Regeneration of Sex Fluids: The Real "Fountain of Youth"
New York: Fallstaff Press Inc., 1931. First edition. 11x8.5" sheets, reproduced from typescript, mimeo'd rectos only, [8]pp. Folded and stapled along top edge in blue paper backing. Pages and cover toned and with light foxing. Laid in is a [4]pp prospectus, and promotional material from the publisher.
A very strange and seemingly unrecorded publication from the Fallstaff Press. The house was founded by Ben and Anne Rebuhn as a "private" publisher of erotica and anthropologica, with most of its output coming in the late 20's-30s. This booklet was sent free as a promotional to charter subscribers, along with a copy of Dr. Iwan Bloch's The Sex Life of our Time, with a mere $2.98 due upon delivery. Bloch treats the subject in his book, as stated on the bottom of the last sheet, but it is likely this pamphlet the promotional ramblings and pulling together of various sources and quotes by the Rebhuhn's. We provide a few quotes from the prospectus:
"Not only is the proper use of the sexual organs the basis of health, of lasting youth, of virility and high mentality, but many authorities are coming to believe that sex power and mental power are so intimately related as to be almost one..."
"Nine million people were burned at the stake or executed in other horrible ways as witches and wizards in olden days... perhaps [they] spent lives of easily avoidable misery because of ignorance of the simplest rules of sex. In no other field has man been so backward."
Price: $150.00