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In Western Europe in the 1600s, being a virgin didn't make you a loser in most people's eyes like it does now. Newton had long friendships with other leading i
by hollerith 1y ago
In Western Europe in the 1600s, being a virgin didn't make you a loser in most people's eyes like it does now.
Newton had long friendships with other leading intellectual figures (Edmund Halley, John Locke, mathematician David Gregory).
- dyauspitr 1y agoNever being married did however.
- hollerith 1y agoThere are essentially no married virgins, i.e., essentially all the virgins are unmarried, so it seems inconsistent to consider the unmarried as losers but not the virgins.
- lelanthran 1y ago> There are essentially no married virgins, Which is something I point out to JWs rude enough to interrupt my Sunday breakfast. Which of the following scenarios present as most likely: 1. A married couple, living together as a married couple, had never had sex, or 2. They had sex
- ksenzee 1y agoIt literally did not. Celibacy was much more common (or at least commonly aspired to) and was considered virtuous.
- dyauspitr 1y agoOnly in prescribed folds. The average unmarried person was a relative outcast. Lifelong singleness was exceedingly rare. It went as far as having legal ramifications like not being able to own property and being unable to hold certain offices.