Common male difficulties are concealed by assumptions that desire is crude, insurgent, spontaneous and unproblematic, and are therefore ignored.
Hidden Anxieties
explores this view, examining the letters of thousands of men who wrote to Marie Stopes, author of
Married Love,
seeking help for problems that were otherwise unmentionable.
Hall clarifies the concepts of the 'normal' male which changed considerably between the late Victorian era and the end of World War II. While examining these evolving ideas, Hall shows how men, as well as women, were the victims of a repressive climate in relation to their sexuality.
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