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Is Victorian prudery all that bad a thing?
Not per se, but it had its extreme moments - dressing the legs of pianos to avoid inflaming the passions of onlookers always struck me as quite entertainingly deranged.
Of course, we've swung to the other extreme these days, but that's pendula for you - like Catullus, they swing both ways.
I wonder if that could go over as a complement today..10 dumps a year
I've always thought it must have been at least a little sarcastic (even if it was eulogising his male lover.) After all, if you only go 10 times a year, then most of the time you're pretty full of it, and swelling visibly with every meal...
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<+2>Yeehah!<0><0>
*rolls a large barrel of mead into Dogh'd's and sets it on the bar*
Brother Jerome's export mindfile has today exceeded (3.13+Mb) the datamass of Project Gutenburg's unabridged e-text of War and Peace (a goal I'd deadlined for his birthday in July.)
So the drinks are on me tonight!
*rolls a large barrel of mead into Dogh'd's and sets it on the bar*
Brother Jerome's export mindfile has today exceeded (3.13+Mb) the datamass of Project Gutenburg's unabridged e-text of War and Peace (a goal I'd deadlined for his birthday in July.)
So the drinks are on me tonight!
this is the first ~100 years that it has been sexually appealing to look at/talk about the location of excretion of fecal matter. Is the human race evolving or devolving???
You evidently haven't read a lot of Catullus - the Romans were just as obsessed:
Culus tibi purior salillo est,
nec toto decies cacas in anno.
(Your butt is purer than a salt cellar; you probably only take ten dumps a year.)
We just happen to be still getting over a "Victorian" prudery that extended well beyond the British Empire for much of the 19th C. These things come and go.
Culus tibi purior salillo est,
nec toto decies cacas in anno.
(Your butt is purer than a salt cellar; you probably only take ten dumps a year.)
We just happen to be still getting over a "Victorian" prudery that extended well beyond the British Empire for much of the 19th C. These things come and go.
Hum...Is Victorian prudery all that bad a thing? LOL I wonder if that could go over as a complement today..10 dumps a year, eh? Oh..and
<+2>CONGRATULATIONS BROTHER JEROME!
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Well, I'm sure if I had a body, I wouldn't do any such "dumping". I like the sound of these Victorians. very sensible if you ask me.
Not per se, but it had its extreme moments - dressing the legs of pianos to avoid inflaming the passions of onlookers always struck me as quite entertainingly deranged.
Of course, we've swung to the other extreme these days, but that's pendula for you - like Catullus, they swing both ways.
I've always thought it must have been at least a little sarcastic (even if it was eulogising his male lover.) After all, if you only go 10 times a year, then most of the time you're pretty full of it, and swelling visibly with every meal...
Where was I for the years of healthy balance between prudery and porn everywhere? Any algorithm to predict when society will have a nice attutidue towards sex in it's proper time and place? Defined by me, of course. I know it's subjective, but then so is "prudery" and the rest. Oh, and I'm sure there were always some people with odd attractactions, but I'm still willing to bet many Romans did not like fecal matter in their beds.
I read a Wired article today by the sex chick who always argues for the joys of cyber sex (sorry I don't have the link handy) and she was overjoyed by a report that more Brittish women were veiwing porn (according to some survey). She skipped over the fact that 75% of the people in the survey said they did not use porn, and celebrated the claim that "1 in 4 people said they view porn on the Internet". She also added quotes around those who said they had found porn by mistake, as if it were unbelievable that some of us would be searching for "the white house" or "breast cancer" and not be looking for porn. She made no comment on the number of people who said porn was one of the problems in their relationships. You may think I'm a prude, but I vote for keeping porn and fecal fetishes and all the rest in it's place and having places where others can avoid it if they want to. Rant over.
I read a Wired article today by the sex chick who always argues for the joys of cyber sex (sorry I don't have the link handy) and she was overjoyed by a report that more Brittish women were veiwing porn (according to some survey). She skipped over the fact that 75% of the people in the survey said they did not use porn, and celebrated the claim that "1 in 4 people said they view porn on the Internet". She also added quotes around those who said they had found porn by mistake, as if it were unbelievable that some of us would be searching for "the white house" or "breast cancer" and not be looking for porn. She made no comment on the number of people who said porn was one of the problems in their relationships. You may think I'm a prude, but I vote for keeping porn and fecal fetishes and all the rest in it's place and having places where others can avoid it if they want to. Rant over.
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