HST 222 Lecture Notes - Lecture 19: Havelock Ellis, Premarital Sex, Paresthesia
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Lecture 19 - hysteria and the new sexuality. The part where white men thought basically all black men were rapists. Psychiatrists told women that they should be more sexually active. At the turn of the century - vibrators now available for home use (advertised as back massagers to get around the comstock law) Women can now have premarital sex and not have her reputation ruined because of it. Basically just expected not to have sex in excess. Can go out with friends and date outside the family circle. New types of jobs are open to women. Working leaves a women outside her family"s control and allows her to be. Working leaves a women outside her family"s control and allows her to be friendly with more men. Men are still supposed to be sexually aggressive. Rejection is considered unusual - this is what the hysteria stems from. Most of them are psychiatrists, but they"re people who study sex.
