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Sex, Courtship and Marriage
London, Hutchinson, 1954.
First edition, first impression. 8vo. Original cloth. Dust-jacket.
A seemingly uncommon work, placeable within a recognisable genre of British popular psychology publishing that flourished in the early 1950s in the wake of the Kinsey Reports and the broader post-war liberalisation of discussion about sex and personal relationships. Hutchinson were themselves active in this area, also publishing Eustace Chesser’s The Sexual, Marital and Family Relationships of the English Woman in 1956.
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