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Robert Darby

Robert Darby is an independent scholar with an interest in many aspects of medical and cultural history. He is the author of A Surgical Temptation: The Demonization of the Foreskin and the Rise of Circumcision in Britain (2005) and, most recently, an abridged edition of George Drysdale’s >em>Elements of Social Science. He lives in Canberra.

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Published in Overland Issue 206 Autumn 2012 · Culture

Another other Victorian

Robert Darby

Once upon a time, Victorian England had a reputation as such an arctic tundra of sexual frigidity that people believed the ridiculous claim that piano legs had to be covered with drapery to preserve decency; or that the typical mother’s nuptial advice was ‘Just lie back, dear, and think of Britain’.