Advice for the Young Bride (cir. 1894).

Posted by Alex in Everything Else on August 12, 2006 at 1:03 am


Some instruction and advice for the young bride, written by Ruth Smythers, beloved wife of the Reverend L.D. Smythers, Pastor of the Arcadian Methodist Church of the Eastern Regional Conference.

Published in the year of our Lord 1894:

On the negative side, there is the wedding night, during which the bride must pay the piper, so to speak, by facing for the first time the terrible experience of sex. At this point, dear reader, let me concede one shocking truth. Some young women actually anticipate the wedding night ordeal with curiosity and pleasure! Beware such an attitude! A selfish and sensual husband can easily take advantage of such a bride. One cardinal rule of marriage should never be forgotten: GIVE LITTLE, GIVE SELDOM, AND ABOVE ALL, GIVE GRUDGINGLY. Otherwise what could have been a proper marriage could become an orgy of sexual lust.

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10 comments to "Advice for the Young Bride (cir. 1894)."

  1. Spooty
    August 12th, 2006 at 8:42 am

    Probably an urban legend. Snopes says it's "Undetermined". http://www.snopes.com/weddings/newlywed/advice.asp

    This piece is too good to be true, IMO.

  2. Ted
    August 12th, 2006 at 11:18 am

    Snopes is definitely on the ball calling it an urban legend.
    For example, the word "perverted" meant something quite different in 1894 than it does today.
    It's cute, and no doubt some people may actually feel the same way as the supposed author.

    And don't forget kissing leads to cooties.

  3. Aleki
    August 12th, 2006 at 1:51 pm

    ummmmm.... I think my wife got this memo......

  4. Chad
    August 12th, 2006 at 1:58 pm

    "GIVE LITTLE, GIVE SELDOM, AND ABOVE ALL, GIVE GRUDGINGLY. Otherwise what could have been a proper marriage could become an orgy of sexual lust."
    damnit.... Just DAMNIT! I hope whoever wrote that got their ass handed to them on a daily basis!

  5. Emmers
    August 12th, 2006 at 6:48 pm

    How I DO so loathe the terrible experience of sex... sometimes so much that I go into mild convulsions during the horrible act...

  6. Aaron S
    August 13th, 2006 at 12:38 am

    LMAO. thats funny stuff. Good thing I live in the 21st centure if her writings are a good basis of assuming the popular opinion in the late 1800s woooo. ORGIES of Sexual Lust. thats what im talking about. Any females wanna try one of those with hm Me? ;)

  7. L
    August 13th, 2006 at 3:39 pm

    LOL... Consider the source.

    Whether it's true or not, it's still pretty funny.

  8. Mary
    August 13th, 2006 at 11:01 pm

    Oddly enough, the average family in those days had ten kids - must be the young people didn't listen to their elders any better then than they do now!

  9. Miss Cellania
    August 14th, 2006 at 12:37 am

    We can't be havin' no orgies of sexual lust, now, can we? 'Twouldn't be proper!

  10. intelnm
    March 28th, 2007 at 3:36 pm

    this goes under the heading of i married a nun. nun in the morning and nun at night


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