excerpt from
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/37498110/ns/health-sexual_health/

Sex, on the other hand, was more problematic, especially for the 19th century advice givers. One thing Alcott knew for sure was that married men should never, ever, ever, masturbate. Not only would it wreck a man’s health, but the masturbating man condemned his descendants “to suffer by inheriting feeble constitutions, or actual disease.”

Alcott wasn’t all that keen on intercourse, either. “I am, however, quite sure that one indulgence to each lunar month is all that the best health of the parties can possibly require,” he wrote in “The Physiology of Marriage” in 1856. In fact, he argued, “paradoxical as it may seem, it is scarcely too much to say, that one of the very ends of marriage is gradually to purify us wholly from sensuality.”

If you do not want to be purified of your sensuality, be glad Alice B. Stockham was not your doctor. Marital sex, she taught, was a lot like prostitution (largely because men were too demanding). It was forbidden if a woman was pregnant not only because she thought it harmed women, but because it ruined the morality of the coming child, she warned in 1886’s “Tokology, A Book for Every Woman.”

Luckily, married people apparently could avoid temptation through diet. “To live continent lives, avoid food containing aphrodisiac stimulants, such as coffee, eggs, oysters, and animal food,” Stockham wrote.

I know my ex read at least the second paragraph she was also worried about the morality of the kids.

I think she meant rabbit foods

think vegans have more kids than meat eaters?

I really thought the ladies would be all ove this thread agreeing with part of it

Because the parents are messed up. Ever notice how some kids turn out great ? Thats because they have great parents.

And what would we be agreeing with? The history of sex is one screwed up piece of work. There's no doubt about it.

I found nothing to agree with in all that victorian nonsense. Personally I need more sex than I've found any man can handle, but I won't quit searching for my virile Mr. Right!