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Whenever people suggest that 21st-century content (namely that distributed through TV, but also in books) is somehow uniquely lascivious, I know they have not r
by jack6e 9y ago
Whenever people suggest that 21st-century content (namely that distributed through TV, but also in books) is somehow uniquely lascivious, I know they have not read any popular late-medieval or Renaissance literature. Anyone who has read Boccaccio's Decameron or even parts of Chaucer's Canterbury Tales, such as the Miller's Tale, is purged of any imagined celibate medieval period.
Sex is not new, which means humans have been doing it (!), thinking about it, and talking/writing about it for a long time.
- rhombocombus 9y agoA quick walk through Pompeii and Herculaneum will disabuse anyone of the notion that ancient people were any less sexually motivated than modern people. We're still the same animals we were back then.
- drewblaisdell 9y ago> A quick walk through Pompeii and Herculaneum will disabuse anyone of the notion that ancient people were any less sexually motivated than modern people. The ancient pagans have long been thought of as lascivious - that is still consistent with the "celibate Middle Ages" narrative.
- HarryHirsch 9y agoThe Carmina Burana are from the Middle Ages. They are full of life and not celibate at all.
- dredmorbius 9y agoThe musical work dates from the 1930s, though yes, it is based on poems and texts, by the same name, from ~1000 - 1100 AD. And quite bawdy / visceral.
- tclancy 9y agoI remember having to suppress a giggle in high school when I ran into "The Vine"[0] in the Norton Anthology of Poetry. It was nice to know people were still the same 400 years earlier. [0] https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/50721/the-vine https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/50721/the-vine
- craftyguy 9y ago> Sex is not new, which means humans have been doing it (!), thinking about it, and talking/writing about it for a long time. Right. Else none of us would be here.
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