Sylvanus Stall, D.D.
(8 October 1847 – 6 November 1915)
– Released What a Young Man Ought to Know in 1897.
– The text is divided into “Cylinders” rather than chapters, because Stall’s treatise was originally recorded as a sermon on phonograph cylinders. (These cylinders were sold alongside the transcribed editions, and may have been the first audiobooks.)
Mrs. Mary Wood Allen, M.D.
– National lecturer of the Woman’s Christian Temperance Union on heredity and hygiene (Appointed World Purity Superintendent).
– Regarded as a medical as well as moral authority in matters of sex and health. Contemporaries stressed her medical know-how, and credibility as a health educator.
Mrs. Emma F. Angell Drake, M.D.
– Also W. C. T. U. lecturer on Temperance and Social reform topics in United States and Canada.
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Foucault on the Interplay of Truth and Sex (The History of Sexuality, p. 56)
“Around and apropos of sex an immense apparatus for producing truth, even if this truth was to be masked at the last moment. The essential point is that sex was not only a matter of sensation and pleasure, of law and taboo, but also of truth and falsehood, that the truth of sex became something fundamental, useful, or dangerous, precious or formidable: in short that sex was constituted as a problem of truth.”
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“What Eminent People in America Say” of What Every Young Girl Should Know.
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Denied access to the morning after pill, 17 April 2012, by Sarah Arboleda