“There will actually be some people in early New England who are censured by the church because they have deprived their married partner of sex for three months or more and this is seen as bad.”
Bet I can guess the gender of the people who were censured…
In the 1600s, a man named James Mattock was expelled from the First Church of Boston. His crime? It wasn’t using lewd language or smiling on the Sabbath or anything else that we might think the Puritans had disapproved of. Rather, James Mattock had refused to have sex with his wife for two years.
Looking at other sources, the expulsion was in 1640.
Bet I can guess the gender of the people who were censured…
I’m assuming that you’re guessing “female”?
https://sexualityandthecity.com/2016/11/26/when-women-wanted-sex-much-more-than-men/
Looking at other sources, the expulsion was in 1640.