No legend, it happened.
They eventually reversed the decision, but it happened.
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Shakespeare too sexual for Florida’s schools?
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They eventually reversed the decision, but it happened.
Shadow Wolf
Certified People sTabber & Business Owner
It's far worse than that. It's of Girl Scouts who were out learning to do things other than being a domestic servant and baby machine.
Yep!
"My beloved put in his hand by the hole of the door, and my bowels were moved for him." (5:4)
Don't think too long about what it means -- it means what it says!
Shadow Wolf
Certified People sTabber & Business Owner
Those, and Corn Flakes, were invented to prevent masturbation in boys.
Whilst true, R and J always made me feel uneasy. Which I guess you could argue was the point? Teenage stupidity on full display for all to see.
But my unease might be more due to my modern sensibilities regarding marriage. In Australia the legal minimum is 18, with some exceptions made if one party is 16 (there needs to be a very small age gap between the pair though) and if granted by a judge or with parental consent
A 14 year old in such a situation creeps me out by default. I know it still happens, but my immediate reaction is still ewww lol
Subduction Zone
Veteran Member
It actually happened:
Utah district bans Bible in elementary and middle schools 'due to vulgarity or violence'
The Good Book is being treated like a bad book in Utah after a parent frustrated by efforts to ban materials from schools convinced a suburban district that some Bible verses were too vulgar or violent for younger children. And the Book of Mormon could be next. The Davis School District north of...
But not for long:
The original attempt was done to show how their recently installed rules on banning books could backfire.
Viker
Your beloved eccentric Auntie Cristal
So Satanic and feminist! Outrageous!
Ahh. Of course. Gotta make sure boys don’t masturbate and what better way than with the blandest food imaginable lol
Subduction Zone
Veteran Member
I will agree that kids at that age are too young to marry. But they still do have sex (so please provide birth control!!). But in those days life was rather short and early marriages were the norm.
Shadow Wolf
Certified People sTabber & Business Owner
It is not irredeemably filthy. Raunchy, yes, but it's not explicit or anything close to resembling an erotic script. It's a silly story that gets to what peole want to see. It's a juicy, bawdy story filled with characters who make mountains out of mole hills. It would spoil the fun if they had just a shred more of ability to reason and ruin the story if they lived.
I guess they were too stupid to know that girls have at it, too.
Viker
Your beloved eccentric Auntie Cristal
I dunno. Boredom and blandness are like idleness, the Devil's workshop.
Agreed. And to make myself clear, I recognise that “times were different back then” so I find it kind of silly to hold R and J up to modern standards of marriage
I mean I understand reading his plays with a modern lens as a way of analysing it. But outside of that, I don’t really see the point lol
Subduction Zone
Veteran Member
You do not want to read what Kellogg advocated for doing to girls (or boys for that matter) that masturbated. Corn flakes were a kindness.
Subduction Zone
Veteran Member
Oh what the heck:
In Plain Facts, Kellogg suggested anesthesia-free circumcisions for masturbating adolescent boys because “the brief pain attending the operation will have a salutary effect upon the mind, especially if it be connected with the idea of punishment.” And if circumcision wasn’t an option? He recommended parents have their son’s foreskins sewn onto the shaft of their penis with a metal wire so that every erection is met with blinding pain and shame. For girls, he advised parents to apply carbolic acid to their daughter’s clitoris, writing that this method provides an “excellent means of allaying the abnormal excitement.”
melmagazine.com
In Plain Facts, Kellogg suggested anesthesia-free circumcisions for masturbating adolescent boys because “the brief pain attending the operation will have a salutary effect upon the mind, especially if it be connected with the idea of punishment.” And if circumcision wasn’t an option? He recommended parents have their son’s foreskins sewn onto the shaft of their penis with a metal wire so that every erection is met with blinding pain and shame. For girls, he advised parents to apply carbolic acid to their daughter’s clitoris, writing that this method provides an “excellent means of allaying the abnormal excitement.”
