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| − | I thought this chapter with the "real life" experiences was ridiculous. I don't know how accurate these stories are, but they seem like very extreme experiences. I feel like adding these stories into the advice manuals made these illnesses appear more real to the readers and was a type of scare tactic to get people to be sexually moral. -- Kari W. | + | I thought this chapter with the "real life" experiences was ridiculous. I don't know how accurate these stories are, but they seem like very extreme experiences. I feel like adding these stories into the advice manuals made these illnesses appear more real to the readers and was a type of scare tactic to get people to be sexually moral. -- Kari W. |
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| + | I agree with Kari that many of these scenarios seem very unbelievable. For instance, Graham's assertion that moving to an all vegetable diet altered the behavior of two young boys seems very unlikely. Yet I wonder how many people believed it when they read such stories in advice manuals. --Sarah Gardner | ||
== Epilogue == | == Epilogue == | ||
