Slothrop's sexy Puritan ancestors: link to new book review

[pynchonoid]

[...] most Puritans believed in a woman's right to
"that pang of pleasure" associated with intercourse.
The laws of New Haven -- one of the strictest and most
conservative Puritan enclaves -- allowed wives to
summarily divorce impotent or underperforming husbands
on that score alone....Puritan households exercised
great permissiveness when it came to premarital sex.
During the late colonial period it was not unknown for
pious fathers to encourage "the young men courting
their daughters to spend the whole night at it under
their own roofs. After the old folks retired the
couple slept together unattended [...]

...from a review in today's San Francisco Chronicle of
_The Genuine Article: A Historian Looks at Early
America_ by Edmund S. Morgan.  
read it all:
http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2004/06/27/RVGR97804G1.DTL


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