• aeronmelon@lemm.ee
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    11 months ago

    Back in the good ol’ days where you were committed to a mental institution if found masterbating.

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        11 months ago

        I was just listening to the recent Behind the Bastards episodes on the Holy Roller cult from Oregon in 1900 and those motherfuckers were having women committed for refusing to wear a hat/cover their hair.

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          11 months ago

          Another wild ride from the good reverend doctor. These sex cults are just weird yet still so predictable. Outside of the pet and potential toddler burning.

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      11 months ago

      Pretty sure in the 1700’s if they though you were cuckoo, they just strung you up from a tree

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        11 months ago

        Probably that, too.

        The thing is about 20 years ago I toured a preserved colonial town in New England (I forget the name, it was in Virginia) and there was a book on display which was an inpatient log for a mental ward. And some of the entries’ reason for admission was “masterbation”.

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          11 months ago

          By the way, New England is specifically the northeast states of Vermont, New Hampshire, Maine, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and Rhode Island! Virginia was one of the English colonies but isn’t part of New England.

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            11 months ago

            Good question, not sure. I don’t even remember what was nearby.

            looks at some pictures

            Could be, but then all English towns looked the same back then. I don’t remember any buildings quite that big though.

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        Depends. If you were crazy and they thought you were harmful, then probably yes. They also had sanitariums.

        It was also not densely populated. It was pretty easy to simply banish someone and they would just fuck off to be on their own.