Modern Marriage And How To Bear It

Modern marriage and how to bear it By Maud Churto n Braby

"[...] 'It's a woman's business to get married as soon as possible and a man's to remain unmarried as long as he can.' -G. BERNARD SHAW. 'Marriage is of so much use to a woman, opens out to her so much of life, and puts her in the way of so much more freedom and usefulness, that whether she marry ill or well, she can hardly miss some benefit.' -R. L. STEVENSON. 'Why women don't marry? But they do-whenever they can!' the intelligent reader will naturally exclaim. Not 'whenever they get the chance, ' mark you; no intelligent reader would make this mistake, though it is a common enough error among the non-comprehending. Most spinsters over thirty must have winced at one time or another at the would-be genial rallying of some elderly man relative: 'What! you not married yet? Well, well, [...]."

"Mrs Maud Churton Braby has achieved a remarkable success. She has written an original book upon the most threadbare of all subjects, in which she has been as witty as she is wise . . . packed full of good sense, sound morality, and admirable advice. It is a book naked and unashamed, written by a woman of the world with the na�ve simplicity of an innocent child, and arriving on the whole at conclusions worthy of any mother in Israel; a book full of profound wisdom irradiated by a pleasant wit and suffused with the glow of a genuine human sympathy."

A useful source of primary material, this anthology examines a significant number of British women's writings on sex from Victorian times to the 1960s, and studies all aspects of their debates from marriage and lesbianism to prostitution and STDs.

A married couple discusses their decision to participate in couples-only sex events and the challenges and consequences that this decision presented for their marriage.