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Sex manual original 1930 edition, and was republished in new editions in 1965 and 2000. David Reuben, M. D.'s book "Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex* (*But Were Afraid to Ask)", published in 1969, was one of the first sex manuals that entered mainstream culture in the 1960s. Although it did not feature explicit images of sex acts, its descriptions of sex acts were detailed, addressing common questions and misunderstandings Reuben had heard from his own patients. Most notably, Reuben dismissed popular medical-psychiatric notions of "vaginal" vs. "clitoral" orgasm, explaining exactly how female physiology works. "The Joy of Sex" by