In numerous places on the internet (including G. Gordon Liddy’s website!) you can find the text of a document called “Instruction and Advice for the Young Bride,” presumably written by “Ruth Smythers, beloved wife of The Reverend L.D. Smythers,
Pastor of the Arcadian Methodist Church,” and published in 1894.
Here’s a link to Mrs. Smyther’s sexual advice.
http://www.contrib.andrew.cmu.edu/us...mor/sexed.html
The subtitle of this purported marital guide is “on the Conduct and Procedure of the Intimate and Personal Relationship of the Marriage State or the Greater Spiritual Sanctity of this
Blessed Sacrament and the Glory of God.”
I don’t believe for a minute that this “instruction and advice” is what it claims to be. For one thing, in late Victorian times the word “sex” was seldom used; euphemisms like “conjugal relations” or “conjugal duties” were preferred. For another, the subtitle is downright screwy. Furthermore, there doesn’t seem to be any such institution as the Arcadian Methodist Church, and “Arcadian” suggests something legendary or mythological.
Finally, the website given has other items of a humorous nature.
So take it for what it probably is--a funny parody of sexual puritanism.
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