Unmentionable : : the Victorian Lady's Guide to Sex, Marriage, and Manners

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Hello, slattern -- Getting dressed : how to properly hide your shame -- Bowels into buckets : nature is an obscene caller -- The treacherous art of bathing -- Menstruation : you're doing it wrong -- Diet : you're a little bag of pudding -- Beauty : scorch, slather, and stuff -- Courtship : not-talking your way into his heart -- The wedding night, or : A bad bit of bumbo -- Birth control and other affronts to God -- Being a good wife : how to avoid his eventual resentment for as long as possible -- Running a proper household : the gentle art of dictatorship -- Public behavior : avoiding scorn, dangers, and museums -- It's hysterical : the least funny thing about Victorian life -- The secret vice : "Where warts and tiny nipples come from" -- Conclusion : I miss pants.
"A scandalously honest guide to the secrets of Victorian womanhood. "If Unmentionable does not secure the Pulitzer Prize for Most Fascinating Book Ever, the whole gig is rigged. Therese Oneill opens the doors to everything we secretly wanted to know about the Victorian era, but didn't think to ask. Knickers with no crotches? Check. Arsenic as a facial scrub? Check. The infrequency of bathing and the stench of the Victorian human body? Check mate"-- provided by publisher.

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Funny submitted by Pooh3238 on June 20, 2018, 12:02pm This book had me laughing quite a bit. It teaches you about women in the Victorian age with humor. Some of the things it mentions are hard to believe they were true--but they were. And the way it teaches you and talks about it, makes it a really great read.

Stranger than Fiction! submitted by unknown on July 3, 2019, 10:13pm Hilarious, enlightening, and very well researched. I enjoyed every chapter!