It was still a time during which talking about sexuality was unconceivable, and the young would reach the age of marriage lacking the self-confidence to act as spontaneously as the instinct would command. In July 1962 two young newlyweds, Florence and Edward, raised in two distinct realities, are to spend their wedding night at a Georgian hotel and consummate their marriage according to society’s expectations. The first lines of Ian McEwan’s masterpiece On Chesil Beach present the background of British courtship that, until the sexual revolution in the 1960s, consisted of repression and license. “They were young, educated, and both virgins on this, their wedding night, and they lived in a time when a conversation about sexual difficulties was plainly impossible.” (3).
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