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Phyllis Blanchard and Carolyn Manasses Discuss the Ideals and Problems of Modern Marriage, 1930

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

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