[Fresh Wind]

“all Army training films”

Even this classic?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OxNrmf-VoSs

[nathanbedford]

LOL

That is exactly what I had in mind.

But you know, the mood of that 1941 film is not so irrational if one considers that penicillin is only just coming into general use. As a matter of fact a few years later it would save my life from rheumatic fever. Of course, there was no pill either so sex was a much more serious business.

I've always been intrigued how the upper classes of the Victorian era simply ignored the physical and medical implications of sex before the pill and before penicillin. Winston Churchill's father for example, is supposed to have died from syphilis and his mother was a notorious Sadie Hawkins, even participating in a relationship with the Prince of Wales. It seems that only the middle classes took the realities and dangers to a heart, at least as compared with the classes which bracketed them.

[nathanbedford]

LOL

That is exactly what I had in mind.

But you know, the mood of that 1941 film is not so irrational if one considers that penicillin is only just coming into general use. As a matter of fact a few years later it would save my life from rheumatic fever. Of course, there was no pill either so sex was a much more serious business.

I've always been intrigued how the upper classes of the Victorian era simply ignored the physical and medical implications of sex before the pill and before penicillin. Winston Churchill's father for example, is supposed to have died from syphilis and his mother was a notorious Sadie Hawkins, even participating in a relationship with the Prince of Wales. It seems that only the middle classes took the realities and dangers to a heart, at least as compared with the classes which bracketed them.