rokket posted at 8:11AM Tue, 20 October 2015 - #4234381

How did we go from pron to slavery?

Puritanical ideas about sexuality; porn as exploitation; the "white slave trade", which no one has mentioned yet. A natural progression.

But let's not blame the Puritans for everything. Long after their revolution in Britain was ended, the Victorians evolved their own peculiar brand of prudishness -- covering the legs of tables and chairs because they were legs. Even saying the names of the body parts was shocking, which is why we often say "white meat" and "dark meat" when referring to the breast and legs of chicken. Victorians made even the Puritans seem sexually free. Interestingly, for the Puritans, it was a matter of Biblical morals. For the Victorians, at least in Europe, much more a matter of manners. And lest we think manners could never be that important, during a time of enormous growth of the middle class, including the rise to great riches for some, there had to be some way to maintain a sense of class distinctions in a culture that was built on social hierarchy. A way to keep the upstart middle class feeling inferior even when they had more money. For the Victorians, manners served that purpose. And even today, in Britain, the word "class" refers to more than just a person's social and economic position -- but also his/her deportment: his or her manners.

Oddly, the Americans banished the idea of class, but kept the prudishness about sexuality -- an attitude that was easily available to everyone equally. LOL.

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