Honor, Impotence, and Male Sexuality in Nineteenth – Century French Medicine.

MEN'S sexual behavior; MIDDLE class; NINETEENTH century; MANNERS & customs

Considers the role played by medical theories in helping to create and maintain the sexual norms of 19th-century bourgeois culture in France. Implications of sex difference for the sexuality of middle-class males; Factors contributing to the shaping of 19th-century ideals of masculine sexuality; Texts where the principles of sexual honor, sexual exhaustion and impotence may be found.