Hygienic Productions: Home Offices, Hygiene Building, Wilmington, Ohio. 1948.
Staple-bound cardstock wrappers. 92 pp., 4 pgs. of pub. ads., illus. throughout. CONDITION: Very good, wrappers minimally worn at extremities, 1” tear to right-margin of preliminary leaves, text clear and clean.
A luridly illustrated guide to sexual health and moral behavior for adolescent boys and their fathers, compiled by a pioneering woman in the exploitation film genre, published to promote an early sex-hygiene film.
In keeping with the pedagogical goals of authors associated with America’s postwar sexual panic, this manual describes the “Sex Problems” of young men, treating such themes as “how to help your boy curb masturbation;” “a woman’s true sexual responsibility;” “aid for over-sexed males,” and “new tests [that] determine pregnancy.” Also included are several chapters on cures for venereal disease, with special attention being paid to syphilis and gonorrhea, as well as advice for abortions, marriage, hormonal imbalances, and ways to aid the “sexually abnormal,” i.e. those with unusual fetishes like sadomasochism and “homosexuals.”
Advertisements in the book indicate that Horn had just published a guide to help recovering alcoholics, titled One too Many, and that the publishers were involved in producing the film Mom and Dad. This motion picture was one of the highest grossing productions of the 1940s, attracting much controversy due to its frank display of sexual behavior and female anatomy. It appears that Horn wrote the screenplay of this film, which also advertised a number of the sexual hygiene works she wrote, including the Digest of Hygiene for Mother and Daughter.
OCLC locates 5 holdings of this edition.
Hygienic Productions: Home Offices, Hygiene Building, Wilmington, Ohio. 1948.
Staple-bound cardstock wrappers. 92 pp., 4 pgs. of pub. ads., illus. throughout. CONDITION: Very good, wrappers minimally worn at extremities, 1” tear to right-margin of preliminary leaves, text clear and clean.
A luridly illustrated guide to sexual health and moral behavior for adolescent boys and their fathers, compiled by a pioneering woman in the exploitation film genre, published to promote an early sex-hygiene film.
In keeping with the pedagogical goals of authors associated with America’s postwar sexual panic, this manual describes the “Sex Problems” of young men, treating such themes as “how to help your boy curb masturbation;” “a woman’s true sexual responsibility;” “aid for over-sexed males,” and “new tests [that] determine pregnancy.” Also included are several chapters on cures for venereal disease, with special attention being paid to syphilis and gonorrhea, as well as advice for abortions, marriage, hormonal imbalances, and ways to aid the “sexually abnormal,” i.e. those with unusual fetishes like sadomasochism and “homosexuals.”
Advertisements in the book indicate that Horn had just published a guide to help recovering alcoholics, titled One too Many, and that the publishers were involved in producing the film Mom and Dad. This motion picture was one of the highest grossing productions of the 1940s, attracting much controversy due to its frank display of sexual behavior and female anatomy. It appears that Horn wrote the screenplay of this film, which also advertised a number of the sexual hygiene works she wrote, including the Digest of Hygiene for Mother and Daughter.
OCLC locates 5 holdings of this edition.
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