Sexuality in America

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Anyway, I've had Foucault drilled into my brain, repeatedly and totally, throughout grad school.

You have my deepest sympathies.

[Filuwaúrdjan]

Puritan-influenced cultural repression of sexuality

That, at least, is patently false.

[Filuwaúrdjan]

Restrained maybe, but not repressed. Within the bounds of marriage and religious devotion, the Puritans loved them some sex.

To the extent that some censorship was required for the benefit of readers in the 19th century when letters and so on from that period started getting published. Dirty stuff. Hey, English language culture in the 17th century: enough to unleash anyones inner Mary Whitehouse.