PSY 3122 Study Guide - Spermatorrhea, Masturbation, Psy
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Purigans of england: founders of the us = purigans. Sex was a wife"s privilege and husbands responsibility. Instead of belief, must be justified with science. Period in which sexual interest was viewed as animalistic. Spermatorrhea: if men lose too much, they could deplete it and get disease. Men seen as unable to control themselves mental blindness. Children with mittens in bed, so they couldn"t masturbate. Women had to be covered head to toe. Breast= bosom, so even the language was covered. Temptation avoided not because sinful but because of spermatorrhea. Victorin era, what did they do for sexual expression: prostitution: 40000 (1880"s) in one city alone, pornography. Period during which we start having justification that if women reveals herself, its her fault she gets assaulted or raped. But the very poor are also (idea that poor are naturally animalistic) Middle class gets the burden of the birtues.
