My mother, a hard-working woman who raised twelve kids single-handedly whilst doing all the ironing (as nature intended), was furtively abashed by her illiteracy. It enabled them, finally, to write things (although they may not yet know to do so on paper but you can only expect so much, really). I bought it for all my female friends and relatives. Women who read that book may also enjoy Bic For Her serious product (pink and purple ballpoint pens, from what I can tell), hilariously reviewed by real Amazon.uk reviewers: You could probably find all of these books along with customer reviews on Amazon. Laura said, but my recollection of what I heard about it was that it was another "give-your-husband-lots-of-sex" books. By that time I was done with the genre, so I don't know what Dr. I think that one of the latest books along those lines was one by Dr. The latter I sarcastically reviewed for a college class in feminism. Its added twist, as I recall, was to give your husband lots of sex. A decade or so later, there was another book along the same lines written by an Evangelical Christian. My husband's aunt highly recommended it to me. I got married in the late 60s when this book was very popular among a lot of Mormon women. All I know about it is what's on this website. Someone named Erin Fox has raised money to make a documentary about it. It was said to be unsexy.Īlthough later the guy who was second in command-and married-hit on me.įor those interested in content, the most famous of the Helen Andelin tips for women was to wait for your husband to come home and then swing the door open wearing only saran wrap. I was singled out as a bad example for standing in a masculine stance (legs apart) while wearing jeans (instead of a skirt) and sticking my thumbs in my pants thereby causing all my fingers to point to my vag. In addition to learning important skills like purchasing hair ribbons with lac edges, Watson informed the class of women that they must lick their husbands "everywhere." His own wife then rushed out of the room leaving behind a great silence.
He had a cult thing going on with the principles and the following is an accurate story of what I personally witnessed in his seminar. Watson was quite paranoid with death threats and bodyguards, lots of secrecy, etc.
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He accompanies his marriage make-over with a seminar in Portland, Oregon and interviewed me to be the manager of his family-oriented movie theater.īecause I was an emotional mess and quite the sucker, I bought the tapes and attended the seminar. The sets sold for $500 each in a suitcase. Watson, a self-proclaimed marriage guru in the early 70's in Portland, Oregon. Fascinating Womanhood and Man of Steel and Velvet read on tapes by a Dr.