{"id":2744,"date":"2007-01-10T06:53:16","date_gmt":"2007-01-10T14:53:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lisahistory.net\/wpotclass\/?p=124"},"modified":"2007-01-10T06:53:16","modified_gmt":"2007-01-10T14:53:16","slug":"sex-and-marriage-connections-to-victorianism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lisahistory.net\/wordpress\/2007\/01\/sex-and-marriage-connections-to-victorianism\/","title":{"rendered":"Sex and Marriage &#8212; connections to Victorianism"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&lt;![CDATA[In a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/doc\/prem\/200612\/nehring-sex\">recent review in Atlantic Monthly<\/a>, Christina Nehring criticizes the premise of Esther Perel&#8217;s book &#8220;Mating in Captivity&#8221;. Although she agrees with Perel&#8217;s basic premise that everyday life kills eroticism, her suggestion opposes Perel&#8217;s view that sex must be further worked on between couples. Rather, Nehring claims it is time to <i>re<\/i>mystify rather than <i>de<\/i>mystify sex, to make it more mysterious.<\/p>\n<p>I find this interesting because in one of my favorite books, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/When-Passion-Reigned-Sex-Victorians\/dp\/0465089925\/sr=1-1\/qid=1168411702\/ref=sr_1_1\/105-2180006-1038029?ie=UTF8&amp;s=books\">When Passion Reigned: Sex and the Victorians<\/a> (Patricia Anderson 1996), it is argued that this is exactly what the Victorians were doing. All the nonsense about strict sexual morality and covering up table limbs and such was an intentionally mystifying veneer, not a cover-up for the fringe activities of Victorian brothels.<\/p>\n<p>So I suppose the call is to reVictorianize sexuality. ]]&gt;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&lt;![CDATA[In a recent review in Atlantic Monthly, Christina Nehring criticizes the premise of Esther Perel&#8217;s book &#8220;Mating in Captivity&#8221;. Although she agrees with Perel&#8217;s basic premise that everyday life kills eroticism, her suggestion opposes Perel&#8217;s view that sex must be further worked on between couples. Rather, Nehring claims it is time to remystify rather than [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2744","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-history"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lisahistory.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2744","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lisahistory.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lisahistory.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lisahistory.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lisahistory.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2744"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lisahistory.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2744\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lisahistory.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2744"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lisahistory.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2744"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lisahistory.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2744"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}