Lucas88 wrote: ↑April 28th, 2022, 7:42 am
Outcast9428 wrote: ↑April 28th, 2022, 12:22 am
I get so sick of people saying America is "puritanical." I swear, have you people been living under a rock these past 7 years?
The Anglosphere does have a puritanical undercurrent. It is a remnant from the strict Protestantism which once characterized the region and paradoxically coexists with the widespread debauchery of modern liberal society.
The Anglosphere really is a bizarre place. On TV and everywhere else you'll see the sexualization of everything (often to an extreme degree) but at the same time Anglophone society by and large still has many hang-ups with regard to sexuality which creates a certain awkwardness and makes it difficult for most ordinary guys to get laid. For example, flirting with women and expressing sexual desire for them is taboo. Ordinary guys who do this are routinely shamed as "creeps" and "pervs" whose needs are to be considered invalid and who are expected to remain unsexual beings. Even Anglophone men have bought into this same way of thinking. The bulk of them too have a problem with prostitution (because it's either "disgusting" or for "losers") and thereby don't even recognize the validity of the only channel of sexual release for many sexually challenged men. In the Anglosphere it is made clear that sex is only for the worthy, successful, desirable men while the needs of ordinary guys are negligible.
Latin cultures such as Southern Europe and Latin America are nowhere near as bad. In those countries sexuality is simply seen as another normal aspect of life and the many hang-ups observable in the Anglosphere are mostly absent. Flirtation and the expression of sexual interest towards women are commonplace and not taboo. With the exception of a small number of Catholic fanatics most people recognize that sexuality is a natural need for everybody and so there isn't any widespread cruel opposition to the sexuality of men of lower status or movement to create a sexually disenfranchised class of people. That is just a phenomenon of the sick, perverse, sadistic Anglosphere. With regard to prostitution, it is accessible almost everywhere, affordable, barely demonized at all and socially acceptable. Mediterranean and Latin American men have no problem with hiring a prostitute and routinely do so in order to fulfill their sexual needs. There's no shame associated with it. Latin people, untainted by Northern European/Anglo puritanism, have a more reasonable attitude towards sexuality.
How then do I reconcile my assertion that Anglophone society is puritanical with the evident widespread debauchery of modern liberal society? It's simple. Puritanism was always unnatural, a total dud. Even in the most outwardly puritanical societies with all of their prudishness many people still slept around, had illicit affairs and engaged in all kinds of sexual promiscuity. Even faggotry was practiced behind closed doors. The only difference was that all of this was done in secret and behind a mask of hypocrisy. So even in the Anglosphere's puritanical societies of today the same debauchery continues albeit with more visibility and all of the same sexual hang-ups continue to exist likewise. This is why puritanism is and always has been so laughable: it is wholly impractical since human beings are naturally sexual creatures with strong sexual needs which are impossible to repress yet people in puritanical societies on the surface give lip surface to a false ideal which only serves to poison and make awkward human sexual behavior.
Many of us who have lived in non-Anglophone countries see the difference. That's why many say that the Anglosphere is puritanical despite its outward permissiveness.
If you would like to understand why many identify a puritanical strain within Anglophone society I recommend that you check out Rookh Kshatriya's Anglo-Bitch Thesis:
http://kshatriya-anglobitch.blogspot.com/
You are resting your assumption on the premise that puritans inherently dislike sex which is a liberal myth. Puritans and most traditionalists love sex, within marriage that is. Sex was considered essential to Puritan marriages, to the point where refusing to have sex with your spouse was grounds for excommunication. Husbands and wives were seen as having a duty to sexually satisfy one another and fulfill all of their spouse's needs.
https://books.google.com.au/books?id=Ez ... ty&f=false
Traditionalists have never argued against sex being a strong, physical need. It is in-fact, the sexual liberals who you'll find denying that sex is a strong, physical need. Sexual liberals claim that sex is no big deal, that there is no harm caused by people pursuing promiscuous, casual sex outside of love based relationships. Sexual liberals will say it doesn't matter if sexual liberalism destroys some men's chances of finding a girl in their life because sex, to them, is essentially just another hobby that people engage in... No different from essentially playing sports. And according to them, of course there will always be winners and losers in such a sport. It doesn't matter to them if large numbers of men and women remain permanently unmarried in life as a result of liberalism destroying people's ability to form healthy relationships. It is only through traditional values that no man or woman really loses, unless he or she fails to conduct themselves in a virtuous manner.
Men should not be seducing random women they meet on the streets such as they do in Latin America, their parents or other matchmakers should be arranging marriages for them. A family should pick certain men as potential suitors for their daughter to meet and get to know them. If there is a connection between the two and they are compatible on a long term basis, the two families should arrange a marriage for them. I also do not oppose prostitution. Prostitution was legal and a normal part of life during the peak of Christian civilization. Legal prostitution is what makes all the other regulations on sexuality work. When prostitution is legal, sexually frustrated young men are not as tempted to seduce normal women into premarital sex, nor are they as tempted to try and seduce other men's wives. The Medieval church also believed that relieving the sexual frustration of young, unmarried men prevented violent crime and rape. I strongly disapprove of any kind of adultery but if its going to happen, pretty much all parties agree that it is less harmful if the adulterous man is paying a prostitute then if he ends up seducing a married or unmarried woman. Like I said, I am not justifying it is at all okay, only acting in the interests of harm reduction knowing that it will inevitably happen in some cases.
Did you know that across Europe during the 15th century, there were actually public bathhouses? Paris alone had 32 of them. People would go there and submerge themselves in wooden tubs with their spouse. These were not reserved for the nobility either but were frequented by the common peasantry. Public bathhouses even served as essentially restaurants and a small wooden table would be placed between the man and his wife. And yes, it was extremely common for people to have sex in these places. The unmarried would often go to bathhouses with a prostitute. These are what they would've looked like...
