We tend to think of the Victorians as the personification of prudery and puritanism, a people whose sexual attitudes, practices, and knowledge differed greatly from our own, to their detriment. Indeed, even in the midst of the AIDS crisis and our growing concern about safe sex, the Victorians
hardly seem an appealing role model of sexual behavior. But is this image really very accurate? What did the Victorians really think about sex? What were...