On this episode, we delve into What a Young Girl Ought to Know, by Dr. Mary Wood-Allen (1897), a "purity education" book that was purported to tell children about sex (but really didn't). &nbsp;This podcast is marked explicit because I occasionally use four-letter words.&nbsp;
If you are unable to listen to the podcast, a <a href="https://drive.google.com/open?id=17Vg7-7XTwkVdEs-2FFj1RwOFul0w2PgW">transcript</a> is available: https://drive.google.com/open?id=17Vg7-7XTwkVdEs-2FFj1RwOFul0w2PgW
Source material for this episode:&nbsp;
Pierce, J. (2011). What Young Readers Ought to Know: The Successful Selling of Sexual Health Texts in the Early Twentieth Century. Book History, 14, 110-136. DOI: <a href="https://doi.org/10.1353/bh.2011.0009">https://doi.org/10.1353/bh.2011.0009</a>
Sethna, C. (2010). Animal sex: purity education and the abstinence agenda. Sex Education, 10(3), 267-279. DOI: 10.1080/14681811.2010.491636
Wood-Allen, M. (1897). What a Young Girl Ought to Know. London, England: Vir Publishing. <a href="https://archive.org/details/whatayounggirlo00allegoog">Link to a copy at the Internet Archive</a>: https://archive.org/details/whatayounggirlo00allegoog

Episode 2 - Flowers in the Attic

Your intrepid librarian host delves into those dusty corners of the bookshelf to retrieve gems you probably have never heard of. Episodes usually run along one of the following themes: Back of the Stacks (public domain works of fiction or nonfiction), Ridic Fic (how was THIS published? No, seriously), Cavalcade of Comics (Golden Age comics from lesser known franchises, usually genre-based). Transcripts and source lists: http://bit.ly/4gotlib If you like this, buy me a coffee! https://www.buymeacoffee.com/forgottenlib