Sex as it used to be?
• Heterogeneous
According to a study released this year by the Kinsey Institute, women in the 1950s did indeed have more sex than their modern counterparts, because the exhaustion caused today by juggling a career and children decreases sex drive. ...
Even during the 1940s, information about how to please a woman was available for anyone who looked. In his book The Ideal Marriage, Dutch gynecologist Theodore Hendrick van de Velde is explicit about what needs to be done, offering 10 "possible" positions. He even encourages men to give a "genital kiss" to pleasure their partners. Although it was written in the 1920s, this book sold half-a-million copies in America between 1945 and the 1970s.
Patricia Bailey, The Ottawa Citizen: Was sex in the Leave it To Beaver era more enthralling than we imagined?