At fifteen, appearances were mending; she [Catherine Morland] began to curl her hair and long for balls. Jane Austen, Northhanger…
There was a “knowingness” about the way they walked that suggested the whole sex thing mightn’t be totally alien to…
These girls [local girls] were too sensible for sex. They wanted to play chasing and stuff. Courtship and sex were…
Sure, we all knew what them continentals were like about sex. They were all at it from an early age,…
I don’t think England should be represented abroad by an unmarried man... It might lead to complications. Oscar Wilde, A…
It is also, you will notice, foreign. We find it helpful to associate sexual products and practices with foreigners because—naturally—we…
Remember that for most of the last century this country’s iconic woman—our Madonna, as it were (in both the Catholic…
The reasons for non-consummation are the same as ever, she reports, in spite of our apparent enlightenment on sexual matters.…
Others say they’re both Christian and so didn't do it before they got married—and then cannot bear to do it…
In some bedrooms, it seems, the Victorian age lives on. There are still men like John Ruskin, who failed to…