Puritans

In "The Puritans and Sex" Edmund S. Morgan claims that the Puritans were not simply a strong religious group of fanatics who prohibited all earthly pleasures, but were actually influenced by human desires and weaknesses to partaking in "pleasures of the flesh." Sexual intercourse was a human exigency and according to the Puritans religion, marriage was the only proper supply for it. They passed laws to punish adultery with death, and people with unmarried sexual relations were whipped however Morgan said that extra-marital sexual intercourse was fairly common and that it was so numerous during that era that the Puritans could not enforce the severe penalties for which their laws provided. ,JLJA hsha hslihja asldkjsaid alis hs aljia ldadao oiuo oiu ahlj oiuasd; aslkdi lol lol lol lol lol lol lol lol lol lol oa oa oa oa aoaa oaa oaa loaSp gd sgdias giy a hkljh uhs halkju shhh yhhy hyjuh hsyggt teah the teacher the teacher the teacher the teachet the the teacher the teacher the teacher the teachet the the teacher the teacher the teacher the teachet the the teacher the teacher the teacher the teachet the the teacher the teacher the teacher the teachet the the teacher the teacher the teacher the teachet the the teacher the teacher the teacher the teachet the the teacher the teacher the teacher the teachet the the teacher the teacher the teacher the teachet the the teacher the teacher the teacher the teachet the the teacher the teacher the teacher the teachet the the teacher the teacher the teacher the teachet the the teacher the teacher the teacher the teachet the the teacher the teacher the teacher the teachet the the teacher the teacher the teacher the teachet the the teacher the teacher the teacher the teachet the the teacher the teacher the teacher the teachet the the teacher the teacher the teacher the teachet the .