When Passion Reigned: Sex and Victorians
Drawing upon sources from the Victorian era, this work debunks the myth that the Victorians did not like sex. Avoiding the "great literature" of the day, and instead relying on the songs, advertisements and pulp fiction serialized in magazines for adults, it provides an eye-opening look at what...
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Drawing upon sources from the Victorian era, this work debunks the myth that the Victorians did not like sex. Avoiding the "great literature" of the day, and instead relying on the songs, advertisements and pulp fiction serialized in magazines for adults, it provides an eye-opening look at what the masses thought, and how they acted when it came to sex and love. It shows that eroticism was rife - it was at the heart of fashion and underclothing, the driving force in courtship rituals and even the central attraction of the ever-present parlour piano.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780465089925 (0465089925)
Publish date: August 1st 1996
Publisher: Basic Books (AZ)
Pages no: 224
Edition language: English
It was an interesting book. Anderson's premise seems to be that the Victorians were not as repressed as they're portrayed (which at this point I think is common knowledge but maybe it wasn't in 1996) but also that passion was a part of sex, which is something we've lost (although she doesn't elabora...
A mediocre examination of attitudes toward sex during the Victorian era. The author is confused about her own thesis
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