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To the sensitive young woman who has had the benefits of proper upbringing, the wedding day is, ironically, both the happiest and the most terrifying day of her life. On the positive side, there is the wedding itself, in which the bride is the central attraction in a beautiful and inspiring ceremony, symbolising her triumph in securing a male to provide for all her needs for the rest of her life. On the negative side, there is the wedding night, during which the bride must pay the piper, so to speak, by facing for the first time the terrible experience of sex.

It's a joke, right? Right?

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It can be empowering if marriage, sex, and childbearing are an inescapably expected part of your life. If you don't really want to have children, or at the very least don't want to become a broodmare (since reliable birth control existed at the time, but was quite illegal and taboo), a fear of sex might really be a handy way to take control over your own body. It's known that Victorian women did a lot to limit their childbearing.

Err, see my comment further down the thread. It explains it better. :)