The images of early American sexuality are of prim and proper Puritans and sexually repressed Victorians. Who perpetuated these views?

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Religious and medical authorities played a significant role in perpetuating views of early American sexuality as repressed and strictly regulated. The Puritanical beliefs of early American colonizers, as well as Victorian-era ideas about sex and morality, were largely propagated and enforced by these types of authority figures.

The Images of Early American Sexuality Are of Prim and Proper