英语听力：探索发现 2014-01-29 America's Sex Pioneers 美国的性爱先锋-3

 And whereas our ** of adore were prohibited, getting busy and private was mandatory¹.

-It was written into the Puritan Bible that a man has duty to God and to his wife was to pleasure her. That was called due benevolence².

-It's also about economy and possession. You know, children were property, and children were laborers³. Sowas not just about making Christians⁴. It's also about economic success.

-Sex within a marriage is so encouraged and the man was under obligation to pleasure his wife so much, so refusing sex to his wife or impotence were grounds for divorce. In fact, you could be excommunicated for not having sex.

-From here and forever, you are banished⁵.

-However, though it was considered inappropriate to have sex outside the marriage, a third of brides actually were pregnant on their wedding day.

-For our young people, which are sexually active, then when it came out as pregnant, and then they would say we were already married, and a sort of reactively to maritalize that premarital sex.

And while most Puritans did not condemn⁶ premarital sex, they did attempt to prevent it.

-The Puritans did create a device called bundling board, because most people live in one room. And there was one large bed they would all sleep in. And so any visitors would be staying in this bed as well. So the bundling board was essentially⁷ like a large cutting board, and it would be placed bewteen the young woman and the young man to block their ability to engage any carnal, sexual experiences. So you can imagine, you have mother and father and then a young man and then there's a board, and then the daughter. However, cutting boards were not very effective. And inhibitting and carnality,they were pretty easy to climb over.

Behind the bundling board, the Puritan population almost doubled, leading one to ponder how all that sex took place in one bed after mom blew out the candle.

1 mandatory   

adj.命令的；强制的；义务的；n.受托者

参考例句：

• It's mandatory to pay taxes.缴税是义务性的。
• There is no mandatory paid annual leave in the U.S.美国没有强制带薪年假。

2 benevolence   

n.慈悲，捐助

参考例句：

• We definitely do not apply a policy of benevolence to the reactionaries.我们对反动派决不施仁政。
• He did it out of pure benevolence. 他做那件事完全出于善意。

3 laborers   

n.体力劳动者，工人( laborer的名词复数 )；（熟练工人的）辅助工

参考例句：

• Laborers were trained to handle 50-ton compactors and giant cranes. 工人们接受操作五十吨压土机和巨型起重机的训练。 来自《现代英汉综合大词典》
• Wage-labour rests exclusively on competition between the laborers. 雇佣劳动完全是建立在工人的自相竞争之上的。 来自英汉非文学 - 共产党宣言

4 Christians   

n.基督教徒( Christian的名词复数 )

参考例句：

• Christians of all denominations attended the conference. 基督教所有教派的人都出席了这次会议。
• His novel about Jesus caused a furore among Christians. 他关于耶稣的小说激起了基督教徒的公愤。

5 banished   

v.放逐，驱逐( banish的过去式和过去分词 )

参考例句：

• He was banished to Australia, where he died five years later. 他被流放到澳大利亚，五年后在那里去世。
• He was banished to an uninhabited island for a year. 他被放逐到一个无人居住的荒岛一年。 来自《简明英汉词典》

6 condemn   

vt.谴责，指责；宣判(罪犯)，判刑

参考例句：

• Some praise him,whereas others condemn him.有些人赞扬他，而有些人谴责他。
• We mustn't condemn him on mere suppositions.我们不可全凭臆测来指责他。

7 essentially   

adv.本质上，实质上，基本上

参考例句：

• Really great men are essentially modest.真正的伟人大都很谦虚。
• She is an essentially selfish person.她本质上是个自私自利的人。