{"id":89053,"date":"2015-08-21T09:40:29","date_gmt":"2015-08-21T13:40:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/?p=89053"},"modified":"2015-08-21T10:21:55","modified_gmt":"2015-08-21T14:21:55","slug":"britains-best-selling-sex-ed-guide-and-other-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2015\/08\/21\/britains-best-selling-sex-ed-guide-and-other-news\/","title":{"rendered":"Britain\u2019s Best-selling Sex-Ed Guide, and Other News"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_89054\" style=\"width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/aristotle.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-89054\" class=\"wp-image-89054\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/aristotle.jpg\" alt=\"aristotle\" width=\"600\" height=\"435\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/aristotle.jpg 624w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/aristotle-300x217.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (min-width: 62.5em) 67vw, 100vw\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-89054\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">From <i>Aristotle\u2019s Masterpiece<\/i>.<\/p><\/div>\n<ul>\n<li>First published in London in 1684, <em>Aristotle\u2019s Masterpiece <\/em>is \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/publicdomainreview.org\/2015\/08\/19\/when-the-birds-and-the-bees-were-not-enough-aristotles-masterpiece\/\" target=\"_blank\">one of the best-selling books ever produced in English on sex and making babies<\/a>.\u201d Aristotle, at the time, had assumed a role in the popular culture as an ancient sex expert; \u201chis\u201d sex guide reads in parts like the <em>Kama Sutra<\/em> in cheeky British doggerel, and it\u2019s complete with a woodcut of a woman in dishabille, so teenagers probably masturbated to it. \u201cBut the book also provided a solid framework of contemporary knowledge about the basics of pregnancy, childbirth, and infant health, detailing topics such as the signs of pregnancy, how to tell false labor from true, the various positions the baby might present in, et cetera. Not surprisingly, since it was plagiarized from another midwifery book, this information was largely unexceptional.\u201d It makes a cameo in <em>Ulysses.<\/em><\/li>\n<li>\u201cI attend a diplomatic soiree and as I am leaving my pants fall down (Is it desire?) \u2026 Cannibals. You were on an island and some black cannibals jumped out and they put you on the grill and poured oil on you. You, so peaceful. They ate you and they reported saying that the meat was hard and had to fatten more.\u201d Santiago Ram\u00f3n y Cajal discovered the neuron and hypothesized the function of synapses\u2014which was a boon for science and all\u2014but more important, <a href=\"http:\/\/nautil.us\/issue\/27\/dark-matter\/read-the-lost-dream-journal-of-the-man-who-discovered-neurons\" target=\"_blank\">he kept a dream journal, and it is piquant<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>Art has come to valorize depression, clearly, and to see genius in melancholy\u2014but in the culture at large, thanks to pharmacology, depressives are still stigmatized. \u201cStigmatization and sanctification come with real ethical dangers. On the one hand, there is the danger that hidden in the wish for the elimination of depressive symptoms is a wish for the elimination of other essential attributes of the depressed person \u2026 On the other hand there is the danger of taking pleasure in the pain of the melancholic, and of adding the expectation of insight to the already oppressive expectations the melancholic likely has for herself \u2026 The language used in both discourses <a href=\"http:\/\/thepointmag.com\/2015\/examined-life\/melancholy?utm_content=bufferf5a07&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_source=twitter.com&amp;utm_campaign=buffer\" target=\"_blank\">bears a striking resemblance to the language the depressed person uses in her own head<\/a>.\u201d<\/li>\n<li>Considered as a text, the Nashville music industry\u2019s collected lyrics have one clear id\u00e9e fixe: adultery. Even in the twenties, tunes like \u201cThe Jealous Sweetheart\u201d and \u201cThe Mountaineer\u2019s Courtship\u201d wept over the wayward heart; by the time \u201cJolene\u201d came around, the style had become an archetype, if not a formula. \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.atlasobscura.com\/articles\/nashvilles-cheatin-heart-why-country-music-has-been-obsessed-with-adultery-for-the-last-century\" target=\"_blank\">Cheating songs have a lot of moving parts. All of them have at least three characters, each of which can be the narrator or the person being addressed<\/a> \u2026 Country music has a somewhat limited palate, and adultery is one its primary colors. \u2018To say something fresh and literal is the hardest thing\u2019 \u2026 But if you have a mess of variables to slot into your tried-and-true story structure, it gets a little easier.\u201d<\/li>\n<li>The refined songcraft of one James \u201cJimmy\u201d Buffett, meanwhile, focuses its talents almost exclusively on epicurean pleasures. \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/luckypeach.com\/wasting-away-in-margaritaville\/\" target=\"_blank\">Food and drink are central to the ethos of Jimmy Buffett<\/a>, and even the most casual fan can rattle off a handful of songs that orbit around seaside eats. There are lesser known gems like 1994\u2019s \u2018Fruitcakes\u2019 (<em>Half-baked cookies in the oven \/ Half-baked people on the bus \/ There\u2019s a little bit of fruitcake left in everyone of us<\/em>) and 1970s classic \u2018Grapefruit-Juicy Fruit\u2019 (<em>Grapefruit, a bathin\u2019 suit, chew a little Juicy Fruit \/ Wash away the night<\/em>).\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>First published in London in 1684, Aristotle\u2019s Masterpiece is \u201cone of the best-selling books ever produced in English on sex and making babies.\u201d Aristotle, at the time, had assumed a role in the popular culture as an ancient sex expert; \u201chis\u201d sex guide reads in parts like the Kama Sutra in cheeky British doggerel, and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":38,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2512],"tags":[617,19214,19216,513,493,8752,1666,19215,17037],"class_list":["post-89053","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-on-the-shelf","tag-adultery","tag-aristotles-masterpiece","tag-country-music","tag-depression","tag-dreams","tag-jimmy-buffett","tag-nashville","tag-santiago-ramon-y-cajal","tag-sex-ed"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v25.4 (Yoast SEO v25.4) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>The Sex Ed Guide That Titillated Britain for Centuries<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"\u201cAristotle\u2019s Masterpiece\u201d was not by Aristotle, but it is some kind of masterpiece. 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