The gals and I just happened to attend a wickedly fun party last weekend. So to celebrate, here is a bit of advice from Ellen Peck’s long-titled How to Get a Boy and What to Do With Him When You Get Him. The topic: flirting at parties. Not that we would know anything about that. 1969: […]
Category: Petting and Sex
Kissing tips and naughty bits.
How Boys Try to Prove Their Masculinity
Here is another fine excerpt from A Girl’s Guide to Dating and Going Steady by Dr. Tom McGinnis. And not a moment too soon ~ it sure has unearthed a lot of mysteries for me. Those poor boys, always struggling to attain manliness! I feel for them, really I do. 1968: How Boys Try to Prove […]
Public Display of Obsession
Q Dear Miss Abigail: I have an obsession with my breasts and I finally am dating someone that thoroughly enjoys them, and I mean thoroughly. The problem is that he starts getting wild, in public. It gets extrememly embarrassing. He puts his hand up my shirt all the time and laughs and squeaks very loud. […]
Aphrodisiacs
Here is a small selection of interesting inducers (and inhibitors) of romance, found in Harry Wedeck’s Dictionary of Aphrodisiacs ~ just doing my part to assist all of you lovers out there. We’ll begin with my favorite food . . . 1961: Aphrodisiacs Artichoke A bristly plant whose edible parts are the fleshy bases of the leaves. […]
Knowing What to Do If Whistled At
Hey, baby, you are looking mighty fine! Yeah, I’m talking to you! Why don’t you come on over here and show me your stuff? 1956: Knowing What to Do If Whistled At Boys sometime cluster in groups and whistle at the girls who pass by. Girls often wonder just how to interpret this kind of […]
The Man Who Stayed for Breakfast
I turn now to some tastier (excuse the pun) material from a book with one of my favorite titles ~ She Cooks to Conquer. When I registered for my 30th birthday I received many wonderful kitchen supplies, and was hoping for the chance to use this book. Unfortunately my kitchen at that time was the size […]
Plunging In
With all my books on the subject of love, marriage, and happy ever after, it’s sometimes refreshing to flip through the few in my collection devoted to the fine art of being single, something my friends and I have had a lot of experience with. Here’s a tidbit from one of these books ~ How To […]
A Mysterious Power
This excerpt from Dorothy Fremont Grant’s So! You Want to Get Married! is truly a fine example of the ludicrous nature of these old books that I spend my time sharing with you. Don’t you just love it? And aren’t you glad all these years have passed? 1947: A Mysterious Power Girls early come to the […]
How to Invite Somebody to Bed
This selection is from a gift to the collection from a charming friend of mine who is otherwise known as the “king of the nap.” This fabulous book is titled Bed Manners, and Better Bed Manners. The cover claims that the book will tell you “how to bring sunshine into your nights,” and proclaims to have […]
Lures Men Can’t Resist
“Her style is eminently readable, and she writes simply and sincerely, utterly without cheap sentimentality,” the flap copy says of Dorothy Dix, author of How to Win and Hold a Husband. This book includes such informative chapters as “What a Man Looks For in a Wife,” “It Pays to Be a Mystery,” and “The Cost of […]