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When Charles leaves for London to speak to Mr. Freeman, the narrator takes a chapter to discuss the paradoxes of Victorian sexuality. The Victorians are known today for the sexual repression of their culture perhaps more than for anything else. However, Fowles argues that the Victorians didn’t actually have less sex or worse sex than modern people do; it was only talked about less. In referencing the Naughty Nineties, he means the 1890s, which were a period of comparative sexual openness.
In fact, it’s necessary to think about sex quite a bit in order to prevent oneself from thinking about…