Dating Guide from 1938 (13 photos)

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Hilarious!

Ah those were the days. Wish I coulda lived back then. I agree with all of them except #11

Good advice, all of it. Except the bra, feel free to go without.

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This would be hilarious if it wasn’t so pathetic.

how did women get pregnant in those days ?

That book was def written by a man.

For when a man dances, he wants to dance.
I lol’d

Of course it was written by a man, it’s an instructional article, not a delicious turkey dinner.

By nuns, for nuns.

it makes it seem like men are selfish assholes.

#11 tells me it was written by a woman. no man would ever say that! since the dawn of time we’ve been using alcohol to get busy! its why we have survived as a species. did the dodo’s have alcohol? no and look where it got them!

i, (a female), actually agree with SOME of the advice, but for some of that advice with which i agree, i agree with for reasons other than, “because HE doesn’t like it”. some of this advice is not unsound. for example, the “don’t-discuss-clothing-thing-but-”please-and-flatter-him” ” bit- i agree it’s nice to listen to what another person has to say because you sincerely want to know about your date, or at the very least, to keep the conversation flowing. also, only discussing one’s interest in clothing – “material” things – does indicate a shallow person. any way, i agree with some of the advice, disagree with some and half-agree with the rest, but for slightly different reasons than, “he don’t like it”. it’s really a matter of consideration and courtesy of your date’s feelings… that’s really all it is. and the same advice might go for men – don’t discuss only YOUR interests, and DON’T get sloppy drunk….this advice goes BOTH ways.

Still good advice, especially regarding behavior and conversation. They guy should steer the conversation towards you and vice versa. Certainly don’t flirt with another man, play with your man’s ears, talk about other dates. It just shows that people have always wanted to be treated with respect and that rude behavior is always out of place. The same logic used in 1938 should be used today in dating and public behavior.

Some of those modern liberal holes out there ought to try to follow this, instead of acting like slobs.

Ha, I agreed with most of it – it’s just being polite. The woman they are writing this for seems a bit of a mess, getting drunk on the date, talking about the other guys she has fun with, then passing out

The woman in the photos looks to be actress Shelly Winters!

She looks like she was having a good time, he looks like an uptight boring jerk.

I certainly dont want society to go back to a time when it was ok to beat a woman behind closed doors, routinely cheat on your wife, while you violently enforce fidelity on her, or have to use some rosetta stone-type keymastering device to get her undergarnments off, so you both could enjoy a little carnal plaeasure. But all in all, theres at least ONE of the dated, comedically-intended axioms listed here, that might STILL ring a little note of truth, even in our modern world>

There are few things that make a female look WORSE, than when she agrees to go out with a man on a date, and proceeds to spend half her time dividing her attention between him, another woman she bonds with at the bar, or even worse, another man, bartender, musician in the house band, whatever the case may be. We understand youre a social animal. But how bout controlling your “animal” instincts once in a while? You fully expect men to do the same with theirs so, turnabout can only be fairplay here.

Many women THINK theyre just expressing independence, and “showing” the man, how attractive and charming and alluring they are to other men, women, people in general, to enforce control and a pattern of respected obedience, in the man like a common canine.

But what they DONT understand, is that in reality, most guys may already thinking that the girl in question, is at best, suffering from a mentally-dibilitating short attention span, or at worst, has the potential to be nothing more than an attention-seeking, trifling flirt, who will bring them nothing more than infidelity, misery, and disappearing cash, from their bank account.

I know men can and DO, things that are equally bad, if not worse. But for the purposes of THIS discussion, maybe it wouldnt be the “worst” thing, if women simply attended just this one little session of charm school, just for the day.

Being the same, “flirt with every person in the place”-boor that you despise in men, hardly makes you anymore of a lady, by imitation.

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I like a classy dame, but not a prude.

This made me mad. The sad thing is, not much has changed.

I think this was pretty funny for sure.