A couple days ago, I was exploring a girlfriend’s house, and found several old books published in the mid to late 1800′s. One of them especially caught my eye: Light on Dark Corners: A Complete Sexual Science, an 1895 guidebook for young people about health, courting, marriage, sex, and more. I’m sure I don’t need to elaborate on how uptight the mentality on anything sexual was in the Victorian era, and the book touches on a lot of “sciences”, such as phrenology, that were widely accepted at the time.
I’m still in the process of reading it, and because of my habit of juggling several books at once, it may be a while before I’ve seen all the content. But the next few updates, I’m going to be making a departure from the topic of steampunk, to scan and share interesting pages, as I discover them. Hopefully you’ll find the book as entertaining and interesting as I do.
