author
Robert B. Armitage
Known for early 20th-century advice and self-help books, this writer published works on marriage, sex education, health, and physical well-being. His books reflect the attitudes and popular health thinking of their time, which makes them especially interesting as historical documents today.
1 Audiobook
Private Sex Advice to Women: For Young Wives and those who Expect to be Married
by Robert B. Armitage
About the author
Robert B. Armitage was a prolific author whose books appeared in the 1910s through at least the early 1930s. Catalog and book records from Google Books and HathiTrust connect his name with titles such as Private Sex Advice to Women (1913), Sex Secrets (1918), How to Stay Young (1918), and Sex Force (1932).
His writing centered on personal health, marriage, sex instruction, and self-improvement. These books were aimed at general readers and promised practical guidance on topics that many publishers of the period treated as private, sensitive, or even taboo.
Very little biographical information about his life was readily confirmed from reliable sources during this search, so the surviving picture is mostly of Armitage through his publications rather than through personal details. That gives his work a certain historical curiosity: readers meet him chiefly as a voice from an earlier era of popular advice writing.