Divide the following rambling paragraph into more than one paragraph.?
The Victorian Age has long been associated with a harsh, repressive, and contradictory sexual puritanism, a puritanism which, allied with moral hypocrisy, marched arm in arm with a flourishing pornography. It was an age when the authoritarian paterfamilias presided over the institutionalisation of the double standard, while the purity of the pedastalised mother and wife depended on the degradation of the fallen woman, and when sex was publicly, indeed ostentatiously denied, only to flourish in the fertile undergrowth. Yet simultaneously and apparently paradoxically, the nineteenth century saw the debate about sexuality explode. Far from the age experiencing a regime of silence and total suppression, sex became a major issue in Victorian discourse and political practice. It pervaded the social consciousness, from the widespread statistically-based discussions of the birth rate, death rate, life expectancy, and fe
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