MATH 1A Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Pseudoscience, Helen Lefkowitz Horowitz, Gonorrhea
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Throughout the text, attitudes toward sex in antebellum america, there are many primary sources that depict the views and opinions on masturbation throughout the many social classes of the time period. The text shows a wide variety of possible explanations for these views and opinions, but centers its focus onto one main view. This lens is on the societal morals of. Antebellum america, whether through culture, science, or politics and law between the lower working class, middle class, and upper class of the time. Thus, there is great certainty that during the time period of antebellum america, the main social classes" morals had cultural, scientific, and legal influences on the views of the people on the subject of masturbation. The evidence is shown in both the two main sections of the book, with six quoted examples from. Voices in the sexual conversation: the four frameworks and three quoted examples from.