(Offprint): Introduction to The Housewife's Handbook on Selective Promiscuity

Single leaf folded to make six pages. Ownership signature of noted American psychologist Henry Guze, co-founder along with Dr. Albert Ellis, of the Society for the Scientific Study of Sex, else fine. Prints the full text of the introduction by Ellis in order to promote the seventh printing of Rey Anthony's book *The Housewife's Handbook on Selective Promiscuity.* Includes an order form and publisher's reply envelope. The book was a pseudonymously written frank account of the author's discovery of her own sexuality and the ways that she accommodated it. This title caused a sensation and it was later reviewed by the Supreme Court as part of their investigation into the publishing activities of Ralph Ginzburg (who later acquired the copyright to this work in 1966) which resulted in his eventually serving six months in prison. In the introduction to a 2001 interview with Ellis in *Psychology Today*, Robert Epstein writes, "Given these techniques [REBT] have now become mainstream, it's safe to say that no individual-not even Freud himself-has had a greater impact on modern psychotherapy." *OCLC* locates no copies.…