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Culture War Roundup for the week of December 9, 2024

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That's called young women being naive, not being prostitutes. Yes these young women are very foolish, but seriously believing commitment is the price of sex is, literally, what separates a proper lady from a public woman.

They have always been naive, but this behavior is new.

I recall a '40s born writer in a novel describing toilet sex between people who met themselves on a trip as utterly disgusting and low class.

Now sex on first date is allegedly common.

On one hand, sure, there's probably a signal there.

On the other hand, this comment immediately reminded me of "Train Kept a Rollin", which I thought was first recorded in 1956 by Johnny Burnette: https://youtube.com/watch?v=hbw_jI4S924&pp=ygUjdHJhaW4ga2VwdCBhIHJvbGxpbiBqb2hubnkgYnVybmV0dGU%3D Upon closer investigation, the actual original was in 1951, by Tiny Bradshaw, and rather less suggestive to my ear: https://youtube.com/watch?v=ci4EQDD4CqA&pp=ygUYdHJhaW4ga2VwdCBhIHJvbGxpbiAxOTUx

The signal is a lot less informative when half of the people do it.

And christ, that Burnette version is nasty, in all kinds of ways.

Yeah, guys were just figuring out that electric guitars could do more than just be heard over the horns, they were futzing around with vacuum tubes in the amps and stabbing speakers with pencils and suchlike to get fuzz.

The Sonics (1960ish): https://youtube.com/watch?v=7hAT-Lz7M_g&pp=ygUUdGhlIHNvbmljcyBib3NzIGhvc3M%3D

Link Wray (1958): https://youtube.com/watch?v=ucTg6rZJCu4&pp=ygUGcnVtYmxl

Also see the guitar sound on "Rocket 88" (1953) and first comment on the video: https://youtube.com/watch?v=Gbfnh1oVTk0&pp=ygUJcm9ja2V0IDg4

This is because young women have more freedom to do stupid things. This is not in their interests, of course, but 'why did naive young women not put out in 1940 when they do today' has an answer and it isn't 'there was a war on' nor is it 'because today they don't think they should get commitment for sex'.

Yeah. But we live in a liberal society that pretends we're all equal in our decision making ability.

So very noble and conveniently also allows for the exploitation of the weak minded and willed by the clever and the ruthless.

Yes, because of the sexual revolution. Whether that was or remains in women’s interest is a different question entirely.

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