Bundling Its Origin, Progress and Decline in America - Softcover

Stiles, Henry Reed

9784871872317: Bundling Its Origin, Progress and Decline in America

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ISBN 10: 4871872319 ISBN 13: 9784871872317

Publisher: Ishi Press, 2014

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Bundling is a practice that first originated in Europe in which a courting couple would sleep in bed together and could huddle or even kiss but they usually remained fully clothed or slept in separate sleeping bags so that sexual intercourse was not possible. Traditionally, participants were adolescents, with a boy staying at the residence of the girl. They were given separate blankets by the girl's parents and expected to talk to one another through the night. The practice was limited to the winter and sometimes the use of a bundling board, placed between the boy and girl, discouraged sexual conduct. Many sources claim it exists and is still practiced among the Amish People, also known as the Pennsylvania Dutch, especially in the area of Lancaster Pennsylvania. The Amish people are highly secretive. Their population is growing rapidly. The average Amish Family has seven children. Today, there are 230,000 Amish people, half of whom are under the age of 18. This is double the number from 25 years ago.

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About the Author

Henry Reed Stiles was born on March 10, 1832. He was a physician who wrote a number of highly regarded historical records and genealogical books during the late 18th and early 19th century. As a doctor, he served in various medical positions primarily in New York City. He was interested in genealogical and historical research. In 1867 he issued the first volume of his History of the City of Brooklyn, N. Y., in 1869 the second, and in 1870 the third. He wrote a short biography, the Life of Abraham Lincoln (1865); 22 of the 56 biographies in The Men of Our Day (1868), one or two campaign biographies of General Ulysses S. Grant and portions of many other subscription books. He contributed articles to newspapers and magazines and brief biographies of publishers in the Round Table for 1866-7; papers in the Historical Magazine, of which he was editor; letters and historical sketches in the Rahway Times, New Jersey. In 1884 he edited and largely contributed to the Illustrated History of the County of Kings and the City of Brooklyn, in two volumes, and in 1887 completed editing The Humphreys Family and Genealogy. He helped to organize the American Anthropological Society in 1869, and was one of the seven founders of the New York Genealogical and Biographical Society, serving as its president from 1869 until 1873. After his full retirement in 1901, he devoted all his time to completing and preparing for publication of The History of Ancient Wethersfield, Connecticut. Stiles was described upon his death as having "made it possible for thousands to trace their ancestry to the founders of our American Government and to honored names in the older governments of the world." Stiles died on January 7, 1909.

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