The first English romance novel (I had to look it up): en.wikipedia.org/…/Pamela;_or,_Virtue_Rewarded
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Tonuka@feddit.org 2 months ago
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.
forkDestroyer@infosec.pub 2 months ago
carbonari_sandwich@piefed.social 2 months ago
It was not without criticism in its day…for mentioning sex and approving of class mixing.
forkDestroyer@infosec.pub 2 months ago
Every war really is a class war?
SubArcticTundra@lemmy.ml 2 months ago
I still find it amusing how much of a taboo sex used to be
Tonuka@feddit.org 2 months ago
God I love social progress. Looking forward to when I can frown at how puritan the 2000-2030s were
eta@feddit.org 2 months ago
It’s called [Pamela] (blog.smu.edu/…/pamela-and-the-early-origins-of-th…)
SuluBeddu@feddit.it 2 months ago
🌋🤯
HertzDentalBar@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 months ago
You break it, you buy it. Children and women are property to alot of people and some governments
SuluBeddu@feddit.it 2 months 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
CanadianCarl@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
Turkey’s rape-marriage law was repealed in 2005, as part of efforts to join the European Union. In November 2016, a government plan to reinstate the law and exonerate around 3,000 rapists by having them marry their victims was cancelled due to mass protests.