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Regardless of your stance, yes, this is a serious article and has been actively debated for several decades now. And it has also lead to a huge amount of cogni

• classified 4y ago
  America seems to be more backwards on anything sex-related than Victorian England.
  • a-user-you-like 4y ago
    “Backwards” I suppose if all your daughters wanted to be whores you’d be a good chap and send them on their way with a box of biscuits.
  • Der_Einzige 4y ago
    Go read Foucault's "A history of sexuality". He spends the whole world debunking the idea that the victorian's were especially sexually prudes. He spends the majority of the work trying to figure out why modern people are still convinced that the victorian's were uniquely prudish. He thinks this belief is deeply connected to many other strange sexual beliefs. I think Foucault is frequently overrated but at least volume 1 of a history of sexuality is pretty neat.