The Best of Sexology: Kinky and Kooky Excerpts from America's First Sex Magazine

By: Yoe Studios

Book Overview

Sexology , founded in 1933, was America's first sex magazine. Through its fifty-year run, Grandma and Grandpa got a rollicking taste of sexual exotica in articles such as... - Extra Breasts in Women -... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 076243323X
• ISBN13: 9780762433230
• Release Date: September 2008
• Publisher: Running Press Book Publishers
• Length: 480 Pages
• Weight: 1.23 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 5.7" x 8.1"

Customer Reviews

Morality, sexual vampirism, homosexual chickens and more

Before Playboy or Penthouse there was the 1933 magazine SEXOLOGY: THE ILLUSTRATED MAGAZINE OF SEX SCIENCE - and here to recreate a feel for the times is a facsimile hardcover containing some of the hilarious, zany articles and 'science' of the 1930s, from issues of 'phantom pregnancy' to 'sex among the Eskimos'. Morality, sexual vampirism, homosexual chickens and more are covered in a series of kinky, funny excerpts paired with black and white illustrations. General-interest lending libraries will find it a quirky, fun piece of health/science history certain to attract attention among browsers.

A bizarre historical look back at our varied sexuality

If you've even had sex with a chicken, or plan to, this is the book for you. (Finally an answer to the question, "which came first...") Sexology was the long-running magazine that talked about things you just didn't talk about, back in an era when that covered an awful lot of ground. This book collects some of the best - and strangest - from Sexology's long publishing history, including: Can Humans and Animals Crossbreed? How To Have a Successful Honeymoon, Types of French Prostitutes, and Sex Among the Eskimos. This isn't "Everything You Always Wanted To Know About Sex But Were Afraid To Ask." Instead, "The Best of Sexology" answers questions you never had about topics you didn't know existed. (Pregnant Men, When Midgets Marry) Celebrity value comes from discussing the proclivities of such famous individuals as Hitler, Napoleon, Victor Hugo, Ben Franklin and Satan. You'll have to buy the book to see which one had the oddest sex life. Sexual fetishes is a frequent topic, and the book covers many I'd never heard of (and can't wait to try!). But don't be fooled into thinking this is a hot book. A lot of the articles focus on freakish deformities (Humans with Tails!) taking any hint of eroticism out of the subject of sex. In a way, it's an exercise in talking about sex without being sexy. You'll read more stimulating descriptions in a cookbook. But that's what makes Sexology so fascinating. Imagine what it was like to read this stuff in the Fifties! From Elvis Presley to elephantiasis, The Best of Sexology covers all the various aspects of human sexuality, plus a few I think they made up.