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RainDog

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6. The dance halls were constantly threatened with closure

Reply to redqueen (Reply #3)

Fri Jul 20, 2012, 12:43 PM

Jul 2012

and were, eventually closed. You're talking about the underworld of Victorian Britain, not the larger society - the two aren't the same.

Printers were regularly arrested for indecency for printing images and stories that would be considered blase in our time.

Sexuality was definitely a locus of control for females in Victorian Britain.

You're probably thinking about the American researcher who did a survey of American women.

http://alumni.stanford.edu/get/page/magazine/article/?article_id=29954

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