Mosher (1980) The Mosher Survey – Sexual Attitudes of 45 Victorian Women

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Mosher, Clelia Duel. The Mosher Survey: Sexual Attitudes of 45 Victorian Women. (New York: Arno Press, 1980)

Octavo. xix, 469 pages. Bound in maroon cloth-covered boards stamped in silver. No DJ as issued.

Condition: VG+. Little wear, spine solid and straight. Silver stamping bright. Slight darkening of bottom corner of textblock where pages may have touched the book shelf.

“Clelia Duel Mosher (December 16, 1863 – December 21, 1940) was a physician, hygienist and women’s health advocate who disapproved of Victorian stereotypes about the physical incapacitates of women.

“Her most famous work, published posthumously, was a survey that she began in 1892 as an undergraduate when preparing to lecture on the “Marital Relation” before the Mother’s Club of the University of Wisconsin, and continued throughout her career. It is the only known existing survey of Victorian women’s sexual habits,and was initially controversial because of its frankness and the overwhelmingly sex-positive views of the participants, even including the use of “male sheaths” (now called condoms) and “rubber cap over the uterus” (either a diaphragm or cervical cap) birth control.All this stood in high contrast to other existing historical literature of the time which held that women have no sexual desires and sex should only be used for reproduction.One theory is because the researcher was a woman gathering data from women that knew the results would only be put forth before a purely female audience, the normal strictures of propriety of that time were let down and more realistic data was actually gathered.” – Wikipedia