Male Affection Wasn’t Taboo Until Modern Days – WTF Fun Fact
but tumblr told me they were all gay.
Do you mean to tell me the internet lied.
Most Europeans could’ve told you this. I’ve never met a more comfortable, personal bubble-less bunch then when I was in Eastern Europe.
We stateside are descended from p u r i t a n s
Frfr. It’s pretty ridiculous considering the whole “aversion to physical affection” thing is pretty uniquely American and people in Europe, Africa, and Asia are all kind of looking at us like “huh?”
I think that’s a big part of why those stimming and “totally satisfying“ type videos are so popular. We are starved for human connection and physical sensations.
I’m not even gonna pin this on puritans. Even Puritans were not that bad, especially since they quickly became a minority and are non-existent now as a denomination, and the US was perfectly happy with physical forms of affection until recently.
I really want to look into this more, but this touch starvation thing really is a very recent phenomena, as in, half-a-century or so recent. Instead of blaming a long dead denomination that is not even that terrible concerning sex as people think, we gotta look closely at ourselves and close previous generations that raised us and our parents.
What if the whole Sexual Liberation is why we all became so afraid of touching each other?
Because we’re so ingrained into seeing everything as inherently sexual we stopped being close to each other and giving physical affection because it was deemed on par with a sexual advance?
Americans are crazy they also think EVERYTHING is pedophilia.
Like in Asian countries, babies don’t sleep in nursery rooms or cribs, they sleep in the parents bed. In fact most children aren’t deemed old enough to have their own rooms until 8-10 years of age. I didn’t get my own room until I was 7. And in some cases children sleep in the same room as the parents to save on AC bills.
I have heard of cases of Asian parents being accosted by the CPS because their child sleeps in the same bed as them. Because according to America, sleeping = sex! It can’t be ANYTHING else!!
No sir! A parent would want their child to sleep in the same room so they can check on them immediately if something goes wrong or to save on electricity! THEY MUST BE CHILD MOLESTERS!
Ok, but when you say babies sleep in the same bed as the parents, how do you make sure you don’t accidentally squash it???
also australia is a bit weird about physical contact too. I don’t see all physical contact as sexual but i don’t like touching people anyway because that’s just a preference, not because i think that way.
The baby is kept a pillow in between both parents usually, either that or nowadays they keep a cradle in the same room as the parents next to the bed.
Oh and I googled the diaper changing thing it happened in Arizona and needless to say people were not happy.
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