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Adults have the possibility of fulfilling their sex drives in ways that are considered healthy and responsible. Obviously it would be our preference to delay p

Adults have the possibility of fulfilling their sex drives in ways that are considered healthy and responsible. Obviously it would be our preference to delay puberty until after graduate school, but given that we can't, what is it that we'd prefer teenagers do instead?

082349872349872 6y ago
Stefan Zweig, in the Eros Matutinus chapter of The World of Yesterday https://ia601609.us.archive.org/21/items/in.ernet.dli.2015.176552/2015.176552.The-World-Of-Yesterday_text.pdf https://ia601609.us.archive.org/21/items/in.ernet.dli.2015.1... discusses how porn and prostitutes were peddled in the latter days of the Austro-Hungarian Empire (A.E.I.O.U.). He even speaks of delaying puberty until after graduate school: p.71 "Here, too, an inner dishonesty disclosed itself, for the middle-class calendar in no way agreed with that of Nature. As far as society was concerned, a young man did not reach manhood until he had secured a “social position” for himself—that is, hardly before his twenty-fifth or twenty-sixth year. And so there was an artificial interval of six, eight, or ten years between actual manhood and manhood as society accepted it ; and in this interval the young man had to take care of his own “affairs” or adventures."
- lighttower 6y ago
  The book you quoted, The World of Yesterday, is fantastic. Thank you! What a fantastic read. I am astounded how much the world of the past, as it is described in storybooks, was made-up, and the truth was grim and desperate.
  - 082349872349872 6y ago
    You're very welcome. Another recent Zweig reference: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23777984 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23777984 (and, for the pre-Great War predecessors of OnlyFans, see p.122 "...it held no less than twenty-seven pictures of famous dancers and actresses in extreme décolleté, as well as three or four nude photographs..." or p.67 "“Art” and nude photographs in particular were offered to half-grown boys for sale under the table by peddlers in every cafe.")
  - 082349872349872 6y ago
    The Nazis thought so highly of Zweig's work that "all works" of his were on the 1938 "list of damaging and unwanted writing." https://sammlungen.ulb.uni-muenster.de/hd/periodical/pageview/2540067 https://sammlungen.ulb.uni-muenster.de/hd/periodical/pagevie... for even more damaging and unwanted writing: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23611730 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23611730

082349872349872 6y ago

Stefan Zweig, in the Eros Matutinus chapter of The World of Yesterday https://ia601609.us.archive.org/21/items/in.ernet.dli.2015.176552/2015.176552.The-World-Of-Yesterday_text.pdf https://ia601609.us.archive.org/21/items/in.ernet.dli.2015.1... discusses how porn and prostitutes were peddled in the latter days of the Austro-Hungarian Empire (A.E.I.O.U.). He even speaks of delaying puberty until after graduate school: p.71 "Here, too, an inner dishonesty disclosed itself, for the middle-class calendar in no way agreed with that of Nature. As far as society was concerned, a young man did not reach manhood until he had secured a “social position” for himself—that is, hardly before his twenty-fifth or twenty-sixth year. And so there was an artificial interval of six, eight, or ten years between actual manhood and manhood as society accepted it ; and in this interval the young man had to take care of his own “affairs” or adventures."

lighttower 6y ago
The book you quoted, The World of Yesterday, is fantastic. Thank you! What a fantastic read. I am astounded how much the world of the past, as it is described in storybooks, was made-up, and the truth was grim and desperate.
- 082349872349872 6y ago
  You're very welcome. Another recent Zweig reference: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23777984 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23777984 (and, for the pre-Great War predecessors of OnlyFans, see p.122 "...it held no less than twenty-seven pictures of famous dancers and actresses in extreme décolleté, as well as three or four nude photographs..." or p.67 "“Art” and nude photographs in particular were offered to half-grown boys for sale under the table by peddlers in every cafe.")
- 082349872349872 6y ago
  The Nazis thought so highly of Zweig's work that "all works" of his were on the 1938 "list of damaging and unwanted writing." https://sammlungen.ulb.uni-muenster.de/hd/periodical/pageview/2540067 https://sammlungen.ulb.uni-muenster.de/hd/periodical/pagevie... for even more damaging and unwanted writing: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23611730 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23611730