Just like Tom Jones' blues
No, that's a strictly Victorian attitude, an age of such hypocrisy that it found it necessary to say "limb" where "leg" would do, and that felt it genteel to cover up the legs of household furniture. Polite language was one of the ways the rising bourgeosie sought to distance themselves socially from the proletariat, and ape the aristocracy, who were usually frolicking in child brothels. The reputation of the Brits for being so "propah" derives mostly from this period. If you read 18th century literature, like Fielding, you find a much more exuberant and lusty approach to life, and I suspect, a lot less perversion. And of course, there was always France...
Didn't you pass through there during your temporal perambulations?