![]() The text, which has circulated and spread over websites and blogs and has been translated into other languages, is sometimes sourced to a 1998 course on human sexuality in the University of Washington. ![]() It has been published in book form as Sex Tips for Husbands and Wives from 1894. The text, purportedly published by Spiritual Guidance Press, New York City and reprinted by The Madison Institute Newsletter, Fall Issue, in 1894, has become a well-known humorous pamphlet. Although there is ample evidence that the text is a joke or hoax - Ruth Smythers, her husband and the institutions mentioned in the pamphlet did not exist (names 'Ruth' and 'Smithers' (sic) appear alongside, albeit separately in a once popular work of fiction by John Galsworthy, a 1910 play Justice ), and some of the language and reference points were not used until the 20th century - it has fooled some people and even a newspaper into believing it is a serious text, partly because some back covers of the book imply that it is genuine. Instruction and Advice for the Young Bride purports to be a booklet written by Ruth Smythers in 1894 that states that women find sex displeasurable and discusses methods which a newly married woman may use to discourage her husband from sex.
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