Five Days of Vintage Smut

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ANNALS OF CLUELESSNESS

Frank Bruni: The Right’s Righteous Frauds

Great contributions in the Comments section here, including this:

“Marriage throughout the thousands of years may have been between men and women, but it is a myth that it is anything like it is today. Even though Cleopatra and her family were Greek, she married her brother because Eygptian royality kept it all in the family. Ancient Greeks married for procreation but manly men had male lovers because that was considered more masculine than sex with women. In the courtly Middle Ages you married for politics and kept a lover for love. When I toured the plantations in Natchez, MS, I found that most of the huge plantations, in the past, were all owned by the same families. They married their first cousins, not for love, but to keep the property in the family. Our ideas about marriage are modern. A man and a woman marrying for love is a novel idea compared to the reasons people married for thousands of years. Marriage is always evolving and same-sex marriage is part of that evolution.”–Linda, Oklahoma

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