Something weighing heavily on your mind? Wishing you'd been warned about a peril into which you've inadvertantly fallen? Can a boy and girl be "just friends?" Just exactly what are the 64 arts of the Kama Sutra? Go on, face the peril...

	Just Friends? A Practical Guide to Boy-Girl Friendships A Reliable Booklet for Young Men and Women by Father and Son Welfare Movement of Australia, Aust. 1955 First edition. Paperback. Printed by "A Specialist organisation in the field of sex education, marriage and family life." The answer is pretty much a resounding NO unless you are wooing to wed. Pictures include photographs of wholesome activities as tug-o-war and reading near but not next to a girl. Ads include one for diamond rings and show a happy bride, one for the Commonwealth Bank and Coca-cola.
	Can A Young Man Trust His Bible? by Arthur Gook Pickering & Inglis Ltd. London. 1959 Can he? CAN he? Slim paperback which has been translated into Icelandic, Swedish, Finnish, Danish, Norwegian, French, Spanish, German, Estonian, Russian, Chinese and Braille for the blind. Chapter 1 starts "My answer is- Yes," which takes the mystery out of the book. Has a chapter "the Critic Criticised."
	British Union For Abolition of Vivesection- Melbourne Branch Debating and Study Circle Handbook by R.D. Lynch, A.I.C.A., Director Essendon Gazette Print. 1932 Soft cover. Practical hints for the use of anti-vivisection speakers and debaters. Not the use of vivisection as capital punishment, but for medical research. Encourages readers to use examples of claims of beneficial disease cures and prove that these are false and could have been done without opening a corpse at all.
	The Miracle of Right Thought by Orison Swett Marden William Rider & Sons, Ltd. London. 1910 Hardcover. One in a long line of Marden Inspirational Books. Photo of the author with a dapper moustache. Chapters of inspiring topics until Chapter 15 cheerily titled "Mental Self-Poisoning" where we learn that he who hates is an assassin. Fairly easy reading.
	The Sport Without A Smile A Treatice on the Principles of Gambling by Percy H. Chennell Gillingham & Co. Ltd. Adelaide, Sth Australia. 1934 Soft cover treatice on gambling and it's perils. Third editon. Forward by Rev. A. T. Holden of the Methodist Church of Australasia. Starts with "Ronbbery by Consent" and "The Tyranny of Slippery Chance." Includes "Is Marriage A Gamble?" and spirals down from there.
	Abortion- Right or Wrong? by Dorothy Thurtle C. A. Watts & Co London. (probable mid 1930's) Hardcover from our Member of the Interdepartmental Committee on Abortion & author of the Minority Report to the Ministry of Health and Home Office. I am a little unsure, but I believe the author is on the side of "Right" under the right circumstances. Includes "The Law In Foreign Countries," "Contraception" & "Ethics of Abortion."
	Sex by B. P. Wiesner. Phil. D., D.Sc. The Home University Library of Modern Knowledge Thornton Butterworth Ltd. London. 1936 Hardcover. First edition. Helpful illustrations including rat genitals and the relationship of plumage and gonads on ducks and Octopus mating positions. Lots of solid information about the human reproduction which is compared to animals for samples and pictures.
	How Did Sex Begin? The Sense and Nonsense of the Customs and Traditions That Have Seperated Man and Women Since Adam and Eve by R Brasch Angus & Robertson. 1973 Hardcover. Includes paper cutting about the dangers of the pill. Chapters on "Courting," "Superstitions in Sex," "Clothing Sex," "Illicit Relations," "Prostitution," "Talking Sex," "Out of The Ordinary" and "The End of Sex." Easy Reading.
	The Mythology of Sex new book
	Suggestion and Autosuggestion A Pyschological and Pedagogical Study Based upon the Investigations Made by the New Nancy School by Charles Baudouin translated from the French by Eden and Cedar Paul George Allen & Unwin. London. 1922 Includes some opinions of the press, glossary, index at backwith interesting words like witches, toads (phobia of), Veni Creator, telepathy, senility of the laranyx etc.
	How To Understand Philosophy From Socrates to Bergson by A. E. Baker Hodder & Stoughton Ltd. London. n.d. Hardcover. The People's Library. No date but inscribed with owner's name 1925. Easy reading on philosophers through the ages and compacted chapters of their achievements of philosophies. I'm not sure that book would help you understand it if you didn't to start with.
	Ask Margaret Harwood by "Margaret Harwood" (not her real name) The Epworth Press, London. 1950 Hardcover first edition of readers asking Margaret Harwood questions of moral concern and her frank replies. Photgraph of author shows she could stand in for Margaret Thatcher easily. Topics include "Those Beauty Competitions,", "Sensible Shoes," "Mixed Marriages," "Sunday Cinemas and Liberty," "Spiritual Cannibalism," "The Cruelty of Parents" all of which she is down on and much more.
	The Koka Shastra Being the Ratirahasya of Kokkoka And Other Medieval Writings On Love translated by Alex Comfort, M.B., D. SC. A Brolga Book. Great Britain. 1968. Soft cover. Medieval Indian literature compared to the Kama Sutra. Notes on pronounciation. Starts with "The 5 Arrows," "the Posy of Love," to "the Wooing of the Bride," "Concerning Love Spells" and "Relations With Strange Women."
	The Karma Sutra of Vatsyayana Translated into English by Sir Richard Burton & F.F. Arbuthnot edited by John Muirhead-Goyld Panther Books. London. 1963 Translated from Sanscrit in 7 parts. Soft cover. Disappointing for those expecting to see explicit pictures of sexual positions though some are described at the back. Front chapters include the 64 arts- (including plumbing, tile laying and teeth-staining), and loads of other neat stuff about aquiring your wife or someone elses.
	Constructive Thinking A Guide To The Clear Art of Thinking by H. Ernest Hunt W. Foulsham & Co., Ltd. London. n.d. Foulshams' Cloth-Bound Pocket Library. Hardcover. Pocket sized. The secret is, apparently, simplicity. It takes 12 chapters and requires note-taking to get to that conclusion, although it is mentioned on page 16.
	Determinism or Free-Will? by Chapman Cohen The Pioneer Press. London. 1919 Hardcover. Book with it's pages not trimmed squarely at printing. Talks about "concsiousness" and "will" and "determination" a lot. Author leans on the side of determanism quite a bit. Tucked inside the front cover a List of Publications, March 1924.
	Formation of Character by Rev. J. B. S. Watson H. R. Allenson Limited. London. 1908 Hardcover. Second edition. Chapters of "Character" which is more important than success or failure and apparently partly inherited, "Courage" including examples of moral courage, "Temperance" which admonishes the slavery of debt, "Industry" and the glory of producing something useful, and "Reverance & Self Reverence" which looks at wrecked lives and the Royal Road.

 

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