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“Attitudes toward Sex in Antebellum America” must seem to some readers a ridiculous subject. Wasn’t prudery in that era so extreme that piano legs were covered by pantaloons? A typical reaction to this topic by students and colleagues has been to ask with a laugh, “What? Was there more than one?”
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Horowitz, H.L. (2006). Introduction: Voices in the Sexual Conversation in Antebellum America. In: Attitudes toward Sex in Antebellum America. The Bedford Series in History and Culture. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-137-05413-5_1
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