Sometimes I think the 1930s were a better time. I mean, sure they didn’t have iPhones  or free downloadable porn and the Great Depression was in full effect, but hey, the cars were badass and the dancing was… okay fine the cars were badass.

And when a piece of literature this fine comes around, you have to think that maybe they had it right, if only in a misogynistic, extreme patriarchal society type of way. This is a page from the book “The Art of Marriage,” published in 1926 (and reproduced here in 1931), and it discusses the dismal effect a woman’s frigidity can have on a marriage.

While we knew being a prude was annoying, we had no idea it was so detrimental, or that frigidity is passed on by genetics (?) but according to a 1930s textbook,  it is. WHO KNEW.