For your entertainment

If you're into femoribilia as much as I am (glamour guides from the 50s, etc.), you've got to read Pink Think by Lynn Peril. I read 40 pages in a crowded bar on margarita pitcher night on Wednesday, not only because I'm extremely cool, but also because the book is that good. A fun sidebar -- a nugget, if you will -- from the book, offering actual definitions of terms from sex education books of the 1940s - 1960s:

According to the Experts: A Glossary

hermaphrodite "A female bisexual" (Lois Pemberton, The Stork Didn't Bring You, 1948)

homosexual "A bad boy or bad man who wants to play with the penis of another boy just to get the pleasure out of doing it" (Father Francis Filas, audio recording, Sex Education of Children, 1964)

masturbation "A tyrant that robs its [female] victims of the incentives and radiant energy for worthy accomplishments. ... Oftentimes the remedy for this situation consists of a minor surgical operation spoken of as circumcision." (Harold Shyrock, M.D., On Becoming Sweethearts, 1951)

orgasm (male) "Takes place shortly after the penis enters the vagina" (Pemberton)

orgasm (female) "No more essential for conception than a mink coat or a lipstick" (Maxine Davis, Sex and the Adolescent, 1958)

penis "The muscular organ through which [boys] urinate" (Pemberton)

sex "Works only in marriage" (Fr. Filas)

testicles "Hang in a pouchy sac ... one slightly above the other for your comfort and convenience" (Pemberton)

vagina "The female receptacle" (Fr. Filas)