ISBN: Ostalo
Godina izdanja: 1962
Jezik: Engleski
Autor: Strani

Random House NEW YORK 1961.

Ideal Marriage: Its Physiology and Technique is a famous popular scientific treatise and self-help book published in London in 1926 by Dutch gynecologist Theodoor Hendrik van de Velde, retired director of the Gynecological Clinic in Haarlem, and `one of the major writers on human sexuality during the early twentieth century` (Frayser & Whitby, p. 300). It was the best-known work on its subject for several decades, and was reprinted 46 times in the original edition. After World-War Two, it sold over a half-million copies. A revised edition was published in 1965. and a subsequent one in 2000 (Melody & Pearson, p. 96).

It proclaimed the `critical goal of marriage consists of sexual pleasure shared by husband and wife` (Melody and Person, p. 93). A 2000 edition of the book described itself as concentrating `on the cultivation of the technique of eroticism as an art in marriage.`

Frederica Mathewes-Green, in the National Review, described it as

the best-selling sex manual of all time. Over half a million copies were sold in the United States alone, and it enjoyed equal success in Europe. ...This is not a prude`s book. Young couples who grab a used copy off the Internet may have even as much fun with it as their great-grandparents did.[1]

The first printing had an insert: `The sale of this book is strictly limited to members of the medical profession, Psychoanalysts, Scholars, and to such adults as may have a definite position in the field of Physiological, Psychological, or Social Research.` It was placed on the Index Librorum Prohibitorum in 1931.