Buffy 15: So this queen thing's illegal?
Edited by Nov 2, 2002 8:34 am
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I don't consider the Victorian period sexless, but as an unmarried man who's placed his crush on a major pedestal, I think his sexual encounters might have been limited to the kitchen maid or a prostitute, neither of which at the time were known for barrier birth control methods.
In that case I misread you, Madrigal, and I'm sorry. I have a bit of a twitch about people using "Victorian" to mean "repressed", and it kicked in when that wasn't what you were saying.
By 1880, inexpensive rubber condoms were becoming available.
Prostitutes did tend to use barrier methods, IIRC, but those were closer to diaphrams than condoms. (And, of course YPMV. Again, there's a range of costs and ability.)
(Plus, I don't really think that the average random guy would do a happy demonstration involving discussion of STDs and a banana for some strange British guy in the Walgreens.)
I'd certainly be a regular Walgreens patron if they did.
Huh. I admit that my knowledge of Olde Tyme prostitutes is mostly of those during the 16/1700s thanks to a senior thesis on "Moll Flanders", so I was figuring that the profession wouldn't have changed that much over the years.
Madrigal, that paper sounds FANTASTIC.
I'll have to dig it out sometime - Moll Flanders as the archetypal hero - I think the English department shared a stroke over it.
<edit - I mean, they all had bits of a neural episode....did not mean it the other way....completely unintentional bad picture....ack.>
Alibelle - Aug 31, 2002 9:04 pm (#2975 of 2987)
<edit - I mean, they all had bits of a neural episode....did not mean it the other way....completely unintentional bad picture....ack.>
EWW. I didn't read it the other way until just now and ewww.
Now I think you need to share your paper to make up for it.
Eww. I didn't think of it as anything but a burst blood vessel until you mentioned it.
So yes, share the paper.
- Aug 31, 2002 10:00 pm (#2977 of 2987)
Yeah, I agree. I meant a pharmacist or something
I could tell you stories about this very thing.
scrappy - Sep 1, 2002 12:43 am (#2978 of 2987)
Edited by Aug 31, 2002 5:44 pm
Spike/Faith wins my vote as the Hottest Sex Ever. I don't know how they would manage this, but there must be a way.
Hey, a girl can dream, can't she?
- Sep 1, 2002 1:55 am (#2979 of 2987)
Spike/Faith wins my vote as the Hottest Sex Ever.
I think that Fuffy's 'Champagne' speech to Spike wins as the hottest sex ever.
I think that Fuffy's 'Champagne' speech to Spike wins as the hottest sex ever.
Heh. I wonder if Spike was ever informed that that WASN'T Buffy. May well transfer his obsession, that.
erika jahneke - Sep 1, 2002 2:23 am (#2981 of 2987)
That would be Too Hot For TV. Mine would melt.
- Sep 1, 2002 2:23 am (#2982 of 2987)
Mine would short out from my drool.
Hmmm, I did have a little plot notion of Spike coming into his crypt and finding Faith sitting on the coffin eating a chocolate Easter Bunny. Hijinks ensue.
Alibelle - Sep 1, 2002 4:43 am (#2984 of 2987)
And by hijinks you mean sexual relations, of course, which is foreshadowed by the bunny. That's brilliant, Hec.
I mean it's got chocolate, coffin, Easter, and bunny all going before you look at the beautiful people in tastefully contrasting colorations.
Why is everything dirty with you people?
Alibelle - Sep 1, 2002 4:49 am (#2987 of 2987)
Because you're so inspiring, Trudy?
Buffy 15: So this queen thing's illegal?