Sex In Victorian TImes

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It is against this cultural and political horizon that an understanding of modern sexuality needs to be contextualised. The Victorian era of the nineteenth century, like no other period preceding it, became dominated by the belief that an individual's sex and sexuality form the most basic core of their identity, potentiality, social/political standing and freedom. It is a curious irony that we moderns commonly portray Victorian sexual mores as puritanistic, moralistic and highly repressive, when like never before, sexuality became a focus of public and private attention.

Sexuality & Modernity: Victorian Sexuality

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Sexuality In The Victorian Era

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Victorian Era Prostitution

We are well-accustomed to the ideas of the prudish, sexually-repressed Victorians, who cautiously guarded themselves against any temptation, no matter how slight. Critics and reader have largely and successfully questioned this conception and proven it inaccurate. For during this period, even in seeking any man or woman's ultimate goal in achieving the apparently conservative happy ending of marriage, Victorians were inevitably led to the consummation of their love and the creation one's own home and family.

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Victorian Theories of Sex and Sexuality

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The Victorian Era Sex Scholar: Secret Results « Sigmund, Carl an

In 1973, historian Carl Degler was combing the University archives, gathering research for a book on the history of the family. Sifting through the papers of Dr.

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Female hysteria « the Victorian era

Debut of the first vibrator in 1869. Developed by an American physician, George Taylor, M.D., it was a large, cumbersome, steam-powered apparatus. Taylor recommended it for treatment of an illness known at the time as "female hysteria."

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Editor's note : This story contains references to sex and sexual devices of the Victorian Era.

Dr. Swift's Cure for Hysteria

Hysteria as a disease has played a pivotal role in the social understanding and treatment of women and dates as far back as 1900 BC.

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Female Hysteria

This was once a common medical diagnosis for women.

It is against this cultural and political horizon that an understanding of modern sexuality needs to be contextualised.