how a woman at home should spend her day doing domestic tasks - and in what order and other articles about combining working and running a household.

I was 18 in 1961 and at my convent boarding school, if we had ever seen or been given a booklet like this, we would have been hooting with laughter, reading snippets out and sending it up.

I cannot remember anyone my age at the time doing other than thinking that everything from necking onwards was a mutally enjoyable sport for both sexes.

Most women's magazines then, would have small discrete adverts from London Rubber, offering to send you a booklet about contraception and their - rubber - products. They did assure us it would be sent in a plain brown onvelope. I duly sent off for it and, yes, it did arrive in a plain envelope, which got passed around between my friends and was very pracical and educational.

Like most families, sex was not something ever discussed at home, but nothing negative was ever said and the only time my mother,elliptically, said anything on the subject. It was to indicate that it was something very enjoyable.

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I did my sixth year dissertation on portrayals of women in The Rainbow and Women in Love with reference to Odour of Chrysanthemums. What I knew about sex at that point was very theoretical!

Is that booklet for real?
It is ridiculous and sounds far from the 1960s I remember.

My big sister and her friends were a good source of information. I was very interested.
There were plenty of "dirty" jokes and giggling.

Some words I didn't understand for years Sex education didn't exist at school.
I hope my DC and DGC are better informed.

I can remember telling a girl at school how babies were made because she didn't know!
My DM told me I shouldn't have because if her parents wanted her to know, they'd have told her. I was mortified.

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I always think of the 1960's as being somewhat more progressive. I suppose things didn't start to change until the latter half of the decade with Women's Lib, hippies and when the "Joy of Sex" was published.

This article could easily have been written in the 1860's.

Nana that's so funny. I remember my mom telling me when she got married in 1950 the woman at work told her if she didn't want to get pregnant then drink a glass of water before sex then jump up and down after sex . Glad to say mom didn't do that . But remember her saying in front of my dad when I was in my 20's and married they weren't that bothered about sex . Dad's face was a picture . Then she went on to say don't know what all the fuss was about. Told her they must have been doing it wrong for years and hadn't she heard of foreplay. She said no and dashed off to make tea. My dad then said your mom goes off like a rocket 🤣.

An aunt of mine said anyone who does like sex is a liar. She had RA and it was a sad day for her when she couldn't make love anymore when her kidneys stopped working and had dialysis 4 days a week for 4 hrs for 10 years before her death.

Marydoll I remember reading Lady Chatterley's lover,Women in love and The Rainbow when a teenager . Our English teacher was made on DH Lawrence and Charles Dickens . Read Tale of 2 cities when 12. No sex in that but can you imagine 12 year olds reading Dickens at 12 now or do they ? My grandsons are all young so no idea what they read at high school.

I attended an all girls convent school in 1969. Prior to starting first year, we attended a meeting with our parent/s. We were sent out of the hall, while the headmistress (a nun) handed the parent a sex education booklet for us to read, when the parent decided we were ready to be enlightened.
It had perforated pages, so that either the boys' or girls' section could be ripped out.

It was so full of euphemisms, I still wasn't any the wiser after reading it! We used to get our sex education from the problem page of Women's Own, which my friend's mother used to hide in the bedside cabinet. In the bedside cabinet, my friend also found the boys' pages.

What was ironic was that in Sixth year, we studied Lady Chatterly's Lover and Women in Love. 😂

OMG, I could not stop laughing. Obedient-me?

Now I know where I went wrong - Congress?

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Isn't this what Barbara Cartland used to say?

And don't let him see you without makeup?