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100 1 _aWood, Clement,
_d1888-1950
245 1 0 _aManhood
264 1 _aSalt Lake City, UT :
_bProject Gutenberg,
_c2026
300 _a1 online resource :
_bmultiple file formats
336 _atext
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337 _acomputer
_bc
_2rdamedia
338 _aonline resource
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490 1 _aLittle blue book ; no. 91
500 _aRelease date is 2026-02-10
508 _aTim Miller, chenzw, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive)
520 _aManhood by Clement Wood is a sex-education and social-hygiene handbook written in the early 20th century. It addresses male adolescence, love, mating, and sexual ethics, aiming to replace taboo and superstition with clear knowledge, responsible choice, and mutual respect. The book opens with adolescence, urging frank parental and school instruction about the body, warning against early indulgence, and encouraging physical fitness and self-control. It traces the evolution of love—natural, romantic, and conjugal—adds a psychoanalytic arc from self-love to heterosexual maturity, and argues for growing gender equality in choosing mates. Wood lays out an ethics of mating that weighs companionship, children, and continuing courtship; promotes eugenic screening and birth control; and surveys futurist ideas (state eugenics, ectogenesis) alongside cautions about state abuse. He calls for systematic sex education in schools and homes and treats lovemaking as an art requiring patience and empathy. A section on mistakes warns against overindulgence, emphasizes restraint in youth, and details the dangers of gonorrhea and syphilis. He redefines chastity as intelligent selection rather than abstinence, sketches a more flexible single standard for both sexes, advocates easier, dignified divorce when love ends, and concludes with an ideal of purity grounded in health, knowledge, and consideration for the partner and future children. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
534 _pOriginally published:
_cGirard: Haldeman-Julius Company, 1924
653 _aSex instruction for men
700 1 _aHaldeman-Julius, E.
_q(Emanuel),
_d1888-1951
830 0 _aLittle blue book ; no. 91
856 4 _uhttps://archive.org/details/manhoodfactsofli91wood/mode/2up
856 4 0 _uhttps://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/77903
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