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"Practical Psychology," Formerly "Mind Power Plus," Author of Practical Psychology and Sex Life, Etc. [Series] Volume IV. Chicago: David V. Bush, Publisher, 225 North Michigan Blvd., [c. 1924]. 18½ cm. 303 pp. Ads on pp. [1-4] and 278-303. Original red cloth gilt-lettered on spine and front board. Binding faded, worn and somewhat shaken; internally very good. $65 OCLC shows only this year of publication, with two versions: 1) a shorter, 276- page edition, also published by Bush (8 locations, but none in New York); and 2) the present 303-page version, located in one copy, at the University of British Columbia. A highly colloquial, pragmatic approach badly needed at the time. Aside from a curious excursion into phrenology in some chapters, the author's suggestions are frequently intelligent and always encouraging. MASTURBATION, pp. 17, 162, 225-26, 231 and 239; see also pp. 227-29, 249-50 and 253-54 for collateral topics. Bush insists on minimizing any discussion of the causes of impotence and related ills, preferring an upbeat and positive approach. He seems not to take masturbation too seriously, but instead passes over the subject whenever possible without any seeming horror of the subject. Beware of Quacks There are human wolves strutting about in sheep's clothing, who will give you advice and the wrong kind of advice at that, for a paltry dollar, and when they get you on the string, the chances are they will bleed you to the very last dime, The medicines they give and the stuff they recommend are liable to make you worse in the end than you were before. Beware of quacks, and also remember that not many reputable general practitioners are well versed in sexology, so if you are going to call upon a physician, before taking his advice, visit a dozen of them. [p. 249] Allowing for the times, Bush handles his subject in a manner intended to enlighten rather than to suppress, and he is highly critical of "religionists" and "purity" authors who would prefer to keep people in miserable ignorance of their own sex potential and needs. One of his remedies for declining sex power, however (pp. 253-54), is but an abbreviation (to ten minutes instead of twenty) of the amusing slap-and-massage torture of the genitals prescribed a decade earlier by Dr. Kiplinger (see item 63 in this catalog). In most regards, Bush is highly sensitive to women. Over and over again throughout the book, he admonishes new husbands, particularly, to understand the need to initiate first sexual experiences gradually and with emotional and physiological understanding . . . 12
The whole affair [the wedding night] is new to the average sensitive, Anglo- Saxon woman, constrained by her centuries of counsel about the indecencies of sex. She comes to the bridal chamber in most cases [p. 161 ends] in a very timid, fearful, mental attitude. If she has been chaste all her life and never even indulged in masturbation, she is in a spirit of trepidation that any man might well appreciate if he would only take a second's thought. In the great majority of cases the man has some idea of what he is about to experience. Not one man out of one hundred comes to marriageable age but that some time in his life he has given rein to sexual emotion. [pp. 162-63] 10 BYRUM, E[noch]. E[dwin]. THE BOY'S COMPANION, Or, A Warning Against the Secret Vice and Other Bad Habits. By E. E. Byrum, Author of "Divine Healing of Soul and Body." Illustrated. Grand Junction, Michigan: Gospel Trumpet Publishing Company, 1893. 15 cm. iv pp.; [2]ff.; [11]-92 pp. [complete thus] + line-drawing frontispiece of a boy angel (or boy Jesus). Orig. green blind-decorated cloth, gilt-lettered on front board. Medium wear. $125 First of four editions shown by OCLC (1893, 1899, 1900 and 1906), locating five copies of this earliest edition (Princeton; University of Florida; Anderson University (Indiana); and two in University of Michigan libraries). I find no edition offered for sale on the Internet (October 24, 2010). 13
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