New York 1906

Recently I purchased a copy of The Etiquette of New York To-day which, originally written in 1906, discusses the proper manners of New York society of the day. Fr. Michael flipped through it and then tossed it back on the coffee table with a scoff. "That's so stuffy and unrealistic. I mean can you imagine sex conversations back then? 'It did give me much pleasure when he thrust his manhood deep within me.' Puh-lease!" Little did he know that sex conversations were not commonplace in New York at the turn of the last century.