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Oh! Well! You Know How Women Are!

Isn’t That Just Like a Man!

April 2, 2019 Holly Life, Death, Love, and Marriage 13 comments

Oh Well! You Know How Women Are! and Isn’t That Just Like a Man! Cobb 1920 Submitter: I came across this gem on our discards cart. It comes from an undisclosed university library in the Pacific Northwest. This book was

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sexually adequate male

Guys, You Can Be Sexually Adequate

July 17, 2018 Mary Kelly Life, Death, Love, and Marriage 7 comments

The Sexually Adequate Male Caprio 1965 It is the word “adequate” that has me in stitches with this title. I am hardly panting for an “adequate” man, but I don’t believe in overselling either. For the most part, this book

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Make Love to a Man – 70’s style

February 21, 2017 Mary Kelly Life, Death, Love, and Marriage 16 comments

How to Make Love to a Single Man How to meet him, understand him, and love him Rajouane 1976 Evidently, it is a LOT of work to get men interested in sex. This comprehensive manual of nearly 200 pages details

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Bums! NSFW!

May 22, 2015 Holly Looking Good 12 comments

A Woman Looks at Men’s Bums Jenkins 1983 Submitter: Found this gem in our university library and had to share. It’s a book of photographs of, well, the title is fairly self-explanatory really! It’s from 1983 (which surprised me, from

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Masculine Men

November 14, 2014 Holly Feelings and Self Help 12 comments

The American Male: A Penetrating Look at the Masculinity Crisis. Brenton 1966 Submitter: Well Boohoo! Men being oppressed. Let me get a tissue. 1966? I can understand this book being in an academic library. A public library? Patrons need updated

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Beefcake

August 9, 2011 Holly Looking Good 35 comments

Warning!  Potentially unsafe for work!   Beefcake: The Muscle Magazines of America 1950-1970 Hooven 1995 Holly: I know what you’re thinking.  And you’d be right: this is a book about male standards of beauty. The only thing that makes this an

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A Man a Can a Plan - cover

Even Men Can Cook!

March 6, 2011 Holly You Ate What? 47 comments

A Man, A Can, A Plan: 50 Great Guy Meals Even You Can Make Joachim and the editors of Men’s Health 2002 Submitter: I found this gem of a cookbook (if we can even call it that) at a library

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