Heritage : planned parenthood is but a mark of advancing civilization / The Allen Surgical Hygienic Co. Ltd.

Date:
[between 1930 and 1939?]
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Heritage : planned parenthood is but a mark of advancing civilization / The Allen Surgical Hygienic Co. Ltd. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    YOUR TOMORROW (A few words for those about to marry) Most of our readers who have been married for some years will agree that the first 12 months of married life is really the critical period, and one which is likely to make or mar the success of the marriage. It can well be called the formative period of married life. © As mentioned earlier in the booklet, the first attraction between boy and girl is a physical one, and whilst too much importance must not be given to the physical side of marriage, it is equally. dangerous not to pay sufficient attention to it. It is generally assumed, by unmarried people, that men are _ more interested in sex than women, but this is a fallacy, and a relic of the Victorian Era when the subject of sex was taboo, and one only to be mentioned in whispers behind closed doors. A normal] healthy girl, upon reaching maturity, should be equally interested in marital relationship, which is the physical symbol of the affection she has for her husband. If there is any girl entering marriage who is merely prepared to tolerate her husband’s advances without participating to the full, our advice is, call the marriage off, for it will only- lead to unhappiness. Few couples commence married life today with the idea of having a baby for a year or two, for quite apart from housing and economic conditions, they do feel it wise to get established before commencing a family. Conditions are such at the commencement of married life that rather special attention has to be paid to the method of contracep- tion to be employed. The ordinary condom or sheath will not, in the majority of cases, prove suitable, nor will conditions permit the adoption of a method of contraception by the woman herself until she has been married at least three months. When intercourse first takes place, the hymen (maidenhead), a thin membrane stretching across most of the vaginal passage, leaving a small aperture for the menstrual flow, has to be ruptured. Further- more the vaginal passage is much smaller than the erected phallus.
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