A nice interview about the ever-interesting 18th century. The most remarkable thing to my eyes: We have very good data on births outside marriage and births within seven months of marriage, which is a pretty good indicator of people having had sex before marriage. These are aggregate statistics covering the whole [of England], and show […]
Tag Archives: sexual revolution
Merrie Olde England.
06-May-12The Sexual Evolution.
07-Dec-08My 1989 copy of Samuel Hynes’ Flights of Passage has a quotation on its front cover from Paul Fussell, a man not known to this writer but sufficiently respected in 1989 to need no further identification, which describes the book as “A war memoir which will become a classic.” I believe we may conclude […]