1809-1865: Pierre-Joseph Proudhon (dropping some fat trvth bombs)
>I said the facts reveal that which every individual of good faith glimpses and knows: That man is stronger, but less beautiful; woman more beautiful, but less vigorous. At this you laugh. You deny the facts, because, contrary to your own thesis, you imagine that I cite them with bad intent. You go so far as to say that I don’t produce facts;even more, that the facts favor you. The woman surprised in adultery always denies; her husband still has an obligation to believe her.—Proudhon, PJ & Mattessich, S (Trans.) 2018, 'Selections from Pornocracy, or Women in Modern Times', Cultural Critique, vol. 100, pp. 44-64
>(Woman) has naturally more of a penchant for lasciviousness than man; first because her ego is weaker, and liberty and intelligence struggle less in her against the inclinations of animality; then because love is the great, especially singular occupation of her life, and in love, the ideal always implies the physical . . .— ibid
>The more predominant beauty is in her (woman), the more she inclines to force [...] in order to tame this force, the offer of her beauty may be free or it is an act of prostitution.—ibid, pp. 48-49.
>In certain epochs, sex consciousness gets mixed up; the cowardice of men becomes an auxiliary of the woman’s audacity; and we see appear these theories of enfranchisement and promiscuity, of which the last word is PORNOCRACY. At this point society is finished.— ibid, p. 54
>The lover who gives herself for nothing is a phoenix that doesn’t exist except for the poets; this is why when she gives herself outside marriage, she is a libertine, she is a prostitute; she knows this so well that if, later, she finds someone to marry, she will present herself as a widow; she will lie; to impudence she will join both hypocrisy and perfidy.— ibid, p. 56
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>>20285853Thank you for your attention span which is more valuable than gold, these days
