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A 7 page research paper that examines the role played by the medical profession of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries in determining what was considered to be normal sexuality. The writer shows how doctors during this era largely considered normal female sexuality to be a symptom of pathology. Bibliography lists 4 sources.
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of England." In other words, that the nineteenth century concept of female sexuality is that a woman engaged in sexual intercourse as a matter of marital duty. The following
discussion examines the role played by the medical profession of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries in determining what was considered to be normal sexuality. Toward the end
of the nineteenth century, Clelia D. Mosher, a physician and a college professor, surveyed her women patients pertaining to their sexual and reproductive lives (DEmilio and Freedman, 1988). Because of
Moshers scientific curiosity, historians have a small sample of how middle-class, married women perceived their sex lives. DEmilio and Freedman (1988) argues that two of these cases can be used
to highlight major themes that characterized the transformation of sexuality over the course of the nineteenth century. Mrs. B reported that she had twelve pregnancies during twenty-eight years of
marriage and considered the highest purpose of intercourse to be reproduction (DEmilio and Freedman, 1988). However, married in the 1880s, Mrs. C., while also stating that reproduction was the most
important aspect of marriage, was much more concerned with controlling fertility. Also, Mrs. C indicated that, in her marriage, neither reproduction nor physical necessity alone was seen as justifying intercourse.
She stated that sex was "only warranted as an expression of true and passionate love" (DEmilio and Freedman, 1988, p.56). DEmilio and Freedman (1988) take the work of Mosher as
evidence that new patterns of sexual expression were emerging during the nineteenth century. Literature with all sort of sexual advice proliferated throughout the century. Physicians, as well as lay
people. Inundated Americans with the message that bodily well-being required that "individuals exercise some measure of control over their sexual desires" (DEmilio and Freedman, 1988, p. 67). The idea proliferated
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