The Disturbing True Story of Kellogg’s Anti-Masturbation Cereal
Have you ever wondered who invented cheese? Or big, crusty bread? Seriously: How did anyone know to combine ground-up grains with water and yeast and...
melmagazine.com
"Irredeemably filthy?" Wow, you must be overly priggish. Better stay far, far away from Sonnet 135 -- you might perish from the sexual innuendo in that one.
"Not very good story telling?" It's one of the best told stories in literature. And consider this -- what makes a "good story?" Something that listeners want to hear, that's what! And because the audience is what it's all about, ask yourself why R&J is the second most produced of all 39 plays.
Viker
Your beloved eccentric Auntie Cristal
Yep. Kellogg was a monster.Oh what the heck:
In Plain Facts, Kellogg suggested anesthesia-free circumcisions for masturbating adolescent boys because “the brief pain attending the operation will have a salutary effect upon the mind, especially if it be connected with the idea of punishment.” And if circumcision wasn’t an option? He recommended parents have their son’s foreskins sewn onto the shaft of their penis with a metal wire so that every erection is met with blinding pain and shame. For girls, he advised parents to apply carbolic acid to their daughter’s clitoris, writing that this method provides an “excellent means of allaying the abnormal excitement.”
The Disturbing True Story of Kellogg’s Anti-Masturbation Cereal
Have you ever wondered who invented cheese? Or big, crusty bread? Seriously: How did anyone know to combine ground-up grains with water and yeast and...
Surely that man had a very sick mind, indeed.Oh what the heck:
In Plain Facts, Kellogg suggested anesthesia-free circumcisions for masturbating adolescent boys because “the brief pain attending the operation will have a salutary effect upon the mind, especially if it be connected with the idea of punishment.” And if circumcision wasn’t an option? He recommended parents have their son’s foreskins sewn onto the shaft of their penis with a metal wire so that every erection is met with blinding pain and shame. For girls, he advised parents to apply carbolic acid to their daughter’s clitoris, writing that this method provides an “excellent means of allaying the abnormal excitement.”
The Disturbing True Story of Kellogg’s Anti-Masturbation Cereal
Have you ever wondered who invented cheese? Or big, crusty bread? Seriously: How did anyone know to combine ground-up grains with water and yeast and...
Okay I’ve read classic horror less frightening. Just wtf!!Oh what the heck:
In Plain Facts, Kellogg suggested anesthesia-free circumcisions for masturbating adolescent boys because “the brief pain attending the operation will have a salutary effect upon the mind, especially if it be connected with the idea of punishment.” And if circumcision wasn’t an option? He recommended parents have their son’s foreskins sewn onto the shaft of their penis with a metal wire so that every erection is met with blinding pain and shame. For girls, he advised parents to apply carbolic acid to their daughter’s clitoris, writing that this method provides an “excellent means of allaying the abnormal excitement.”
The Disturbing True Story of Kellogg’s Anti-Masturbation Cereal
Have you ever wondered who invented cheese? Or big, crusty bread? Seriously: How did anyone know to combine ground-up grains with water and yeast and...
Subduction Zone
Veteran Member
No doubt. He even seemed to think that married sex was immoral in some way. He was very proud of the fact that he never had sex with his wife. From the same article:
However, while Kellogg became the preeminent leader in nutrition and health reform during the late 19th century, his proudest and most cherished accomplishment was never having sex with his wife. Though he received daily enemas from a handsome male nurse, he was so adamant that sex of any kind was a vex to physical, emotional and spiritual health that he slept in a separate room from his wife and fostered 42 children to avoid having to consummate his marriage.
The Disturbing True Story of Kellogg’s Anti-Masturbation Cereal
Have you ever wondered who invented cheese? Or big, crusty bread? Seriously: How did anyone know to combine ground-up grains with water and yeast and...
melmagazine.com
A lot of the claims in that article are not hearsay. They are taken from a book that Kellogg wrote called "Plain Facts for the Old and Young"
That link goes to the book itself.