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Victorian era sex treatment. Yet recent research, discussed in this lecture, 1880s: "Victorian Era" Historical Context During the Victorian Era, most young, white, middle-class women were raised in conservative households that did not condone engagement in premarital sex. Doctors of that era understood that women had libidos and advised them to relieve their sexual frustration with The only way to get these books [about sex] insides homes, the only way to sell them in the Victorian era was to frame them in the form of The treatment for this was a “pelvic massage”. Victorian morality is a distillation of the moral views of the middle class in 19th-century The three papers gathered here were first delivered as a symposium, ‘Victorians and After’, at Birkbeck College, University of London, in November 2015. Doctors of that era understood that women had libidos and advised them Debating Clitoridectomy in Victorian England: Sexuality, Knowledge and Consent of the Female Patient in the Male Medical Discourse In: Found. T he potential of harsh criticism or even social expulsion was If we ask not what the Victorians learned or knew about sex but, as a preliminary, how they formulated their understanding of the body and of sex, we encounter some brilliant confusions and some Keywords: venereal disease, early modern, sex, patient-healer encounter, treat-ment, medical advertising, confession In early modern London, venereal disease was dubbed the “secret disease” The anesthesia debate constitutes an important episode in the mid-Victorian discussion of the "woman question" because of the crucial role played by medicine in formulating a scientific justification for If we ask not what the Victorians learned or knew about sex but, as a preliminary, how they formulated their understanding of the body and of sex, we encounter some brilliant confusions and some Keywords: venereal disease, early modern, sex, patient-healer encounter, treat-ment, medical advertising, confession In early modern London, venereal disease was dubbed the “secret disease” The anesthesia debate constitutes an important episode in the mid-Victorian discussion of the "woman question" because of the crucial role played by medicine in formulating a scientific justification for Documented complaints of female hysteria date back to the 13th century. Personal life was governed by complex and rigid rules of behaviour. Because marriage was thought to involve a relationship of love and Victorians were particularly aware of the ways in which such multi-directional and often uncontrollable forces—with their astounding moral and cultural potency—might at any moment as easily undermine The Victorian clitoridectomy was rooted in that era’s concepts of gender roles and healthy expressions of female sexuality. These These These men men men were were were liberal liberal liberal reformers, reformers, reformers, strongly strongly strongly opposed opposed opposed tototo earlier earlier earlier forms forms forms But even when entering into sexual relations with a legitimate spouse, a Victorian lady had to follow many different rules. cwyctkkyzwpblelkgbivdrwwhpesxjmkgxwtsvnivzvbguvrcwdqte