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Robert B. Armitage

A little-known early 20th-century medical writer, this author published candid guides on marriage, sex education, health, and self-improvement at a time when those subjects were often kept quiet. His books now survive mainly through library archives and reprints, giving modern readers a window into the advice literature of that era.

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Private Sex Advice to Women: For Young Wives and those who Expect to be Married

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 medical doctor and writer active in the 1910s. Surviving catalog and library records connect him with books such as Private Sex Advice to Women (1913), Sex Secrets (1918), How to Stay Young (Perpetual Youth), and The Law of Breathing and Chest Development.

His work focused on subjects that mixed practical health instruction with marriage guidance, sex education, and personal well-being. Much of it was published by Advance Thought Publishing Company in Chicago, and today his name is better known through digitized editions and library listings than through detailed biographical records.

Very little reliable personal information appears to be readily documented about his life, which gives his books an even stronger historical interest: they reflect the language, concerns, and popular educational style of their time more than a well-recorded public career.