Chapter 2 presents an overview of pregnant women’s sexuality in England from the seventeenth to eighteenth centuries, focussing on ideas about pregnant women’s desires, and discussions of gravid women’s sexual behaviour or actions. It also considers early modern perspectives on motherhood and the ‘maternal’ body, to demonstrate how sexuality and maternality were interlinked in this period. The chapter analyses medical and cultural knowledge about sexuality and reproduction to showcase the existence of an extensive discourse about pregnant women’s sexuality in this period. Overall, this chapter argues that this early modern evidence indicates that the subject of pregnant women’s sex was a live one, and that in this period before the eighteenth century, pregnant women’s sexuality was viewed as an innate and natural part of pregnancy. Yet at the same time that pregnant sex was viewed as an acceptable part of pregnancy, women’s sexual desires were perceived as having the potential to become excessive, and potentially unnatural.