“Back home, the faithless wife was becoming an issue. A large number of service wives had gone to work, including hundreds of thousands who had not worked before. They had money, they were in contact with men, and they felt the sexual excitement that wars induce. Good wives would indulge in a sort of sentimental hysteria over their far-away husbands, then go out to a bar for a pick-up [you can read about that here].”
Adultery proved to be a problem on the home front, click here to read about it…
-from Amazon:
You Might Also Care to Know About The Sex Manners of the Twenties — or, perhaps men & women during the Great Depression
In 1943 a woman on the home front introduced a sexual component that she believed would bring an end to the problem of industrial absenteeism – click here to read about her idea…
