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You can leave your hat on: Scholar says Puritans were sexy

BOSTON (AP) — "Fifty Shades of Grey," Puritan edition? A leading Puritan scholar says the famously strait-laced 17th-century sectarians who helped settle America weren't nearly as priggish as you might think. Francis Bremer, of Pennsylvania's Millersville University, says letters and sermons penned by Puritan forefathers evoke more passion than prudishness. Bremer is presenting his latest research next week at Boston's Old South Meeting House. He points to a love letter that colonial governor John Winthrop wrote in 1618 to his wife as an example of Puritan passion. In the letter, Winthrop speaks of "being filled with the joy of thy love, and wanting opportunity of more familiar connection with thee, which my heart fervently desires."