Marriage.

  • Sensuality in marriage: question-and-answer session / Maxine Serett. (Episode 2 of 4)

    Maxine Serett, author of the book “The Housewife’s handbook on selective promiscuity” (under the pen name Rey Anthony), fields audience questions following a lecture on sexuality and marriage (in California, venue unknown) on January 14, 1965. The lecture centered on how monogamy in marriage doesn’t work and how to best approach being monogamous in marriage.…

  • Wife swapping / Albert Ellis (Episode 3 of 4, Part 2 of 2)

    Discussion of trading sexual partners. Also broadcast on WBAI February 16, 1965. Part 2 of 2. Note on label: FCC inquiry 8300 dated May 28, 1965 included this tape “your comments are requested in view of the fact that adultery is a crime in New York and California; (See American Broadcasting Co., Inc. et al…

  • Freedom of choice: a woman’s world – marriage revisited / Dr. Gail Fullerton

    Dr. Gail Putney Fullerton, author and Professor of Sociology at San Jose State College, delivered this talk to an audience at the University of California Medical Center in San Francisco on October 9, 1969. Fullerton says she was asked to speak on “marriage revisited”, including the economic and domestic functions of marriage from frontier time…

  • Sensuality in marriage: lecture / Maxine Serett. (Episode 1 of 4)

    Maxine Serett, author of the book “The Housewife’s handbook on selective promiscuity” (under the pen name Rey Anthony), delivers a lecture on sexuality and marriage (in California, venue unknown) on January 14, 1965. This recording features Serett’s talk, which centers on how monogamy in marriage doesn’t work and how to best approach being monogamous in…

  • Wife swapping / Albert Ellis (Episode 3 of 4)

    Albert Ellis gives a lecture at Le Metro Cafe on 2nd Avenue in the Lower East Side, NY on January 19, 1965, sponsored by The League for Sexual Freedom. Dr. Ellis outlines a number of different forms of “civilized adultery” or the trading sexual partners. There is a Q&A at the end. First broadcast on…

  • Men in marriage / Dr. Jean E. Neighbor.

    Psychiatrist Dr. Jean E. Neighbor (1915-1995) gives the third and last talk in a series of talks about marriage (see also BB0507) sponsored by the Mt. Diablo Unitarian Church, given on March 22, 1964. Note in box reads “‘In today’s matriarchal system in the Western world, men are often caught in a painful vise between…