Once a Week is Ample: Or, the Moderately Sensual Victorian's Guide to Restraint of the Passions

by Gerard MacDonald

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The Victorians were a chaste bunch - at least on the surface of it - and enjoyed nothing better than to indulge in a little repression and moralising. In choice quotations from eminent authorities of the period, Once A Week Is Ample reveals how to handle that most delicate issue of human existence: sex.

`The personally secret life of men and women has never been handled more delicately, chastely, convincingly, or with more ennobling force, than is done in this book.'

Sex, or conjugal and carnal relations, was not something the Victorians openly applauded. Delicate, private, embarrassing...it was all...

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  • ISBN13 9780002559218
  • Publish Date 3 November 1997
  • Publish Status Out of Print
  • Out of Print 12 February 1999
  • Publish Country GB
  • Publisher HarperCollins Publishers
  • Imprint HarperCollins Publishers Ltd