Carnal relations and church courts in Tudor Ireland

By Henry A. Jefferies According to one historian, Gaelic Ireland in the sixteenth century was ‘a society in which sexual expression was uninhibited’, but that strange assertion was based on absolutely no evidence whatsoever. Indeed, it is contradicted by a basic fact of human biology: uninhibited sexual expression before modern contraceptives became available could have ... Read more

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