Instruction and Advice for the Young Bride

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title: Instruction and Advice for the Young Bride
text: Instruction and Advice for the Young Bride purports to be a booklet written by Ruth Smythers in 1894 that states that women find sex displeasurable and discusses methods which a newly married woman may use to discourage her husband from sex. Although there is ample evidence that the text is a joke or hoax - Ruth Smythers, her husband and the institutions mentioned in the pamphlet did not exist, and some of the language and reference points were not used until the 20th century - it has fooled som
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