“No! I’ve just scratched the surface! Take sex, for example. For most of history, sex education of any kind was forbidden; it wasn’t even openly discussed, by anyone, ever. Gay kids, trans kids would’ve thought they were possessed by demons, and everyone grew up thinking masturbation was this bizarre, grotesque habit only they indulged in—you had actual medical texts that said that boys were at risk of insanity if they touched themselves. They used to sell little spiked rings for boys to wear that would stab them if they got an erection. And did the average man even know how to perform oral
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