(6:32am on a Sunday morning? I hope you were still up from a wonderful late night, rather than up that early to get up to Lowell for work or something.)
That’s a good point, but the particular kind of “civilization” (if we want to call it that, which I don’t) I was asking about was the kind of “civilization” that lets you impose your values on your neighbours, the Roman Empire kind, because I’m curious why puritanical sexual mores spread so much. (On the other hand, the native Americans weren’t conquered because of their sexual mores, but because of European disease and European military and economic power. Of course, alongside the military conquest, there was also the religious conquest at the hands of missionaries.)
Do you happen to know anything about pre-contact Mayan and Aztec sexual ideology? (I know nothing at all about it.)
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Date: 2003-07-27 10:42 (UTC)(6:32am on a Sunday morning? I hope you were still up from a wonderful late night, rather than up that early to get up to Lowell for work or something.)
That’s a good point, but the particular kind of “civilization” (if we want to call it that, which I don’t) I was asking about was the kind of “civilization” that lets you impose your values on your neighbours, the Roman Empire kind, because I’m curious why puritanical sexual mores spread so much. (On the other hand, the native Americans weren’t conquered because of their sexual mores, but because of European disease and European military and economic power. Of course, alongside the military conquest, there was also the religious conquest at the hands of missionaries.)
Do you happen to know anything about pre-contact Mayan and Aztec sexual ideology? (I know nothing at all about it.)