“Ukraine’s intelligence service says it thwarted a Russian plot to blackmail a local teenage girl into blowing up a police building by threatening to make public intimate pictures on her phone.”

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    11 days ago

    wouldn’t be a problem if humanity hadn’t forced 1200 years of sexual oppression that makes you feel like your body is a filthy thing that shouldn’t be shared or touched.

    then again, look at all the cool kinks we have now because people are forced into insanely creative ways to get their rocks off.

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      10 days ago

      Eh, it was more complicated even in Christendom before 1800 or so. And conversely, lots of other cultures had sexual taboos, even very rigid ones. The Aztecs liked to impale homosexuals, for example.

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      10 days ago

      When speaking historically, term “western” doesn’t really work that well. I genuinely can’t tell if you meant colonial Europe, England or US

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        11 days ago

        uhm…I’m absolutely certain the Puritans came from 16th century England.

        I suppose your statement is technically correct but I’d argue that you actually meant “American west”, not “western world”.