Male Privilege In Effect

[assimbya]

From the Marquis de Sade's Justine"The man endowed with uncommon tastes is sick; if you prefer, he is like a woman subject to hysterical vapors. Has the idea to punish such a person ever occurred to us? Let us be equally fair when dealing with the man whose caprices startle us; perfectly like unto the ill woman suffering from vapors, he is

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[hsavinien]

Yeah, women in those situations were treated as socially invisible, so there situations weren't really considered very much. The Magdalen Houses, for example... *winces*

A woman with sexual desires of any sort was a slut/whore or insane.