HISC 27 Chapter Notes - Chapter 7: Sexual Intercourse, Orgasm, Foreplay
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The sexual discipline which the whole citizenry was to adopt was both more all- embracing and less well defined than it had been before the reformation. Now any sexual relationship outside marriage was counted sinful and any occasion on which the sexes mingles. Prostitution had previously been regarded as the cure for the dangers of male lust, protecting (as all who favoured its existence insisted) the honour of women within the household. Once the brothel was abolished, and prostitutes were considered either as fornications or adulteresses like other women, it is not surprising that such care should have been devoted to redrawing the boundaries within the household. Prostitution was described as unchaste acts , sinful acts , the undisciplined life , Chaste , pious , fromm: fromm, as the council used the word, meant right living obeying the sexual code; but it also meant pious, right believing, piety began to merge with sexually orthodox behaviour.
