Q Dear Miss Abigail: Is it appropriate to say “Thank you” after you’ve had sex? How does the male perceive this? Mary A Dear Mary: I suppose it depends on the male, but if he’s given you “a wonderful time” it’s only natural that you would thank him for it. I’m sure he’ll be pleased. […]
An Important Difference
Boys and girls. Girls and boys. Who would imagine that they were so incredibly different? Thanks to P. J. Bruckner’s pamphlet titled How to Give Sex Instructions, which was written as “a guide for parents, teachers, and others responsible for the training of young people,” we are finally able to have a better understanding of these […]
The Stupefying Rot of Sexual Proclivities
Q Dear Miss Abigail: Please share some good out-of-date advice from Dr. Edwin W. Hirsch regarding the “power to love.” Thank you! Signed, Viloura A Dear Viloura: Aha! You’ve been fooled by deceiving book titles of years past, artfully constructed to disguise the true, sometimes embarrassing contents. Dr. Hirsch’s 1934 guide titled The Power to Love […]
Directions for Sex
Q Dear Miss Abigail: Where can I find directions for sex? Eddie A Dear Eddie: Step one: Find and woo partner. Step two: Get hitched (you remember, only married people have sex). Step three: Get naked. Step four: Read something like C. B. Evans’s Man and Woman in Marriage ~ “a sound, comprehensive statement of normal […]
Influences Which Incite to Sexual Immorality
I find this excerpt quite amusing, for some reason. It’s from The Sexual Instinct: Its Use and Dangers as Affecting Heredity and Morals, which has a subtitle that drags on: “Essentials to the Welfare of the Individual and the Future of the Race of the Individual.” Author James Foster Scott writes in the preface: “This book […]
Help! It’s My First Passionate Kiss
Q Dear Miss Abigail: I have recently met this girl who I’m very fond off. Things have got far enough for us to start kissing passionately. I have never kissed anyone before, however. Could you please tell me the ins and outs of my first passionate kiss? Signed, James A Dear James: I don’t know […]
Kiss Me, You Fool
Q Dear Miss Abigail: OK, first off I am writing from an email address I just made so that I can have lots of assured privacy. But my question is: I really like this guy that goes to my school (I am twelve and he is sixteen) and I know he likes me. I want […]
I Think My Crush is Using Me
Q Dear Miss Abigail: I recently went to this party. My crush asked me to dance and we then sat alone together for a little while. Then he asked me if I wanted to go make-out. I said no because I wasn’t sure if he was using me or not. Was he? Signed, Sarah A […]
The First Kiss
Q Dear Miss Abigail: When is the right time for the first kiss? Signed, Larrisa A Dear Larrisa: Ah, kissing. Certainly one of my favorite things to do. But your question is a serious one. When is the right time, when the time always seems to feel right? Hopefully this advice from Evelyn Millis Duvall’s 1956 Facts […]
Kissing is Fun
Q Dear Miss Abigail: How do I know if he’s serious about me or just kissing me for fun? He has not expressed his feelings in words. Carina A Dear Carina: Ever heard of “petting”? No, I’m not talking about your dog or cat. You know ~ making out, snogging ~ whatever kids these days […]