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The Independent - London | May 19, 2007| | Copyright

Even by the sexually modest standards of Victorian society, John Ruskin's marriage to Effie Gray was alarmingly chaste.

Throughout the couple's six-year relationship, before she found happiness in the arms of Ruskin's protege John Millais, the art critic invented a bewildering array of excuses to avoid consummating their union.

First he claimed that he objected on religious grounds, then that he would not risk having children. Finally, he insisted sex would defile his wife's much admired beauty.

In the publicity surrounding Tate Britain's new Millais exhibition, the life and turbulent times ...

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