Kent wrote:
"I remember one reviewer who used to complain about the
projection of modern sexual mores onto tales set in the first
half of the century
(before the sexual revolution of the 1960s), when in reality
no-sex-before-marriage was a rather strict norm."
It was a pretty strict norm in reality, but was it in
fiction, especially pulp fiction? I see no lack of willing
women in Gold Medals. for instance, many of which were
written prior to the '60s.
Mark
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