"In my experience the habitual bodily expression of love has a deep psychological effect in making possible complete mental sympathy & perfecting the spiritual union that must be the lasting ‘marriage’ after the passion of love has passed away with the years."

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Woman, born in 1867, responding to the world’s first and only Victorian sex survey, rediscovered a century later to debunk major cultural misconceptions about the era.

For a light companion, see this pop-up book about Victorian sex.

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