Against sex : identities of sexual restraint in early America /
French, Kara M.,author.
"How much sex should a person have? With whom? What do we make of people who choose not to have sex at all? As present as these questions are today, they were subjects of intense debate in the early American republic. In this richly textured history, Kara French investigates ideas about, and practices of, sexual restraint to better understand the sexual dimensions of American identity in the antebellum United States"--
Includes bibliographical references (pages 183-201) and index.
"How much sex should a person have? With whom? What do we make of people who choose not to have sex at all? As present as these questions are today, they were subjects of intense debate in the early American republic. In this richly textured history, Kara French investigates ideas about, and practices of, sexual restraint to better understand the sexual dimensions of American identity in the antebellum United States"--
Shakers
Catholic Church
Catholic Church.
Shakers.
Sex customs
Sexual ethics
Sexual abstinence
Grahamites.
Grahamites.
Sex customs.
Sexual abstinence
Sexual ethics.