Yes, the Victorian protestants covered the legs of their furniture least they become aroused.
I believe Bertrand Russel summed up the Victorian mindset thusly:
"The essence of nice people is that they hate life as manifested in tendencies to co-operation, and in the boisterousness of children, and above all in sex, with the thought of which they are obsessed. In a word, nice people are those who have nasty minds".
@Lulz4l1f3 Bertrand Russel is an amazing figure. Somewhere on YouTube there’s a video of him being interviewed and given his clarity of thought and the breadth of his life - predating WWI - his observations are fascinating and a depressing. As a species and array of cultures we could be in such a better state of being.