What's interesting to me - about that whole fantasy set up - is that the middle class, in GB, at least, used their "respectability" to position themselves as worthy when aristocrats who had titles but no money started marrying into the growing middle class that had money from actual work but no titles or prestige.
Daughters were the vehicle for middle-class upward mobility by marrying them off to guys who, often, didn't give a shit about them but needed to marry someone with money.
so, the fantasy is based upon some pretty sad reality.
I would love to see how women behaved, sexually, in a society in which economic parity existed. We do see some of it among a few - but if women didn't feel like marriage was a vehicle to financial security - I bet women would behave differently, sexually. just my guess, tho.
or maybe part of the premise of my book idea... 
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