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[โ€“] Tonuka@feddit.org 71 points 21 hours ago* (last edited 21 hours ago) (3 children)

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.

Edit: Oh, and Marry-your-rapist-laws were and are still more common than you might know. Even if countries that don't have one, individual courts may still decide that way.

[โ€“] SuluBeddu@feddit.it 28 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

In 2018, Greece repealed article 339 (3), which allowed marriage as a permissible settlement for "seduction" of a child.

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[โ€“] HertzDentalBar@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

You break it, you buy it. Children and women are property to alot of people and some governments

[โ€“] SuluBeddu@feddit.it 5 points 12 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

[โ€“] forkDestroyer@infosec.pub 25 points 21 hours ago (1 children)
[โ€“] carbonari_sandwich@piefed.social 16 points 18 hours ago (2 children)

It was not without criticism in its day...for mentioning sex and approving of class mixing.

[โ€“] forkDestroyer@infosec.pub 5 points 18 hours ago

Every war really is a class war?

[โ€“] SubArcticTundra@lemmy.ml 3 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

I still find it amusing how much of a taboo sex used to be

[โ€“] Tonuka@feddit.org 5 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

God I love social progress. Looking forward to when I can frown at how puritan the 2000-2030s were

[โ€“] DudleyMason@lemmy.ml 2 points 11 hours ago

We're going backwards. If Gen Alpha pushes social norms around sex backwards at the same rate Gen Z has, then kids in High School in 2060 will be getting detention for their slutty capris showing off their wicked ankles. If the Genzers don't manage to bring back Scarlet Letters first.