"Kiss without shame, for she desires it": sexual foreplay in American marital advice literature, 1900-1925.

In 1932, a young man named Arthur sought advice from William J. Fielding, the author of Sanity and Sex, Sex and the Love-Life and several "little blue books" on sexual topics. "I am contemplating marriage with a virtuous, beautiful Southern girl who is the acme of all my ideals in woman," he wrote, "but ... I am afraid. Yes afraid, because I am under a terrible fear that I am impotent.... The facts are these. I realize that in order to get the maximum degree of pleasure out of sexual intercourse, the husband must learn to control his discharge of semen until the wife is about to…