• more about #1950s
    Jeenzy: Female sex organs--how virgin differs Virgins have sex organs which play angelic music when pressed! Non-virgins possess vaginas which when directly... more »
    pesematology: "how often intercourse", "uncontrolled self abortion", "too much or too little intercourse controlled" This stuff just sounds like an engrish porn si... more »
    mightymomo: Female sex organ--how virgin differs. WHAT??!?! How a virgin differs for a man or how the virgin herself feels the first time? #modernsexmanual more »
    aclikeslater: Something tells me obtaining this would be like the time I drunkenly ordered 10,001 Kitchen Secrets off eBay. More like 10,001 random-ass "facts" like... more »
    wtfox?!: Best time and place for sex act. There's only ONE?! #modernsexmanual more »
    TexasCrude: I love that uncontrollable abortion is on there. I can't control my abortion happy self, either. I have to have someone drag me away from the PP every... more »
    sarasasa: Color pictures! Great! Otherwise how can you tell what is what and what goes where? #modernsexmanual more »
    grumpelstiltskin: If I had to envision a portrait of a blissful married sex life, the cutouts of those two uncomfortable, stern-looking couples would definitely be it.... more »
    JerkoftheMonth is changing her name!: My grandparents actually DO fit into the 50s stereotypes. Not that they are 2-dimensional, which a lot of people on here refute, but that they behaved... more »
    rednrowdy: the problem is that the baby boomers remember the 50's as being stricter because they were kids then, and since everything in society seems to be aime... more »
    TheFormerJuneBronson: I had something like this reaction when I finally actually sat down and saw all 234 episodes of Leave It To Beaver (it was shortly before I named myse... more »
    Eric Northman is mine: God, i love love letters (writing and receiving). And not just the mushy intimate ones also funny and sexy kind. Shame it's a dying mode of communicat... more »
    laureltreedaphne: This is actually one of my major problems with Mad Men, and the reason I haven't been able to get in to it. I feel like they DO portray men as one dim... more »
    Penny: One only needs to read Regan's letters to know that men could have feelings in the 50's. Say what you will about the man, he was a good letter writer... more »
    sybann: My dad was a fifties male and he was so sensitive he actually won my hardass mom over - and to this day she still says no one else would have managed ... more »
    Bgirl_Hamster: "I sometimes think the word love is inadequate to express all the tender and stirring emotions I feel – it's the little things – the sound of your... more »
    Bunny Themelis: ""The Modern Pinup" seems, in its postmodern obliviousness, to take what it wanted of the era and conveniently forget the rest." And this is a problem... more »
    nacho_supreme: I totally agree with LacyBones. Jesus, Jezebels. '"The Modern Pinup" seems, in its postmodern obliviousness, to take what it wanted of the era and con... more »
    Fatwetdog: There's a fair amount of tension between women who dress like that. I love the clothes, and the hair. I love the rockabilly aesthetic, and the fully m... more »
    hippichx sez PEACE PLEASE: that sort of look has always struck me as a female empowerment symbol... and i don't mean empowered to bake cupcakes. meanwhile, spending that much t... more »
  • #oldiesbutgoodies

    "1950s Remedies For Abnormal And Normal Men And Women"

    "Don't be old-fashioned," says this sex manual from the oh-so-enlightened 1950s. Topics include "first bridal sex act" (hottt) and "sensation parts of woman" — but why is the very first one on the list "blood relation marriage?" [Vintage Ads]
  • #retromodern

    Wait: Even In The 50s, Men Had Feelings?

    In the article "Touchy-Feely 'Mad Men'? My Mom's Love Letters Show a Softer '50s Male," this writer explored a cache of his mother's old love letters and learned that men of the 50s were not, in fact-2D. More »
  • #livingthedream

    You, Madam, Are No Bettie Page

    As a few articles from the weekend prove, women who fancy themselves "Modern Pin-Ups" often ignore the realities of the 1950s. (But, yes, the hair was great!) More »
  • #dailyfail

    Brave Reporter Takes On The Sacred Cow Of 1950s Suburbia

    Because Betty Draper makes it look so idyllic (?), a Daily Mail writer takes on the brave task of living as a Mad Men wife for a week. More »
  • #oldiesbutgoodies

    The Female Spiral Of Shame In Post-War Suburbia

    We love this 1954 educational film "Bad Habits" More »
  • #labtechnicianforgirlsset

    Oldie But Goodie

  • #inbrief

    Oldies But Goodies

  • #oldiesbutgoodies

    Good Housekeeping