1955 Good Wife's Guide?

[Guest]

A bunch of nurses at work were expressing shock at this supposed 1955 "Good Wife's Guide" from Good Housekeeping. My favorite one is "Don't complain if he's late home for dinner or even if he's out all night. Count this as minor compared to what he might have gone through that day." Of course, I don't know if this article is real...

[+ azdr0710]

I feel a song coming on....

 

[+ Gar1eth]

A bunch of nurses at work were expressing shock at this supposed 1955 "Good Wife's Guide" from Good Housekeeping. My favorite one is "Don't complain if he's late home for dinner or even if he's out all night. Count this as minor compared to what he might have gone through that day." Of course, I don't know if this article is real...

 

Wait-you are saying these rules no longer apply? Maybe that's why I'm finding it so difficult to find a date!!!

 

Gman

[+ FreshFluff]

In many happy straight relationships I'm aware of, one person plays this role. In a few cases, it's the husband. In most cases, it's the wife.

[+ purplekow]

My favorite was rule #3 Be a little gay and a little more interesting for him. His boring day may need a lift and one of your duties is to provide it.

While the other rules really speak of trying to present the home as a place of peace and order in a hectic life, which while dated in its presentation, it is a reasonable goal.

Rule #3 however, says, get a gay man for your husband so that he gets a lift when he gets home. Now that is a rule I can really get behing.

[AdamSmith]

The good wife's humiliations were endless, it seems.

 

[+ purplekow]

And it gives the vagina that hmmmmmm good Lysol odor so you know it is clean enough to eat off. So when he gets home, you can answer the question Honey what's for dinner? With that five letter word that means freshness and good taste. Pasta

[+ Gar1eth]

And it gives the vagina that hmmmmmm good Lysol odor so you know it is clean enough to eat of. So when he gets home, you can answer the question Honey what's for dinner? With that five letter word that means freshness and good taste. Pasta

 

 

That was reprehensible of Lysol. I wonder how many women suffered serious injury from using it as a douche.

 

Gman

[+ Italiano]

Were they promoting oral sex?...

[AdamSmith]

Were they promoting oral sex?...

Listerine douche?

[nate_sf]

Sorry folks... while the Good Housekeeping article is amusing, it is a hoax:

 

http://www.snopes.com/history/document/goodwife.asp

 

The write-up provided by snopes is pretty interesting though.

 

Sadly, the Lysol douche ads appear to be the real deal....

[+ Gar1eth]

Sorry folks... while the Good Housekeeping article is amusing, it is a hoax:

 

http://www.snopes.com/history/document/goodwife.asp

 

The write-up provided by snopes is pretty interesting though.

 

Sadly, the Lysol douche ads appear to be the real deal....

 

But Nate, while most likely a hoax per Snopes (Snopes mentions this as supposedly coming from a Home Economics textbook not a GH Article. And they yet report not having found any textbook listing these steps ...), Snopes does go on to say...

 

"

Whether the piece at hand is a genuine excerpt from a yet-undiscovered home economics textbook, it is nonetheless a relatively accurate reflection of the mainstream vision of a woman's appointed role in post-war America, as evinced by such educational training films as "The Home Economics Story" (made familiar to a whole new generation of youngsters through its spoofing on the popular Mystery Science Theater 3000 program). "

 

 

Gman

[Tonyko]

May have been a hoax but STILL pretty close to the general 'tudes of the era no??? (what's most shocking to me is that despite all that pampering the husband STILL died first)

[mattr]

With a few edits and a new graphic, it could be the 2015 Good Escorts Guide!

[AdamSmith]

With a few edits and a new graphic, it could be the 2015 Good Escorts Guide!

[+ azdr0710]

as evinced by such educational training films as "The Home Economics Story" (made familiar to a whole new generation of youngsters through its spoofing on the popular Mystery Science Theater 3000 program). "

 

whoa!!!....I couldn't let an MST3K clip on this get by me.....thanks, Gman, for the heads-up on this

 

[AdamSmith]

Horrifying vintage ads from the Twenties and Thirties that pushed LYSOL as a 'safe and mild' method of birth control

• Many of the ads included quotes from 'expert European doctors' who endorsed Lysol as a contraceptive
   
   
  
• Later investigation by the American Medical Association found that these doctors did not exist
  

DailyMail.co.uk

 

It may sound unbelievable now, but there was a time when douching with Lysol was the most popular form of contraceptive.

 

Despite the fact that the antiseptic soap was ineffective and sometimes caused vaginal burns, inflammation and even death, ads in the Twenties and Thirties continually pushed it as a safe and gentle method of birth control, even up until the Fifties.

