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 Posted by BarbaraK on August 08, 1998 at 22:05:08:


To L and T index   Now considering that most people lived on farms up until  1920 (in the US) this question might be stupid or it might not. Mea Culpa!
   On a farm, things of a relativly sexual nature would be self-explainatory because of animals being needed on a farm, but in the city if a young man or woman didn't (ahemm . . .) sow their wild oats before marriage, how would they find these things out? It was a taboo topic between sexes of course and from the marriage handbooks I've read from the period, directions are relatively vauge. Does anyone think that parents and children might have had "the talk"? 
  People are people, no matter what century they live in and there certainly were perverts, but does anyone think that this lack of info might have led to more or less promiscuty than there is today? Or would it have been covered up more because of religious and social condemnation? Do you think that men or women would have had more relations?
    sorry it's long,
        BarbaraK





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