March 8th, 2014 -- by Bacchus
Shifting Sexual Attitudes
Here’s a blog post about a TED talk that offers a quick overview of five different societies that underwent radical shifts in their attitudes about sexuality during the twentieth century. What’s striking to me is how rapid these shifts are when they happen, and how they can happen after hundreds of years of social stagnation on sexual matters:
A different kind of sex change: See how quickly a society can shift its sexual attitudes
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Pretty much all of these examples are post-Ww1. Maybe it was a slightly slower global revolution they were reacting to. I would like to hear of changes from other centuries. If we font see it, maybe the big change isn’t in sex but mass communications.
What about the changes in Africa in recent years, where the local elders in at least one large area decided that a woman going to marriage as a virgin Wasn’t a bad thing, banned the ‘de-virginisers’ (who were often cesspools of STDs), and changed their own culture and lifestyles for the better?