The Puritans weren’t prudish. In fact, they were passionate.
From the beginning, Puritans maintained sexual intercourse was necessary for procreation, but also asserted sex was an important way for couples to bond in a loving relationship.
“They talk about the duty to desire, that you’re supposed to engage in intercourse with your married partner and that this is good,” says Bremer. “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.”
https://www.bostonmagazine.com/arts-entertainment/2016/10/18/puritans-and-sex-myth/
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