Should anyone doubt that previous generations entertained odd, unusual, misinformed, even outright bizarre notions about what constituted a healthy mind, a healthy body and a healthy, rational attitude about matters sexual, look no farther than Henry Stanton’s treatise Sex Avoided Subjects Discussed in Plain English. Often hilarious with it’s excessive Victorian prudity, the medical and psychological advice given is sometimes downright alarming. Going blind is the least of your worries. It’s safe to say that a couple completely ignorant of the intricacies of sex and marriage would fare better than young newlyweds schooled by Stanton. children and adolescents are still taught to look on all that pertains to sex as something shameful and immodest, something not to be discussed. Sex is an “Avoided Subject.”

This is a timeless classic for those who can appreciate the knowledge and wisdom in this precious book. Henry Stanton’s 1922 book Sex – Avoided Subjects Discussed in Plain English is intended as a frank (although consevative and moralistic) guide to human sexual behaviour and relationships. It is partly a self-help book, partly an attempt to relay the scientific knowledge of the day in relation to sex and reproduction in a way suitable for popular consumption.

This is fundamentally wrong. Sex affects the very root of all human life. Its activities are not obscene, but Nature’s own means to certain legitimate ends. The sex functions, when properly controlled and led into the proper channels, are a most essential and legitimate form of physical self-expression. The veil of secrecy with which they are so often shrouded tends to create an altogether false impression regarding them. This discussion of these “Avoided Subjects,” in “Plain English,” is intended to give the salient facts regarding sex in a direct, straightforward manner, bearing in mind the true purpose of normal sex activities.

Henry Stanton’s 1922 classic SEX, Avoided Subjects in Plain English takes us back to a day when sex and sexual content was simply not discussed with children, teens, and young adults except with an indecent back room palor or a religious thrust of “thou shalt nots”. Although Stanton was writing in an era where sexual research and medical knowledge were still rather antiquated, he attempts to give light to a subject which is rife with a Victorian sort of taboo. In an era where a person is punished for an act so natural and common as masturbation, where little ones are taught that babies are the gifts of benevolent storks, and where religious superstition sways the imagination far more than science and research, this book opened the doors for an enlightenment in sexual discussion. The reader should be warned that, in spite of Stanton’s attempt at opening doors on the subject, that sex and sexual hygene were then still in its infancy, and that the cautions and suggestions offered here are still quite ancient to our modern philosophy.

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Sex – Avoided Subjects Discussed in Plain English – chapter-3

CHAPTER-3 SEX IN YOUNG MALES

Sex in male

Every organ of the body should be carefully protected, even atyoung age.