#goals from the 1960s Prayer Book for Girls

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  1. “Do seek advice on Sex matters from only your mother or her representatives”

    Waaaake

    “Here Mam, he told me he loves me but wont buy me a bag of chips, shud I stick with him??” – Me

    “Absolute Mort for you hun he’s only makin a fool of u” – Mammy

  2. “Strive to be Mary-like and you will always be Lady-like” !! Had a secondary school teacher who loved that phrase (not even a religion teacher, would just put it out there randomly in the middle of her geography lesson). Now I know where she got it from. Less than 10 years since I left school!

  3. If those were new year resolutions, I’ve broken them all in record time….

    Dress like our lady? Cover up those ankles peeps…you will catch your glares of disapproval..

  4. To be fair my Mum was told during sex ed, back in the 60’s/70’s (i don’t know when she exactly went to secondary school)

    Never sit on a mans lap without a news paper in between, never sit on a toilet after a man, never live in a home with non- relative men (I think it referred to boarding houses or house shares)

    My Favorite, never consider kissing a man without thoughts of marriage as it leads to pregnancy.

    Never told about the cycle , never told about products . just don’t do x and y.

    And when they married (80’s) they had to bring their marriage license to the dr ( well outside the town, encase they saw someone they knew) in order to be allowed contraception/condoms. She always told me how that dr talked to her she wanted to “slap his degrading face off of him”. He mainly talked to dad the whole time and barely talked to my mum.

    Madness , thankfully time have changed.

  5. I only recently discovered that women used to have to go for a “cleansing ritual” following child birth…..

  6. 14 & 15, so get knocked up, ride a donkey, accept gifts from random strangers, and make someone else be baby daddy besides baby’s daddy yeah?

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