galt54:
Maybe I should have been born in 19th century England. I might have felt more at home there. Those were reputedly the golden days of the English Vice!
But would you then have been a noble man there?

Because if not, if you would have been one of the working class you would have been one of them who got the whippings. This were only golden days for the landed gentry and for some priests (as it is today, too) and for the rich and very high noble men as the Prince Regent and his entourage, but that's the same today. Suppression, that's it, if of civil rights or sexuality or other is ever only for the poor, even today.
But in "our repressed culture" more people have much more freedom of choice as in the time you wish to live in.
If you are the king, you can have prostitutes, or visiting sex clubs and somebody who wish to make a little money by selling a scandalous book about that, may make some small ripples on the surface of the Skärgården. A spanker like Hans Scheike is despised from all the brave citizen.
And btw. a friend told me this morning of a steak his wife celebrated for him on Sunday.
That must have been from an ox, big as an elephant.