It's more complicated than that. Victorian morality was also about (for example) discouraging child prostitution, of which Victorian society had quite a lot. Mi

It's more complicated than that. Victorian morality was also about (for example) discouraging child prostitution, of which Victorian society had quite a lot. Middle-class moralizers eventually morphed into social reformers when they discovered it was hard to be a good person in tough social conditions. And so on. The good and bad are not very easy to disentangle.