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To: chance33_98
It's all a matter of the pendulum swinging back and forth.We just haven't quite hit bottom...yet.

No,some people have ALWAYS wanted pornography and worse.Some past eras were filled with it;some went far too far in the other direction.

Tiberius Caesar was fond of pornography,as well as being a pedophile.He was laughed at and reviled ( behind his back of course)for both.He was also BRIBED with rare and ancient porn.

Restoration England was one endless porn/lascivious/decadent era.Cromwellian times was the complete opposite of the spectrum.

Victorian England lent it's Queen's name to a time now used, along with "Puritanism" (shades of Oliver Cromwell!)with prudery;wrong in both cases.Some of THE best written exotica/sexually laced books,comes from the late Victorian period.

And,FWIW,the pull back from debauncery and prurient things, actually started when Queen Victoria was a tiny child,at least a full decade prior to ascending the throne,in reaction to lascivious/free for all times.

It's the swing of the pendulum,is all. Winning over hearts and minds,by people, is NOT what changes the culture.It's when it gets so bad, that there is a moral outcry,from just about everyone,that things change.Unfortunately,we just haven't hit bottom yet and it's patently obvious, from some of the posts to this thread,that some will NEVER see the "bottom",no matter HOW low it all gets.

79 posted on 04/24/2004 12:35:30 AM PDT by nopardons
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To: nopardons
Perhaps the arc of the pendulum grows larger with time, sort of like the pangs of birth getting more instense as the time draws near to delivery. Jesus had it right all along.
87 posted on 04/24/2004 12:52:50 AM PDT by chance33_98 (Shall a living man complain? Oh how much fewer are my sufferings than my sins;)
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