Sex Outside of Marriage in Regency England || Bridgerton and Jane Austen's Novels

Please consider supporting my art by buying me a "Ko-fi"! https://ko-fi.com/ajaneitesews Variations on and the consequences of sex outside of marriage in Bridgerton, Jane Austen’s Novels, and Regency England. Fornication, prostitution, masturbation, pornography, sodomy, and maybe lesbian sex. The history of persecution of sexualities that are not heteronormative. This video is an attempt, in part, to mitigate the erasure of diverse sexualities from history. Music: “Pirouette” performed by Asher Fulero; YouTube Music References: Gilbert, Arthur N. “Buggery and the British Navy, 1700-1861.” Journal of Social History, vol. 10, no. 1, 1976, pp. 72–98. JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/3786421. Accessed 3 Mar. 2021. Citation for Table 3 on crime statistics during the Regency. Burg, B. R. "The HMS African Revisited: The Royal Navy and the Homosexual Community." Journal of Homosexuality 56.2 (2009): 173-94. Web. Regency History: The Magdalen House in Regency London, by Rachel Knowles; https://www.regencyhistory.net/2017/0... Phillips, C. Child Abandonment in England, 1741–1834: The Case of the London Foundling Hospital. Genealogy 2019, 3, 35. https://doi.org/10.3390/genealogy3030035 Rictor Norton, Mother Clap’s Molly House: The Gay Subculture in England 1700-1830 https://www.washingtonpost.com/outloo... Susan M. Korba. ""IMPROPER AND DANGEROUS DISTINCTIONS": FEMALE RELATIONSHIPS AND EROTIC DOMINATION IN "EMMA"." Studies in the Novel 29.2 (1997): 139-63. Web. Lisa Moore. ""Something More Tender Still than Friendship": Romantic Friendship in Early-Nineteenth-Century England." Feminist Studies 18.3 (1992): 499-520. Web.