[C19fan]

Those Georgians sure partied hard.

[agere_contra]

Georgian Britain London.

[allmendream]

My Grandfather told me that back during WWII things got so crazy you would wake up in the morning and have to introduce yourself to the woman beside you in bed!

There were times when such things were more open, and times when such things were kept more behind closed doors; but I don’t imagine there was EVER a time when such things did not go on.

But the ‘end of the world’ feeling of WWII - and the numerous young men sent off to war - and the ‘professional’ women complaining about the ‘amateurs’ “giving it away!” - and the recent advent of the automobile and the sexual license it allowed - all made that time “rather interesting” to hear my Grandfather tell it.

[heartwood]

Yes, but did it start with the Georgians? Samuel Pepys’s diary is as salacious as Boswell’s.

[BitWielder1]

I suspect this has been going on in waves for thousands of years.
A new generation discovers sex and thinks it's great until the onset of diseases and unwanted children.
Then they pull back and realize morals is not so bad after all.
One or two generations later they have a sexual revolution again and thinks the old generation are just too old fashioned.
And so it goes, on and on.

[Migraine]

I think most 18th century playas smelled to high heaven; but I could get past that if Moll Flanders really looked like Kim Novak :)