Article ID: CBB686896153

“Advanced Marriage Technique”: Sex as a Perfectible Skill in Mid-twentieth-century American Marriage Manuals (2021)

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While earlier marital advice literature treated sexual intercourse as a matter of conditioned instinct, marriage manuals in the mid-twentieth century portrayed it as a skill, and one that was rarely cultivated adequately. The didactic, quantified, objectively examined and rule-bound approach to sex promulgated by these manuals parallels other ways in which Americans subjected their personal and intimate lives to the tutelage of experts. Anxieties about the stability of marriage and family life were both heightened and salved by the authoritative tone of scientific authority used in these books.

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Authors & Contributors
Bitar, Adrienne Rose
Treitel, Corinna
Adrienne Edgar
Christian Groes
Maayan Sudai
Moore, Martin D.
Concepts
Sex
Social sciences
Marriage
Self-help; self-care
Medicine and society
Technoscience; science and technology studies
Time Periods
20th century
21st century
Early modern
20th century, late
19th century
Places
United States
Tajikistan
Spain
China
Soviet Union
Kazakhstan
Institutions
Carnegie Institution of Washington
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