| dc.description.abstract | Sex is one of important elements in human civilization development. Meanwhile, sexual initiation is one of indispensable stages for life progress. In a period that sexual activities prevailed, such as Ming Dynasty and Qing Dynasty, which both were highly commercialized societies in Chinese history, the sexual philosophy became complicated due to abstinence and indulgence on sex. Compared to male’s sexual activities, female’s sexual activities appear not only to be attached to males, concealed from the sexual fashion at that time, but also obscure in the growth of females. This makes that puberty switches suddenly to the sexual behavior after marriage in females’ life. For this reason, it is crucial to recollect the lost sex education linkage in females’ life via the pornographic publications which reveal the sexual culture. Thereby, I attempt to recognize how boudoir (閨閣) females could receive the sexual initiation through the females, who master sex, and the pornographic publications in life progress.
This thesis includes three parts: at first, I emphasize on the boudoir females, and discuss about the meaning of two stages, that is, 髫齡and加笄, in the growth of females. Also, the significance of sexual education between the stages is highlighted. The second part extends the topic of previous part, focusing on how the females who have left the boudoir may bring influences on the ones in the boudoir. In the final, considering the pornographic publications in Ming Dynasty and Qing Dynasty, I study on how the boudoir females read, accept the way that males describe females, and realized whether or not the females can be initiated in their lives.
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