Smythers, the wife of a Reverend, wrote in 1894: 'While sex is at best revolting and at worse rather painful, it has to be endured...Most men are by nature rather perverted, and if given half a chance, would engage in quite a variety of the most revolting practices'.
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In 1894, Methodist wife Ruth Smythers wrote a treatise for young brides and included essential advice such as appropriate night-wear for the wedded couple and how to discourage your spouse's amorous advances. The book is a side-splitting eye-opener into to how our love lives have changed in just over a century.