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I can’t remember the title but that’s pretty much the same plot as the first english romance novel ever written.

It “makes sense” considering the honor-shame society the story was created for. A pure, pious woman is pitted against a shameful, violent man. The central motif is the radiant woman purifying the shameful man who converts (to Christianity) and courts the woman according to social norms instead of violently raping her. This is framed as a good ending because his shame is removed.

If you value innocence over honor this is completely incomprehensible. The guilt is still there, it was never accounted for.

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SuluBeddu@feddit.it ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

In 2018, Greece repealed article 339 (3), which allowed marriage as a permissible settlement for “seduction” of a child.

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- HertzDentalBar@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
  You break it, you buy it. Children and women are property to alot of people and some governments
  
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  - SuluBeddu@feddit.it ⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    I’ve recently watched a lecture by Graeber about dowry and bride pricing, and yeah I get where these laws come from
    
    But to keep them until 2018 is wild
    
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forkDestroyer@infosec.pub ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
The first English romance novel (I had to look it up): en.wikipedia.org/…/Pamela;_or,_Virtue_Rewarded

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- carbonari_sandwich@piefed.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
  It was not without criticism in its day…for mentioning sex and approving of class mixing.
  
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  - forkDestroyer@infosec.pub ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
    Every war really is a class war?
    
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  - SubArcticTundra@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
    I still find it amusing how much of a taboo sex used to be
    
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    Tonuka@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
    God I love social progress. Looking forward to when I can frown at how puritan the 2000-2030s were
    
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eta@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
It’s called [Pamela] (blog.smu.edu/…/pamela-and-the-early-origins-of-th…)

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