Sex Is Private and Isn't for the People in the 18th Century

Even middle class people would be sharing rooms and if you were poor then you might have grown up in a room full of your entire family so where your parents going to be having sex you'll all be in the same bed together. The whole notion of privacy around sex again I think is a very modern invention built largely on the assumption of historians that sex is private and I don't think it was for the people in the 18th century. So yes you would have seen people having sex you'd have seen people nude in ways that would have quite appalled us today but that would have been pretty part of the course wouldn't it? 100%.