In sixteenth and early seventeenth century in England women's attractiveness were played by the "practical visibility and erotic half-concealment"(Korhonen 335). Therefore in England in sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries identity of ideal beautiful woman was considered by the dress, gesture and comportment that she was presenting and wearing. ... "Gay men's revenge" is predicated upon a popular mode of double seduction: the selling of male bodies to both heterosexual women and gay men. ... In the 1950s the ads in the news papers were informing women that having lighter skin t...

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Black clergymen were described with whites as "ignorant but cunning men who taught the most outrageous antinomian principles, subversive of all morals and ruinous to all correct notions of God and duty".7 Though the content of these black preachers" sermons is largely undocumented due to the reticence of the slaves in front of whites, the spirituals and slave accounts of lively and joyous worship and celebration have been documented in personal slave accounts. ... Ironically, the same story the white Christians connected with in motivating themselves for separation from England was used by ...

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Named after Queen Victoria, whose reign in England lasted from 1837 to 1901, Victorian values underscored the importance of male strength, female purity, and the restraint of sexual desires. Women and men were seen as serving distinctly different roles. ... Women were considered to be virtuous, and sexually passionless, and thus were held to a different moral standard than men. ... They contended that prostitution was a vice for both the prostitute and the costumer, and that women and men should be held to a single standard of sexual morality. ... At these places, young men and women could...

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