Gresham College Lectures

What did eighteenth-century men want?

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Such is the gloom that surrounds settling down today and the glamour that attaches to mature bachelor freedom, it is hard to imagine that there was a time when marriage represented the summit of a young man's hopes.
Forty years after the sexual liberalization of the 1970s, it is...

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