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Why would Dr. Frederick "of course...tried to explain it away?" Didn't Jane Addams, Louise DeKoven Brown and other Chicago reformers blame overwork, commercialized recreation and alcohol for "bringing out natural yearnings and instincts that THEY preferred to see repressed"? Why would these women want to see these instincts repressed? Wouldn't a prominent woman such as Addams OF COURSE have approved of open sexual practices? And why would Dr. Frederick have bothered to interview women about their feelings towards sex? Mosher's study wasn't common nor was it published, so why are we assuming today that it was a common thing to ask women about their attitudes towards sex a century ago? And didn't the Mosher survey find that some women didn't have an interest in sex? I'm sure that women's history is a contentious topic but objectivity needs to be maintained and we need to make sure that we don't project our modern day assumptions into history. -schang | Why would Dr. Frederick "of course...tried to explain it away?" Didn't Jane Addams, Louise DeKoven Brown and other Chicago reformers blame overwork, commercialized recreation and alcohol for "bringing out natural yearnings and instincts that THEY preferred to see repressed"? Why would these women want to see these instincts repressed? Wouldn't a prominent woman such as Addams OF COURSE have approved of open sexual practices? And why would Dr. Frederick have bothered to interview women about their feelings towards sex? Mosher's study wasn't common nor was it published, so why are we assuming today that it was a common thing to ask women about their attitudes towards sex a century ago? And didn't the Mosher survey find that some women didn't have an interest in sex? I'm sure that women's history is a contentious topic but objectivity needs to be maintained and we need to make sure that we don't project our modern day assumptions into history. -schang | ||
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| + | Phyllis Blanchard and Carolyn Manasses Discuss the Ideals and Problems of Modern Marriage, 1930 | ||
| + | Phyllis Blanchard and Carolyn Manasses stressed the importance of the sexual relationship between the husband and wife, in order to obtain a fulfilled and happy marriage. Their goals were to make sex education more available to the “average” person and not limited to only professional classes and to show the importance of women’s own active participation in the physical relationship of marriage. They acknowledged that women had recognized themselves as sexual beings in this modern era and needed to be educated to fulfill those roles in a marriage of mutual companionship. I think they were writing for those who restricted this information from getting out. They are showing that by restricting this information that they are impairing (what they called handicapping) women from obtaining that fulfilled happy marriage and encouraging personality conflicts by allowing ignorance on the subject of sex. In general, I don’t think people knew how to react to this information. They probably felt it was needed and wanted but some were afraid to openly acknowledge this but secretly may have wanted to obtain it. There were religious reasons that encouraged people to reject this in fear of being immoral and inappropriate. Some women may have been comfortable with the rigidity of women’s role whereas others felt that it allowed women a more equal partner in the marriage. Blanchard and Manasses were saying that by educating women, they would meet the needs of their own sexual desires and expectations and being more apt to satisfying her partner. These women are liberal in their thoughts on pre-marital sex and emphasized that one should try their partners out sexually before marriage to see if they would be compatible. I don’t think that this was generally accepted though it wouldn’t necessarily mean that it wasn’t being practiced. In the eyes of these two Psychologists, the modern marriage required a larger emphasis on the physical side and this made the importance of educating women about sex and contraceptives even more important. -MHimes | ||
== Manifestations of Nymphomania, 1907 == | == Manifestations of Nymphomania, 1907 == | ||
