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Les secrets de la génération ou l’art de procréer à volonté des filles ou des garçons, de faire des enfants d’esprit, de les orner du don de la beauté; de les avoir sains et robustes: précédé de la description des parties naturelles de l’homme et de la femme … suivi de l’art d’être mère sans le concours des hommes … Tome premier [– second]. [S.l.],

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Joseph Morel de Rubempré’s (1812–86) popular guide to the secrets of sex, (billed as the thirtieth edition of vol. I and the twelfth of vol. II).

Morel de Rubempré was a ‘physician, romancier, pornographer, popular commentator … [who] holds an important place in the history of Western sexology because he antedates the German sexologists by at least a generation’ (Warton and Tagoe eds, National healths (2004), p. 146). Les secrets de la génération covers male and female genitalia, virginity, breasts, successful procreation (touching on eugenics), the maintenance of sexual activity into old age, sexual pleasure, and conception without a man.

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