{"product_id":"2940012350473","title":"Is It I? A Book for Every Man","description":"Written and published in 1868, by Horatio Robinson Storer, M.D. as a companion book to his prize winning essay of 1866, \"Why Not? A Book for Every Woman.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe Publisher has copy-edited this book to improve the formatting, style and accuracy of the text to make it readable. This did not involve changing the substance of the text.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eContents:\u003cbr\u003eIs it not Good to be Alone?----Marriage as a Sanitary Measure----How Early in Life is Marriage to be Advised?----The Rights of the Husband----Are these Rights Absolute, or Reciprocal, with Duties?----Should mere Instinct, or Reason, be the Rule?----Arguments and Counter-Arguments as to Divorce----A Plea for Woman.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eExcerpts:\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"....the present essay is written, and is intended for, the perusal of men. It is not impossible, however, that copies of it may fall into the hands of, or be shown to, individuals of the other sex. The subject upon which I shall speak, itself a very delicate one, is thus rendered still more difficult to treat. Inasmuch, however, as in my work upon physical evils of forced abortions, I published for the edification of women, (Why Not? A Book for Women), under the authority and with the sanction of the American Medical Association, I seem to have so far succeeded in the duty entrusted to me as to win the encomiums of many of the sterner sex, I make bold to strike out for myself a similar path, let me hope, to the conviction and betterment of all my readers. If in doing this, I am roughly to hew down certain old branches of custom, and to root up summarily certain privileges and alleged rights, usurped rather than legitimately granted, it is that I may let in light where it has long been needed, that I may remove causes of offense from the road of life's pilgrims, and widen that way, now too generally trodden in single file, even where wedlock exists, to its intended dimensions sufficient for two to pass, side by side and hand in hand; and this work, for humanity's sake, I shall endeavor to do without fear or favor.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"....To all men I speak ----- the young, middle aged, and the old; to the rich and to the poor; to the gentle and the unrefined; to the single, the married, and the widower; to the happy and to the miserable; to the ardent and to the cold; to the religious and to the blasphemer. The subject is one that concerns all, for it lies at the foundation of Society, ----- sexual health and disease, the need or advantage of marriage, the need or advantage of divorce, the chance of home being such an empty name, an earthly heaven, or a worse than purgatory, ----- these topics that affect each man, however careless or unconcerned he may think himself, or may appear to be. Therefore is it that I am sure of the attention of the continent, that he may gain still greater reason for self-control; of the prurient, for the very title of my essay will serve to arrest his attention; and of the brutish man, impelled by curiosity to learn upon what grounds I shall condemn him.","brand":"Digital Text Publishing Company","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47078671778032,"sku":"2940012350473","price":2.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940012350473_p0.jpg?v=1763567530","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940012350473","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}