 

One such ad describes Lysol as 'the perfect antiseptic for marriage hygiene,' claiming: 'The fact that it is used as an antiseptic in childbirth is evidence that it is safe and mild enough for even the most sensitive female membranes.'

 

 

http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2014/05/12/article-2626297-1DC61E2100000578-78_634x812.jpg

 

How times have changed: It may sound unbelievable now, but there was a time when douching with Lysol was the most popular form of contraceptive, aggressively marketed as 'safe' and 'mild'

 

The method is also alluded to in an episode of Boardwalk Empire in which Nucky's mistress Margaret Schroeder is seen concealing a pregnancy prevention kit.

 

Today, of course, a bottle of Lysol - which is commonly used as a toilet cleaner and disinfectant - comes with warnings on the label that read 'flammable' and 'for external use only'.

 

But in the days when contraception and abortion were illegal and seen as deplorable, Lysol was viewed as a cheap and easy solution which could be purchased over the counter.

 

The Lysol of the Twenties and Thirties contained much more potent ingredients than the Lysol of today, with chemicals that caused irritation and burning.

 

According to Andrea Tone's 2001 book Devices and Desires: A History of Contraceptives in America, it was completely ineffective as a contraceptive.

 

http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2014/05/12/article-2626297-1DC61E1400000578-966_634x832.jpg

 

Convenient: In the days when contraception and abortion were illegal, Lysol was viewed as a cheap and easy post-coital solution which could be purchased over the counter

 

 

 

http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2014/05/12/article-2626297-1DC61E1B00000578-897_306x405.jpg

 

 

http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2014/05/12/article-2626297-1DC61E1B00000578-837_306x405.jpg

 

 

Deadly concoction: Not only was the antiseptic soap an ineffective form of birth control, but it was also harmful and sometimes caused vaginal burns, inflammation and even death

 

In fact, in a 1933 study, nearly half of the 507 participants who used Lysol as a form of birth control ended up falling pregnant.

 

'Manufacturers would use euphemisms to refer to birth control. They took advantage of consumers' hopes'

 

What's more, according to MotherJones.com, by 1911 doctors had recorded 193 poisonings caused by Lysol and five deaths from uterine irrigation.

 

Still, advertisers continued to encourage its use, aggressively marketing it as gentle and safe and using the terms 'marriage hygiene' and 'feminine hygiene' as euphemisms.

 

One of the ads from that era calls Lysol a 'certain' way to 'destroy germs in the presence of organic matter.'

 

 

http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2014/05/12/article-2626297-1DC61E2700000578-53_634x872.jpg

 

 

Fraudulent: Advertisers used the terms 'marriage hygiene' and 'feminine hygiene' as euphemisms and quoted 'expert doctors' endorsing Lysol who did not even exist

 

The ad continues: 'For years Lysol has been the choice of hospitals and clinics, for every surgical purpose, even in the delicate operations attending childbirth.'

 

It concludes with a doctor's endorsement of the antiseptic: 'I prescribe its regular use in marriage hygiene for the health and peace of mind of every wife.'

 

Later investigation by the American Medical Association found that the many European doctors quoted as experts in these ads did not even exist.

 

 

http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2014/05/12/article-2626297-1DC7036F00000578-386_634x302.jpg

 

Firmly in the past: Douching with Lysol (pictured in its modern form) was the most common form of birth control until 1960, when the oral contraceptive pill was introduced on the market

 

'The fraud of the Lysol douche was a byproduct of illegality,' Dr Tone writes in her book.

 

'Because birth control couldn't be advertised openly, manufacturers would use euphemisms to refer to birth control. They took advantage of consumers' hopes.'

 

Douching with Lysol was the most common form of birth control until 1960, when the oral contraceptive pill was introduced on the market.

 

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-2626297/Horrifying-vintage-ads-Twenties-Thirties-pushed-LYSOL-safe-mild-method-birth-control.html#ixzz3rxyxWoXD

[+ Gar1eth]

whoa!!!....I couldn't let an MST3K clip on this get by me.....thanks, Gman, for the heads-up on this

 

 

From the clip,"Would she smoke thin black cigarettes and reject the triune g-d?"

 

Gman

[+ glennnn]

Reminds me of a song riff from the 60's...

 

My baby is so much sweeter,

My baby is so much neater

Since she started that Coca-Cola douche.....

 

 

Altho 6 out of 10 men actually prefer Dad's Root Beer.