I've got some bad news for you about views on sex during the Victorian era, buddy...
The solution to the epidemic of sexual misconduct is to return to victorian prudishness
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There was no sex in the Victorian era
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They invented vibrators...
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For purely medical purposes
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They were no prudes, it was just the clothes. This & the belief that the Romans were sexual hedonists are common misconceptions...
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Now in all seriousness, Victorian sexuality existed. But it is ridiculous to say that their prudery was "just the clothes." Their sexuality was often discussed under some pretense (medical or legal) - but pretense is prudery. One look at the obfuscating way sex is discussed in
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Victorian novels is enough to show you that. Obviously the Victorians were sexual, but to say that they were hypersexual, or secret perverts, or anything like that is revisionism with a political purpose. The plain fact is sexuality was very different for them than it is now
End of conversation
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yes, certainly
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