August 18, 2004
Spank your monkey
Spanking the Monkey
The Strangest Children's Book of the 19th Century Teaches You the Facts of Life—Complete With Singing Vagina...It's a Victorian sex-ed manual. For children. Starring a monkey.
A review of a real book published at the turn of the century that I would love to get my damn dirty paws on.
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*ahem*
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That monkey's done been spanked!
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well, I for one am glad of the doublepost, as I missed this one last week... these things are really priceless. a girlfriend of mine owns a victorian manual for the new bride. it has become a tradition for her to read selected passages at various bachelorette parties, with expected hilarity ensuing... being of a less liberal bent than the above (also, tragic lack of monkeys...) this book (uh, cant remember exact title offhand, sorry...) provides lots of info on avoiding sex, and making it unpleasant and unrewarding for the victorian hubby when it cant be avoided, ending with the proviso (now the tongue-in-cheek warcry of my liberal and liberated female friends) to "give little, give seldom, and above all, give grudgingly"....
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Oops...my bad for not doing my homework...
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woohoo for my friend tara, here's that victorian bride's manual, in full, for your enjoyment: give little, give seldom and above all, give grudgingly!!
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tragically, years of wicked humor have now been destroyed!! tara just sent me this link: I am crushed!!
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So, nobody else does lie back and think of England anymore?
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That "grudgingly" thing can't be for real, can it? I read the online version, and it seems to me that even if it was written in the 19th Century, they had to be taking the mick.
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*sees snopes link* *clicks it* *scurries off before poo is flung*
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So, nobody else does lie back and think of England anymore? How can you lie there and think of England When you don't even know who's in the team?