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... the great periods of cultural efflorescence have been those characterized by a large amount of freedom in sex - relations , and that those of the greatest cultural degradation and decline have been [ xxi ] Introduction.
... the great periods of cultural efflorescence have been those characterized by a large amount of freedom in sex - relations , and that those of the greatest cultural degradation and decline have been [ xxi ] Introduction.
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... freedom which existed in the age of the feudal nobility , how Protestantism and capital- ism served to promote repression along the line of the compensatory type of Puritanical ethics , and how the rise of the modern proletariat is ...
... freedom which existed in the age of the feudal nobility , how Protestantism and capital- ism served to promote repression along the line of the compensatory type of Puritanical ethics , and how the rise of the modern proletariat is ...
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... freedom of sex - impulse ; the economic life of the bourgeoisie encouraged repression , or at least rigid restriction , of the sex impulse . In the literature and art of the aristocracy , therefore , we discover in matters of sex ...
... freedom of sex - impulse ; the economic life of the bourgeoisie encouraged repression , or at least rigid restriction , of the sex impulse . In the literature and art of the aristocracy , therefore , we discover in matters of sex ...
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... freedom of expression ; things sex- ual and coprolalic were neither masqued nor sweet- ened . To the most delicate of subjects not the least timidity of approach was evinced . The fascination and delight of sensual ecstasies were not ...
... freedom of expression ; things sex- ual and coprolalic were neither masqued nor sweet- ened . To the most delicate of subjects not the least timidity of approach was evinced . The fascination and delight of sensual ecstasies were not ...
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... Elizabeth's coronation , it does not fail to reflect the freedom of sex attitude manifest throughout the Tudor and Jacobean periods . The influence of Ter- ence and Plautus upon Udall's play , of course , [ 15 ] Elizabethan England.
... Elizabeth's coronation , it does not fail to reflect the freedom of sex attitude manifest throughout the Tudor and Jacobean periods . The influence of Ter- ence and Plautus upon Udall's play , of course , [ 15 ] Elizabethan England.
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