Homosocial
I am interested in the fact of female homosocial bonding in the Victorian era, in which well-to-do women would bond within benvolent organizations and get a kind of intimacy satisfaction from such proximity. More than one would think, women of this class did not marry (check out the statistics in 1830's American cities for example). During whole days of charitable work at the orphanage or working on the minutes of the last meeting, women could seek out moments and hours of sexual or psudo-sexual satisfaction they would never seek with men in formal social situations like a work place.
