The sexual role of men and women in the Victorian age would be considered very radical in today's society. They believed that the women should be put on a pedestal and with being put on the pedestal she loses a lot. Also, the "modern Medicine" that appeared in the Victorian age wasn't appreciated and practiced because of the ridged sexual role beliefs.

The general attitude toward sex in the Victorian age was very negative. Sex was to be had for married couples only for reproduction. People in the Victorian age were so anti-fun sex, that when Dr. Charles Knowlton wrote a book on how sex was a normal human appetite, he went to jail for 3 months on his views. Sex for fun was a sin in the Victorian age, and the prostitutes that sold themselves for sex were considered the lowest people in society. Another common idea on sex was that if a women wasn't a virgin, and she wasn't married, she would never get married because no decent man would want to be married to a women who wasn't a virgin. Also, a women who was single and a not a virgin was thought of as being a nymphomaniac, and if she got married she would

With sex there comes babies. In the Victorian age when children were born the wife would stay home and raise the children by herself. The father would have nothing to do with the child raising process. Once the family had enough children the couple would stop having sex with each other. The women would have to start practicing abstinence for the good of the family. There is a very good reason that the women stayed home to raise the children, and practiced abstinence. Since all the men worked at factories they would have to go into the city. The city was full of sin and the poor men couldn't help themselves from indulging in the sin. The sins of the city consisted of drinking, gambling, fighting, and whoring. The men were filled with sin, and they couldn't help raise the children because they were soiled. The wife wasn't having sex with anyone, not even her husband, and didn't indulge in the sinful ways of the city and was pure and capable of raising good pure children.

If a woman did have the illness of nymphomania there were some medical steps that could be used to stop her affliction. A woman who was a nymphomaniac could have her clitoris removed and she would be cured of her disease. Also, if a woman couldn't have sex because it was too painful doctors would prescribe a little alcohol laced with opium. This core worked quite well. Women would brink a little sip of the mixture and she was pain free for hours. Another cure for painful sex was for the man to fill a rag with chloroform and cover his wives face with it. This technique would knock the women out and the man could go to town. If sexual problems still occurred you could go to alternative doctors. Herbalists could mix up a herbal remedy for the women to drink. Also, patent medicine was available. This was a miracle concoction made to solve women's problems in bed. Patent medicine was outlawed with the pure food and drug law of 1906.

go off and have sex with any man she could.

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According to medical doctors, men needed to go see the prostitutes. Doctors believed that people were healthier when they had sex. Also, men needed to have sex. A study found that people who were getting married were living longer. The doctors said since people who were married were having sex then sex must make you live longer.

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