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Ganked from the Douglas Wilson blog
Nov. 20th, 2007 10:43 pmI saw this post and just had to put it up.
"No doubt future social historians will find the contradiction between our concern about sexual abuse, on the one hand, and our connivance at and indifference to precocious sexual activity, on the other, as curious as we find the contrast between Victorian sexual prudery and the vast size of the Victorian demimonde"
(Theodore Dalrymple, Life at the Bottom, p. 193).
"No doubt future social historians will find the contradiction between our concern about sexual abuse, on the one hand, and our connivance at and indifference to precocious sexual activity, on the other, as curious as we find the contrast between Victorian sexual prudery and the vast size of the Victorian demimonde"
(Theodore Dalrymple, Life at the Bottom, p. 193).
