Vintage Wedding Gfift - Naughty

June 21, 2008 6:31 PM

Can you help me with titles, online shopping sources for 1950s tongue-in-cheek sex/marriage manual?

I'm looking for something like "Is Sex Neccessary" or "Having a Baby Can Be a Scream" that was published in the mid- to late fifties. This is for a gag gift so condition is not an issue. Title, author, or even dim memory of a book would be helpful.

My local library and combined catalogues are having trouble with the humor-sex combination.

posted by Lesser Shrew to shopping (5 comments total)

Previously. I suspect many of the resources listed would work for you as well.
posted by roger ackroyd at 7:40 PM on June 21, 2008

eBay is full of these.
posted by Nelson at 8:20 PM on June 21, 2008

This looks like the sort of thing you're looking for (found through roger ackroyd's "Previously" link).
posted by lukemeister at 9:05 PM on June 21, 2008

AbeBooks was completely unknown to me and actually lets me search the way I want to.
I found a Cartoon Guide to the Battle of the Sexes from the exact year I was looking for.
Whoo hoo and thanks so very much.
posted by Lesser Shrew at 5:43 PM on June 22, 2008

Probably not appropriate, but I've always liked Dr. Seuss's short story he wrote back in his college days called The Facts of Life or How should I tell My Child? It's in The Tough Coughed as He Ploughed the Dough and is pretty frickin hilarious imho
posted by Redhush at 9:55 AM on June 23, 2008