Sex, marriage and birth-control : (lifting the blinds on marriage) a guide-book to a satisfactory sex life in marriage a practical handbook for engaged and married couples and for the use of social workers, teachers, nurses, the clergy, and those doctors who are too busy to attempt the reeducation of patients / by Alfred Henry Tyrer.

  • Tyrer, Alfred Henry, 1870-1942.
Date:
[1936], ©1936
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Credit: Sex, marriage and birth-control : (lifting the blinds on marriage) a guide-book to a satisfactory sex life in marriage a practical handbook for engaged and married couples and for the use of social workers, teachers, nurses, the clergy, and those doctors who are too busy to attempt the reeducation of patients / by Alfred Henry Tyrer. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    How soon after child-birth may the sex life be resumed ? When a healthy mother has a normal labor her sex organs will have fully recovered in five or six weeks. In order that she may make a perfect recovery sexual in¬ tercourse should not be resumed earlier than this. Can a mother become pregnant while she is nurs¬ ing a baby? Yes. Many a woman knows only too well from repeat¬ ed experiences that she may have to take care of two of her progeny at the same time—one in her arms and one in her uterus. Is Circumcision generally advisable for baby boys ? By no means. It is an operation that is performed far too often. The foreskin or prepuce is the natural pro¬ tection for the delicate and sensitive head of the penis, and it should not be cut off if avoidable. By patience it can be gradually loosened. If necessary a doctor can loosen it and stretch it and so avoid any operation. What is meant by a i( Companionate Marriage”? Marriage is always an adventure, the outcome of which can never be foreseen. If in the course of a few months or years the couple find that they are mismated, disappointed, and unhappy, they are doomed to that life¬ long misery under our present laws unless they obtain a divorce. But divorces are difficult and costly things to get, and they can not be obtained by mutual consent. In Canada and some other places adultery has to be proved by the offended partner. Needless to say there is collusion in lots of divorce cases. Judge Lindsey of Denver has suggested what he terms “companionate marriage” as a solution to this desperately bad state of affairs. Companionate marriage would mean a perfectly legal marriage in which birth-control would be practised until such time as the couple were satisfied that they