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).  This podcast is marked explicit because I occasionally use four-letter words. 

If you are unable to listen to the podcast, a transcript is available: https://drive.google.com/open?id=17Vg7-7XTwkVdEs-2FFj1RwOFul0w2PgW

Source material for this episode: 

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: https://doi.org/10.1353/bh.2011.0009

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. Link to a copy at the Internet Archive: https://archive.org/details/whatayounggirlo00allegoog