• aeronmelon@lemm.ee
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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.