Don’t believe the hype! Victorian ladies liked a hot piece of ass just as much as we modern folk do! And now there’s evidence of it — fifty years before Kinsey did his sexuality studies, unassuming Stanford professor Clelia Mosher unearthed intimate details about how the women of the time viewed sex and its place in their lives:
Slightly more than half of these educated women claimed to have known nothing of sex prior to marriage; the better informed said they’d gotten their information from books, talks with older women and natural observations like “watching farm animals.” Yet no matter how sheltered they’d initially been, these women had—and enjoyed—sex. Of the 45 women, 35 said they desired sex; 34 said they had experienced orgasms; 24 felt that pleasure for both sexes was a reason for intercourse; and about three-quarters of them engaged in it at least once a week.
Part biography, part sexuality discussion, the full article is totally worth reading.
