Which of the following factors has played the major role in keeping U.S. society conservative about sexuality?

A. The men in the Victorian age who were expected to be sexually submissive and to control their innate "sex drives"
B. The catholic population of the U.S that encouraged the followers to inculcate sexual chauvinism
C. The sex-negative ideas that the majority of people in the American society were exposed to given their adherence polytheistic religions
D. The spread of Hinduism, a polytheistic religion in the greater part of the world during the nineteenth century
E. The popularity of the morally upright and socially strict beliefs and practices of Puritanism


Answer: E

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