It's also quite important to remember that Victorian prudishness wasn't an idea without merit. For hundreds of years before penicillin, promiscuous sex could result in syphilis, which would destroy your body, make you crazy, and kill you. Some of the top minds of that age died insane in sanitariums because they had a night with the wrong girl. Sexual conservatism was a survival mechanism, not some power play -- people actually like getting laid after all.
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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3956094/
The first recorded cases were in France, a few years after Christopher Columbus returned from the new world.
The first recorded cases were in France, a few years after Christopher Columbus returned from the new world.