The Secret Habits of the Female Sex

The Secret Habits of the Female Sex

Author: Jean Dubois

Year: 1848

Claims to be an anti-masturbation tract, containing an introduction 24 letters addressed to an anonymous adolescent girl 8 letters addressed to her mother a medical prescription This is presumably a plausibly-deniable cover for erotica, given the other works advertised at the back and the four colour plates showing naked women, which have no obvious connection to the text. Full title: The secret habits of the female sex; letters addressed to a mother on the evils of solitude, and its seductive temptation to young girls, the premature victims of a pernicious passion, with all its frightful consequences: deformity of mind and body, destruction of beauty, and entailing disease and death; but from which, by attention to the timely warning here given, the devotee may be saved, and become an ornament to society, a virtuous wife, and a refulgent mother! Apparently a translation from the French of Jean Dubois, MD. The front cover had a mirror inset, now lost. There is a typewritten insert among the front few pages, unreadable in this scan.