Primers for Prudery
Subtitle: Sexual Advice to Victorian America
Edition: updated edition edition
Publisher: The Johns Hopkins University Press
Published: May 19, 2000
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 208
ISBN-13: 9780801863486
Subjects: Gender Studies; History of ideas, intellectual history; Sexual behaviour; Social history; c 1800 to c 1900; Modern - 19th Century; United States - General; Family; Sex Roles (Sociological Aspects); Social Science; History - General History; History: American; USA; Human Sexuality; History / United States / General; United States; History; Sociology - Marriage & Family; Sex customs; Sex instruction
First sentence: Publicly given advice on sex and matrimony undoubtedly predates the Ten Commandments, and so do the problems which make this advice necessary.