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Late-Victorian Sexual Respectability and the Social System

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Peter T. Cominos
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In the process of establishing continence as the norm of gentlemanly sexual behaviour, continence became a Victorian gospel. The mere narration of the process under Section II in the previous issue of this journal did not in itself yield the historical meaning of the gospel of thrift in semen. To understand the process historically is to ascertain the function of continence in a comprehensive system of relationships. More specifically the gospel of continence reveals its meaning when it is related to (1) the dynamic quality inherent in the structure and functioning of the Respectable Economic System, the compulsion to accumulate and reinvest capital, (2) Respectable thought about the purpose of political economy, and (3) the degree of integration of the virtue of continence into the Respectable Social System.

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International Review of Social History , Volume 8 , Issue 2 , August 1963 , pp. 216 - 250
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Copyright © Internationaal Instituut voor Sociale Geschiedenis 1963

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page 246 note 3 “The lost of the self has increaed the necessity to conform, for it results in a profound doubt of one's own identity…The lost of identity then makes it still more imperative to conform; it means that one can be sure of oneself only if one lives up to the expectations of others. If we do not live up to this picture we not only risk disapproval and increased isolation, but we risk losing the identity of our personality, which means jeopardizing sanity.” Ibid., p. 219.

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