07-10-2019, 05:07 AM
(07-10-2019, 02:10 AM)taramarie Wrote: Figured this could be a side topic of interest that is in the similar sort of theme to the original topic. I am amused but in disbelief there are literal fossils crawling around the earth who genuinely believe this. It is another form of wishing to control women by making them seem evil. Note he doesn't say male masturbation, but FEMALE masturbation. Why is it that society wishes to control women? For what purpose other than a hard on for domination over the "lesser sex?" Why is it historically men have needed to force their control over women?
Female masturbation can apparently open ‘a portal to hell’
Yes, there is some fossilized behavior and there are fossilized attitudes out there on the subordination of women to men. Such showed itself in the persecution of real and imagined witches. Figure that elderly women going senile or poisoned by rotting grain (especially ergot) were common. They were not going to find themselves any male companionship. They might have sought magical powers because they had no real ones, and that they were were likely to have the affection of cats and to have the one implement (brooms) available. Because the typical broom handle is long, hard, and cylindrical but rounded at its end, 'riding' one might have a masturbatory connotation. Note well that the stereotypical witch was an old hag, an ugly woman past menopause, as opposed to an attractive young woman who might have value to men for bearing children. Ahem. In a world in which superstition and rigid hierarchies prevailed, any women who seemed to have any independence just for being cast-offs were easy prey for religious persecution.
Men were in literal ownership of wives, and thus had exclusive rights to sexual indulgence. Women were compelled to subordinate themselves.
There is an old Danish movie, Haxan (The Witches, 1922) that gets the essence of witchcraft largely right. Part of the "witch" problem is mental illness; part is malnutrition that compels people to eat stale rye bread tainted with ergot (note that LSD, lysergic acid, is a derivative of ergot); part is superstition and male chauvinism rampant in medieval life.
It is still relevant nearly a century later, and quite sympathetic to people who got a bad rap and often the worst treatment possible -- burning at the stake. Witches are obviously far less evil than the brutes who prevailed in medieval Europe.
The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated Communist but instead the people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists -- Hannah Arendt.