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What Victorians Wore. How to Undress a Victorian Lady in Your Next Historical Romance. Victorian Women Writers Project- Home. The Spectacular Female Body: Dress, Fashion and Modernity in Victorian Women's Magazines. Cathy's Wee Victorian Fashion Page. Victorian Era 1837-1901 Victorian Fashion History, Costume Social History. Victorian Theories of Sex and Sexuality. 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.

Sex and sexuality, then, were unavoidable issues for the Victorians. As Jill Conway reminds her readers, that since it wasn't until the early 1900's that scientists connected sex chromosomes to sex-linked characteristics or that they discovered the workings of hormones -- "we [begin] to see why for some forty years the exact nature of sex-differentiation and its psychic accompaniment was a subject of intense, though inconclusive debate. " Last modified 1996.