It is clear too, that the arts are associated with sexual pleasure, the sciences with sexual restraint..

Auguste, patronisingly benevolent, glowed with virtue at his sexual restraint.

"I don't believe we have descended downward from glorious days, when people practiced sexual restraint," he said.

Within Blake's myth, she represents female domination and sexual restraints that limit the artistic imagination.

For example, tight lacing and corsets were popular when sexual restraint was most valued (hence the term "straitlaced").

Anderson, in return jokingly replied, "So the epitome of womanhood is sexual restraint?

Russell places a high value on sexual restraint.

He added, "The next time somebody gets a lecture from a priest on the necessity of sexual restraint, their first reaction might be one of cynicism."

Extrapolating from their usual response to environmental issues, I assume that liberals will want to attack the problem of excessive sexual restraint through coercive regulation.

The era is popularly associated with the "Victorian" values of social and sexual restraint.