A Thing or Two

I'm still here --- suffering from a double ear infection and no real promise of getting better. I've been talking inside my head for days now and can't even hear myself type.

This past weekend was a success, though. Spent time with my lovelies at work, testing beverages at the Tea Garden, wandering around Grand Ave, eating at Blondie's, and buying things at the Antique Mall. By far my best purchase was a book called Ideal Marriage: Its Physiology and Technique by Dr. Van de Velde, Copyright 1926. I read the opening lines and knew I had to get it:

"Marriage - in Christian civilization at least - is often a failure. On that point there can be no manner of doubt. It can be the gate of an earthly Eden, but it is, in actual fact, often a hell of torment." (insert laughing out loud in the store)

Most of the book deals with sexuality and a very scientific approach to the human body and sexual union. Not that marriage is a subject to be taken lightly, but it is intriguing to read his views from eighty years ago. He is blunt, to the point, and his subject matter is pretty great. I love a good laugh, and who knows? I might learn a thing or two.