My understanding (and I am by no means an expert) is that it would have varied wildly from family to family -- though if she was upper-class she would be less likely to have witnessed practical sex ed, in the form of animals fucking in the farmyard, etc. I expect she'd probably get lectures about doing her wifely duties, and whether or not she could expect any pleasure from this varies according to whether or not the woman teaching her ever did (although it was believed by many that women were not supposed to enjoy sex at all-- that only prostitutes enjoyed sex, and that for women, the compensation was the joy of having BABIEZ).
Also, the average age of first menstruation in Victorian times was 17 years old, which meant that certain aspects of sex ed could often be delayed a lot longer than they can be now.
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Date: 2009-07-18 07:43 am (UTC)Also, the average age of first menstruation in Victorian times was 17 years old, which meant that certain aspects of sex ed could often be delayed a lot longer than they can be now.