Nothing like art imitating life to show things haven't changed a bit. Spring Awakening (2006 musical), which won 8 Tony Awards, is based on the 1891 play of the same name. The story is about awakening sexuality. The conflict comes via parents too afraid and embarrassed to address the issue, along with a very puritanical Lutheran church and gender-separated school unwilling to broach the subject.
We had a national awakening of sorts in the 1960s and have found our society in an almost constant backslide since Newt Gingrich and his "Moral Majority" bullshit of the mid-1990s. Let's not forget the threats of Blogger a few years ago, or that folks have, as recently as Dec 2018, managed to force Tumblr to begin routing out all "adult content."
As if an erection, and sexual activity/release is offensive.
And not a natural occurring thing.
It truly is up to the current generation to stop the merry-go-round. It's almost like the cycle of abuse; at some point it is intentionally stopped by those who are determined not to repeat the wrongs they've suffered.
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love your wisdom!
And I understand things are done yet. On line sites are getting even more pressure to be more "clean" The only thing I can guess, is there is a lot of people out there who have never seen a person naked, don't have sex, or masturbate.This isn't 1810 is it???
Have a good weekend!!!!
Fantastic as always! Images and your sharing! Bit cooler here this morning! Bad night!
The adult's antonyms are:
baby, child, adolescent, uncompleted, infantile, young, minor, little, childish, senile, old man.
Therefore, when Tumblr rejects all the "adult contents", we understand what they want to find on their blogs.
In fact, they doesn't suppress the posts having an adult content: they say that they put them in private so as them to be viewable only by the owner of the blog.
LOL, even as regards those of blogs having be deleted! Who can top that?
Have a great weekend, my darlings Jean and Pat. Hugs and bisous.
This Blog is a good way to start. After a few years you suddenly realize how much you’ve learned along the way, thanks Pat.
Hugs and bisous!
The world seems to be going backwards.
Moral Majority was Falwell in the 80s. President Clingrich returning us to the Gilded Age was over a decade later.
Also, on the 90s, it's not how you might think. That was still the era when if you were LGBT, the country was basically the Castro, West Hollywood, Greenwich Village, and a whole lot o' Alabama. Where I grew up, we were more enlightened: Tops were acceptable, sucking cock made you a lot of friends for life (or until we all enlisted at which time I've never seen you in my life, thank you so much Bill Clinton for THAT policy, and DOMA, and...), and I think most of us had jerked off with another guy once (though again, the military doesn't need to know this).
But on masturbation, it was weird. I was ejaculating at 9, having orgasms even before that, so definitely pre-internet porn boom (I was born in 1983.) but I think if you said you didn't masturbate, most of us would laugh and say "Yeah, nor does any guy. I was just not jerking with Tom, Matt, and John last Saturday night. Oh, you're serious?" and have this "Who doesn't masturbate?" look.
Bottoms, however, were seen as, I think most of us thought bottoms were transgender. Where our (kinda problematic when I think about it, but more enlightened than most teens at the time) ideas about masculinity and this blog intersect are:
Underwear: Boxers if anything. Briefs are for babies.
Nudity: In bed, sure, unless it's cold. (Pajamas are for ladies and little kids.) Swimming, kind of a compromise. Basically, at a swimming hole in the middle of nowhere, you wear nothing. Anywhere else, trunks. (I missed nude swimming at the YMCA by several decades.)
Masturbation: Every guy does it. Not doing it was seen as childish or kind of unmanly? Jizz has to escape somehow.
Sex: Men are always eager. This is where the difference between tops and bottoms comes in, and why gay guys were popular. This also means a woman can't be a rapist? (And since my first time was with a babysitter when I was 7, yeah.) But it wasn't all a libertine paradise. Women in porn were assumed to be kidnapped and trafficked.
Good one bro, yes,yes. Time to change, thing's.
@ Anon - Right you are! It was Gingrich who brought us the "Contract With America." Neither was good for the LGBT community.
Oh, yes, women can be rapists. A woman's vagina will lubricate even under rape conditions, and a man's cock will respond to stimulation under rape conditions. Rape simply means a person was not a willing participant.
I love that you've joined the conversation! Hope you continue.
You notice I called them Clingrich, right? They turned our economy into a giant Ponzi scheme.
Particularly embarrassing are the #NeverTrump Republicans. They voted for Bush, they voted for Dole, they voted for every Republican, but now they're willing to vote for a Democrat on their terms: "I'd like to stay in your place, but that painting? Tacky, gotta go. Oh, you have a dog? I'm more of a cat person. Really? Ready Player One? Of all the books to put on your coffee table...Oh, the rest are fine, even Twilight, but Ready Player One?"
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