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In reply to the discussion: Pic Of The Moment: Virginia Is Not For Lovers [View all]happyslug
(14,779 posts)Sorry, in the US the reports that we do have do NOT have reports of such beds. The idea that such beds were used (and the alternative that the couple were sewed up in sacks) is from England, no such reports from the US. Couples were NOT to have sex, but were expected to talk and sleep together.
Given the housing situation in the US at that time, it was easy to enforce, houses were small, often one room so you could hear the couple. In multi-room houses, every bedroom generally had more then one person assigned to it, thus unless the couple managed to get the room with the parent's bed in it, they really was no privacy for anything more then sleeping side by side and talking to each other.
In simple terms, hard to have sex with everyone is watching.