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Unveiling the Taboos: The Evolving Perception of Sexuality in the 19th Century. The 19th century was a period of significant transformation in society’s perception of sexuality. During this time, long-standing taboos surrounding sexual expression and behavior began to be challenged and questioned.
Feb 6, 2017 · What was it like to live before and during the invention of modern sexuality? Wresting the Victorians from the prison of dour, prudish stereotypes to which their children and grandchildren...
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Victorian attempts to quash sexual urges were in some ways simply practical. Syphilis was seemingly everywhere in the mid 1800s – not only was it disfiguring, it could affect your mental health...
Only the nineteenth century has achieved the distinction of being a ‘sexual epoch’. The Victorian era has found a central place in popular culture as a period of excessive sexual austerity, repression and prudery.
Jun 2, 2014 · This chapter provides an overview of changes and cultural shifts around questions of gender and sexuality in the Victorian period. Against a backdrop of change and dissonance, the Victorians saw considerable upheaval across normative codes of social, sexual, and gendered behaviour.
This chapter examines broad patterns in sexual behaviour in 19th-century England and Wales. It deals with the most widespread shifts and stabilities in heterosexual marital and extra-marital sexual relations and their procreative outcome.
Prior to the Victorians, there is no record of the term “sexuality” being used to refer to an awareness of having such sensual desires, and it was not until the twentieth century that the notion of sexual identity became a familiar concept in western society.
