text: were the victorians really morally superior to us today?   humans have been the same over all time.  what changes is technology, information, and society.  society is the big one.  all things are relative.  so people, essentially, are biologically very similar throughout history...and morals are social constructs that change with the times.  the victorians were, in my opinion, basically just more reserved than us.  at least publicly.  think about catholic school kids for a minute, or drinking ages here versus in europe...sometimes being denied access to things makes the masses crazier.  by that reasoning, the victorians were crazy.