Mapel Attractions: 1746 Curtis Street, Denver, Colorado. 1942.
Perfect-bound wrappers over staple-bound text-block. 150 pp., illus. CONDITION: Good, adhesive worn along spine panel but wrappers remain attached, text and illus. clear and clean, no tears.
A highly informative work of sexual hygiene, providing an educational perspective on vital health and wellness, and casting an unusually favorable upon homosexuality and the services of abortion clinics.
This guidebook provides answers to common questions plaguing parents of adolescent boys and girls. In declaring the importance of its subject, the authors note that “hygienic sex knowledge not only creates a wholesome attitude about…sex…but such knowledge promotes better mental and physical health.” In keeping with the standard pedagogical nature of this genre of popular literature, the chapters include advice on “Early Sexual Training,” which among other things answers “how can the problem of masturbation be handled?;” “Man’s Sexual Nature,” which treats in part male hormones and semen; and “Woman’s Sexual Nature,” which includes subsections on menstruation, pregnancy, and interestingly, female sterilization. More unusual is the material on “Birth Control” and “Abortion,” where, rather than treating these topics as subjects worthy only of prompt dismissal, the authors quote from such authorities as Margaret Sanger to advocate for the moral imperative of universal access to contraceptive medicines and clinics. An appendix provides a list of “Birth Control Clinics in the United States,” the majority of which appear to be in California and New York.
Secondary sources and the newspaper record yields minimal contextual information on the publisher, Mapel Attractions. From ads in 1930s papers and copyright notices published by the Library of Congress, it appears that they may have been involved in the early exploitation film scene, and facilitated the viewings of such underground classics as Smashing the Vice Trust (1937) in Oregon. Their address, 1746 Curtis Street, was the site of Iris Theater, a movie-hall in Denver during the 1910s.
OCLC locates two holdings of this edition, at Duke and NYU.
Mapel Attractions: 1746 Curtis Street, Denver, Colorado. 1942.
Perfect-bound wrappers over staple-bound text-block. 150 pp., illus. CONDITION: Good, adhesive worn along spine panel but wrappers remain attached, text and illus. clear and clean, no tears.
A highly informative work of sexual hygiene, providing an educational perspective on vital health and wellness, and casting an unusually favorable upon homosexuality and the services of abortion clinics.
This guidebook provides answers to common questions plaguing parents of adolescent boys and girls. In declaring the importance of its subject, the authors note that “hygienic sex knowledge not only creates a wholesome attitude about…sex…but such knowledge promotes better mental and physical health.” In keeping with the standard pedagogical nature of this genre of popular literature, the chapters include advice on “Early Sexual Training,” which among other things answers “how can the problem of masturbation be handled?;” “Man’s Sexual Nature,” which treats in part male hormones and semen; and “Woman’s Sexual Nature,” which includes subsections on menstruation, pregnancy, and interestingly, female sterilization. More unusual is the material on “Birth Control” and “Abortion,” where, rather than treating these topics as subjects worthy only of prompt dismissal, the authors quote from such authorities as Margaret Sanger to advocate for the moral imperative of universal access to contraceptive medicines and clinics. An appendix provides a list of “Birth Control Clinics in the United States,” the majority of which appear to be in California and New York.
Secondary sources and the newspaper record yields minimal contextual information on the publisher, Mapel Attractions. From ads in 1930s papers and copyright notices published by the Library of Congress, it appears that they may have been involved in the early exploitation film scene, and facilitated the viewings of such underground classics as Smashing the Vice Trust (1937) in Oregon. Their address, 1746 Curtis Street, was the site of Iris Theater, a movie-hall in Denver during the 1910s.
OCLC locates two holdings of this edition, at Duke and NYU.
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