In this talk, Bill Gibson examines the way in which the history of sex in the eighteenth century has tended to exclude religion from discussions. In fact, attitudes to sex were strongly influenced by religion - and not always in the ways that might be expected. Some aspects of sex were disapproved of by the clergy, but in many cases religion was responsible for the liberalising attitudes towards sex and sexual behaviour. The talk considers some surprising aspects of sex in the period and makes a case that we cannot secularise sex.
Professor William Gibson (Oxford Brookes University)
https://www.brookes.ac.uk/about-brookes/history/
2022-05-24