I think it was because two little kids were in the room. Besides, girls back then were told about the basics regarding biology and the birds and the bees when they reached adolescents. But explicit details were withheld until the girl got engaged. Once that happened, her mother (or maternal figure) would tell her all she needed to know so she wouldn't get scared on her wedding night.
I'll admit it, Benedict, Elosie, and Colin are my favorite trio of siblings. When these three do interviews together they're just as funny. It's almost as if they're siblings in real life as well, probably why it's so easy for them to bring that sibling chemistry to the screen.
I find it hard to believe women were THAT sheltered and clueless back in the day, it would be hard to go an entire life not catching even animals in nature doing the deed.
Trust me, they did have a certain degree of knowledge regarding the birds and the bees. But explicit details, like pleasure areas, were withheld until the girl got officially engaged. I think the only reason the mom refused to answer was because two little kids were in the room
True, but the tradition continues in the United States- just ask a teenage Christian evangelist who promised her virginity to her father for safe keeping as if she doesn't have a body nor mind of her own.
First off, two little kids were in the room so it wasn't the time or place for a conversation. Second off, girls back then did have a certain degree of knowledge regarding the birds and the bees. But explicit details were withheld until they were engaged. It was supposed to stop them from becoming who*es and be 'in tact' on her wedding night.
@@TimberlakeTigerGirl I'm talking about the creepy, grooming, perverted sexual tyranny of Christian evangelism that withholds sexual knowledge from teenagers and shames them for any kind of sexual expression. Not to mention, reinforce the double standard that men are allowed to be sexually adventurous as long as women maintain their virginal virtue. The tradition may have morphed, but as long as you have sexually bereft Christian evangelicals pushing absintence and creating rapists among men in the name of "traditional values" who get a free pass and the women's agency, but it is still a sinful, toxic, perverted tyranny that is way too similar to Regency standards of virtuous womanhood.
Like I know this is how it used to work but it’s like they are surprised when girls have done it wrong/ don’t know after there married and I like what did you expect !
This is hilarious but also sad that Violet didn’t prepare her daughters about the marriage bed. She failed at that as a mother. Daphne could’ve had less heartache if she knew what the Duke was doing.
Well if you think about it’s not really Violet’s fault either. She was probably raised like that too since back then women knew nothing about marriage consummation. The only way you learn is if you are lucky enough to have a very loving governess or a mother who isn’t too afraid and awkward to tell you.
@@garlantyrell6368 Yep. My mother didn't know and neither did my grandmother until after the fact. Imagine being raised so strictly that you don't know the basics.
It's a funny scene until you realize that Daphne is just as ignorant as Eloise and also had no idea you could get pregnant without being married. This is some great foreshadowing for what she goes through. It's also a good way to show how their mothers are failing them by actively ensuring that ignorance.
@@Mahi-nw5vh She didn't rape him. She didn't force him to have sex nor did he want to stop the sex. It's not like he wanted her to stop because he changed his mind about having sex, didn't like the sex, or felt coerced into having sex. She forced him to finish inside of her, which is not the same thing as rape. Both of them manipulated each other. He lied to her about not being to able to get her pregnant and deliberately had sex in a way to make sure she never got pregnant. He took advantage of her innocence. That is why he was initially angry, but forgave her.
Well yes there is no harm in not knowing, but there is harm in hooking up after two seconds like in today's world. And no, people were not clueless about intimacy in that time, just read Queen Victoria's diary and what she wrote about Prince Albert
@@НиколайРоманов-л6ю "No harm in not knowing"?? That may be one of the most ignorant things quoted on the Internet. How the 🤬 do you think there isn't harm in not knowing?? I live in the US. There is a vast difference in the areas that have comprehensive sex education and the areas that "teach" abstinence only. Guess which area has MORE pregnancies and STI's?? Hint: It isn't the areas that teach comprehensive sex education. How the 🤬 are you supposed to protect yourself from a thing if you have no understanding of it?? The ONLY reason to keep anyone, but especially women, in the dark about sex is control. That's it. We are going through this foolishness right now in my country. And I sincerely doubt you'd be okay with this crap if you were the one getting your rights stripped away and knowledge being forbidden to you. In this day and age of information, I find you to be disgustingly offensive in such backwards thinking. If you want to wallow in ignorance and stupidity, that's your mistake. But do not get it through your empty skull that such 🤬 isn't harmful to people. It is.
The mother takes a L for this. Later on, Daphne was so angry (and rightfully so) with her mother for not preparing her for the realities of marriage and basic reproductive health
Look Mr. Colin Bridgerton, I lived my whole life being surrounded my cows, calves , goasts and their kids, and yes I knew how they carried their babies but somehow my brain didn't link that with humans. And not until I read the health book in my 9th grade in school, it didn't make sense. Imagine the horror😂. Anyway, if it wasn't for that health book (and i read it myself the teacher obviously didn't talk about it in school because it's apparently not appropriate by societal manners 🙂 I wish they taught us like today's classes do), I also wouldn't have found out how these things happen.
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It still amazes me that in these times, they thought that the best way to avoid young ladies to accidentally lose their virginity or to get pregnant out of wedlock was to make sure that they knew NOTHING of how to avoid these 😓 Like « hey, how to make sure a kid doesn’t get hit by a car ? I know : let’s make sure he knows nothing about crossing a road ! »
First off, the two hardly compare. Teaching kids not to cross the street without looking is called common sense. And second off, contrary to popular belief, girls were never that ignorant about sex at age 17 back then. Girls were never given the talk about their own bodies until after they had their first period. To which after that their mothers or older woman figure would explain how their bodies worked. As for actual sex: they were informed about the birds and the bees but it was kept to a minimum because yes they wanted the girls to remain pure. Overall giving them the basic description of sex but never got explicit. But after they get engaged is when their female adult figures would go in detail in what to expect so the woman wouldn't be completely ignorant on the wedding night. If Eloise has no knowledge about this stuff at 17, not even a hint of it, then the mother failed in her duties.
