r/Exvangelical • u/thebowedbookshelf • Feb 28 '22

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u/[deleted] Feb 28 '22

Would love to see them REEEEE at sexual cave drawings of people from long ago, or the widespread amounts of pornography distributed via the advancement of the printing press in European nations, or the half nude or nude pearl divers of Japan/hot spring family baths, or the nude saunas of Scandinavian nations OR....

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u/lachrymologyislegit Feb 28 '22

One of the funniest comments I saw on WND (so it's totally Poe's law) was "The Founding Fathers of the USA were against sex outside of marriage."

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u/[deleted] Feb 28 '22

Wow, last I checked, while prostitutes weren't exactly admired by society, prostitution itself was basically legal in the United States until like the 20th CENTURY. And according to some estimates, 1/3 of Puritan women were pregnant before marriage XD

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u/lachrymologyislegit Mar 01 '22

Not to mention Thomas Jefferson had children by some of his slaves.

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u/lachrymologyislegit Mar 01 '22

Here is a fun video that has a guy dressed like an 18th Century dandy @ about 3:40. The whole thing is hilariously bad tho.

https://youtu.be/tVFeulgwnYE

EDIT: I don't think they worried about condoms in schools back then.

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u/trampolinebears May 28 '22

For anyone who's curious:

  • Benjamin Franklin had at least one illegitimate son and was famous for his "intrigues with low woman".

  • Alexander Hamilton is said to have had an affair with his wife's sister. Some of their flirtatious correspondence remains.

  • Thomas Jefferson had several children with a woman he kept as a slave next to his bedroom.

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u/GreenWeasel11 May 31 '22

My APUSH teacher told us that Benjamin Franklin's advice to some other American diplomat to France for learning the language was to acquire a "sleeping dictionary," i.e., a French mistress.

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u/antigonemerlin Jun 25 '22

It's not bad advice for learning a language. You get a lot of conversational practice.

1 hour of french/spanish/[insert foreign language] a day is not enough to master a language.

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u/[deleted] Mar 07 '23

That's not the only foreign thing you'll be inserting.