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The English seem to have become much less prudish in the past ten years. The so-called 'four letter words' (you know which words they are...) are printed in full; skirts are even shorter than they were in 1926; sexual behavior, so far as can be judged, is less restricted by taboos and prejudices than at any other time in our history. But are we really in the midst of a permanent revolution in manners?
 
The author of Mrs Grundy thinks not. His book is a detailed and absorbing study of English prudery (which he defines as interference, organized or unorganized, in other people's pleasures) as it has found expression in various fields since the Middle Ages.