RE374 Chapter Notes -Psychological Repression, Sexology, Ananga Ranga
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Not only offered public frank translation, but had footnotes about esoteric aspects of islamic culture, especially sexual customs. Disintegration of the high victorian moral and cultural consensus was a crisis of. Muslim lands of north africa became focus of parliamentary debates and press headlines as british occupied egypt. Orientalism served as outlet for english who were dissatisfied with own society. Gave rise to two strands of british modernism: transition from moral to psychological view of sexuality, embrace of instinct and emotion as means of liberation. Burton had interest sexual practices of local peoples, especially when they contrasted with western norms: points of interest includes. Phallic worship: unable to talk about these in britain and was censored. Obscene publications act (1857: permitted authorities to issue warrants in search of pornographic publications. Harsh penalties were dealt: people skirted law by outsourcing publication. Combination of imperialism, sadism and sexism suffused erotic interests of.
