The Making of Victorian Sexuality

What did the Victorians think about sex? What was the reality of their sexual behaviour? What wider concepts - biological, political, religious - influenced their sexual moralism? The Making of Victorian Sexuality draws on a wealth of evidence to overturn the orthodox modern picture of prudery and puritanism, and to present a Victorian sexual code which was intelligently embraced by wealthy and poor alike as part of a humane and progressive vision of society's future.