Health--beauty--sexuality, from girlhood to womanhood : plain advice to girls that will be found invaluable as they grow from girlhood into womanhood / by Bernarr Macfadden and Marion Malcolm.

  • Macfadden, Bernarr, 1868-1955
Date:
[1904]
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Credit: Health--beauty--sexuality, from girlhood to womanhood : plain advice to girls that will be found invaluable as they grow from girlhood into womanhood / by Bernarr Macfadden and Marion Malcolm. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    stitutions, the middle aged women suffering tortures from diseases peculiar to their sex, the uncounted thousands of unhappy marriages. The prudes go a step further than merely fostering this deadly ignorance. Moral bats that they are, they not only shun the light of knowledge themselves, but with squeakings and flutterings seek to extin- guish it so that the darkness in which they live and move and have their being, may be maintained. “For their works being evil, they love darkness rather than light,” as an inspired authority puts it. So that those who endeavor to illuminate the pre- vailing gloom of sexual ignorance are often met by abuse and denunciation. The truth is that the aver- age prude is at heart a depraved creature, who im- putes evil to all and decency to none. He, and not un- usually she, goes through life sniffing out evil odors. To the prude all actions spring from one motive, that of licentiousness. As the critic must be pro- foundly imbued with the spirit of the thing that he criticises, so it follows that the prude must be steeped in moral corruption to the heart core in order to de- tect naught but vileness in the most beautiful and wonderful works of the Creator. And yet, such is the fatuity of our natures, we permit the prude to hold sway in our homes, our schools, and our legis-