{"product_id":"tvj-033707","title":"Once a Week Is Ample: The Moderately Sensual Victorian’s Guide to Restraint of the Passions by Gerard Macdonald (1982)","description":"\u003ch2\u003eVictorian advice reveals an unexpectedly comic view of intimacy\u003c\/h2\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eVintage Good Condition\u003c\/strong\u003e - Rubbed and soiled covering with edge\/corner wear, toned page edges and light spotting. Reprinted 1982.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eGerard Macdonald compiles quotations from Victorian sources of advice about relations between men and women, presenting their solemn warnings and prescriptions with a distinctly humorous effect. The extracts reveal the assumptions, anxieties and elaborate restraint that surrounded a subject the writers approached with great concern for delicacy and propriety. Read together, their confident pronouncements offer both entertainment and a revealing glimpse of attitudes from another era. The book's presentation lets the original advisers supply much of the comedy themselves, without requiring their claims to be taken as guidance. Once a Week Is Ample is a collection for readers interested in social history, curious old advice and the gap between earnest intention and unintended amusement.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"The Value Junction ","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":67647265374420,"sku":"TVJ-033707","price":6.9,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0721\/3059\/2980\/files\/TVJ-033707-1.jpg?v=1791323600","url":"https:\/\/thevaluejunction.co.nz\/products\/tvj-033707","provider":"The Value Junction ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}