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6 Reddit comments about Fascinating Womanhood: How the ideal women awakens a Man's Deepest Love and tenderness:

u/PorgiAmor · 12 pointsr/TheBluePill

Oh yeah, I've heard of this before. Pretty sure it comes from the retro book "Fascinating Womanhood".

Notably, it has some other advice about relating to your husband that would make RPWs/TRPs rage, though:

> "like a child who wants too many cookies, a man must be denied [sex] sometimes for his own good."

u/kharlos · 7 pointsr/WTF

I was going to post this as well. This does NOT even represent what most people were taught in schools etc. The book Fascinating Womanhood was a similar book that was really popular in the US as a guidebook for conservative women, but it in no way represented what schools were teaching. As someone who collects old sex-ed videos and quirky cultural books from the 20s->90s, I would highly recommend Fascinating Womanhood for a good laugh.

u/SweetPinkCuntCake · 3 pointsr/RedPillWomen

I've found Fascinating Womanhood to be very helpful. I've been reading it casually over the past few weeks, and so far I've seen a lot of improvements in my relationship. It's definitely worth checking out.

u/JanuaryArya · 1 pointr/RedPillWomen

We read this versionFascinating Womanhood

It was the final chapter and it extensively carried on about virginity. I wouldn’t mind having a copy of the original version. I’ll have to look into finding one.

u/nat_king_cold · 1 pointr/AskReddit

I have two answers, one general to place the question in a broader historical context, and one specific to address your options.

In general, modern America men have no incentive to commit.

In previous generations, men had three compelling reasons to commit: social pressure, sexual access, and raising their children.

Social pressure to marry is, in many sectors of America, non-existent. Only in strongly religious communities is there any risk of shame or ostracism if you're not married.

Sexual access for men is different from in past generations. Women used to recognize that access to their vagina was a key element in getting a man to commit. In the WWII era, for example, somewhere near 20% of men had their first sexual encounter with a prostitute. Why? Because most American women (or at least a substantial percentage of American women) were virgins at marriage. A guy might get laid with a whore or a fast girl, but he wants to marry a virgin --- it's basic evolutionary psychology to increase the odds of her children being his. Easy access to pre-marital sex lowers men's incentive to commit to any one woman. And lots of women have no problem cutting him off as punishment -- but if he doesn't get regular sex from you, he'll look for it somewhere else (this includes porn, IMHO: I hate it when women lure a man with lots of sex in the early relationship, then change the rules by cutting him off, and boo-hoo when he looks at porn.)

Raising of children is also different today than in previous generations. Due to the social stigma against divorce, men had a very high probability of being a strong influence in their children's lives even when the relationship with mommy was troubled. Now, 50% of marriages end in divorce and women file for 70% of divorces. According to some surveys, between 40% and 70% of divorced mothers with children interfere with the visitation rights of the kids' father. (Google The article, "American Fathers Get A Bad Rap") Men who want kids (which is most men) are now often highly reluctant to become fathers for fear of losing access.

Specifically, what can you do?

Despite all that I wrote above, I don't want to imply that you're doomed. Rather, I want you to see the bigger picture. I want you to consider it from a man's point of view: men want to commit, we want to settle down and have kids. But it often feels like the deck is stacked against us. However, there are some ways to appeal to men and make him more likely to want to commit.

I suggest that you read three books and apply the lessons contained therein. These books contain info that used to be accepted as time-tested common sense methods of making a man happy and making him run home to you. But these old methods have been lost to many American women, contributing to their own misery and failures with men. Women today don't know how easy it is to work a man (in the best possible sense). These books will make him putty in your hands, and make his friends amazed at how cool you are:

http://www.amazon.com/Fascinating-Womanhood-Helen-Andelin/dp/055329220X

http://www.amazon.com/Proper-Care-Feeding-Husbands/dp/0060520612

http://www.amazon.com/Think-Like-Guy-How-Thinking/dp/0312354371

u/malodorous_pervert · 1 pointr/AskReddit

>Advice from males is what I really want here.

My general relationship advice is that you read at least one of these three books, and apply the concepts you read.

http://www.amazon.com/Think-Like-Guy-How-Thinking/dp/0312354371

http://www.amazon.com/Fascinating-Womanhood-Helen-Andelin/dp/055329220X

http://www.amazon.com/Proper-Care-Feeding-Husbands/dp/0060520612

These books are essentially a reminder of the advice that women used to know as common sense. Feminism did a lot of good for women, but one problem was that it kinda scrambled a lot of relationships with unrealistic and harmful ideas.

For example, one of the harmful ideas that you've internalized is the concept that your feelings are a good way to evaluate a partner. Not true, as you discovered: this guy was flirting with you while he was dating another girl. Rationally, you should have identified that this guy was, if not two-timing, disrespecting his current GF and relationship. But you were flattered by the attention. You made a decision based on your feelings, rather than with your intellect. The guy (or girl) who makes you excited and giddy is rarely the best long-term partner.

IMHO, the reason that women are diagnosed with depression about 2x more often than men is because over the last few generations women conditioned to follow their feelings. But that's a road to disaster, because our feelings are irrational and ever-changing. For thousands of years, people all over the world in different cultures and religions learned that the path to happiness comes not from following feelings but mastering them. Those three books I linked to contain some simple tips on how to re-learn the common sense that helped keep our grandparents and their grandparents married for decades.