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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:
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Spooty
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.
Ted
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.
Chad
“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!
Emmers
How I DO so loathe the terrible experience of sex… sometimes so much that I go into mild convulsions during the horrible act…
Aaron S
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? 
L
LOL… Consider the source.
Whether it’s true or not, it’s still pretty funny.
Mary
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!
Miss Cellania
We can’t be havin’ no orgies of sexual lust, now, can we? ‘Twouldn’t be proper!
intelnm
this goes under the heading of i married a nun. nun in the morning and nun at night
ja
The pic is badly chosen, it’s from 20th of Twenty century, not late XIX.
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