Stories
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Dial ‘S’ for sex
In pre-internet days, phone boxes became a patchwork of ‘tart cards’ offering sexual services. Find out about the clandestine world they hint at.
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The healing power of breathing
The healing powers of different breathing methods are said to help with a range of health challenges, from asthma to PTSD. Effie Webb traces their spiritual origins and explores the modern proliferation of breathwork therapies.
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Befriending heavy breathers
Read the fascinating story behind the rare manual that helped volunteers on one of Britain’s first free telephone helplines to deal with masturbating callers.
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Female masturbation and the perils of pleasure
Dr Kate Lister exposes the brutal 19th-century ‘cures’ for women who indulged in masturbation.
Catalogue
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Sex education in schools : an experiment in elementary instruction / by Theodore F. Tucker and Muriel Pout.
Tucker, Theodore F. (Theodore Frederic), 1899-Date: 1933- Archives and manuscripts
The Case for Sex Instruction and Guidance for Young People, British Social Hygiene Council
Date: c.1940Reference: SA/MWF/N.1/4Part of: Medical Women's Federation- Books
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Private lessons in the cultivation of magnetism of the sexes : teaching the development and wonderful enlargement of those powers and influences that nature has invented to aid every human life / instruction by Edmund Shaftesbury.
Shaftesbury, Edmund, 1852-1926Date: [1936], ©1936- Books
Race regeneration, the mystery of sex : a course of instruction on the right use of sex / by R. Swinburne Clymer.
Clymer, R. Swinburne (Reuben Swinburne), 1878-1966.Date: [1921], ©1921- Archives and manuscripts
Report by Miss Martindale MD BS (British Rapporteur-General) on some papers on Sex Instruction for Children and Adolescents submitted from six countries to the Medical Women's International Association for the Paris Congress, 1929, Paris
Date: 1929Reference: SA/MWF/N.1/12Part of: Medical Women's Federation