“You are clergyman of the parish of Bethnal-green?”“The rector of that parish.”…"Is the manner in which those houses are conducted particularly disorderly?"“I have reason to believe it is; the Seven Stars and Three Sugar Loaves are a receptacle for suspicious characters, at hours when all other public-houses are closed; and at the Sun, a club significantly termed a cock and hen club, has been, and I believe still is held.”“In which boys and girls meet?”“Yes, and get drunk and debauch one another.”
(Report from
the committee on the state of the police of the metropolis: with the minutes of
evidence, London, 1816.)
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Probably a much worse idea at the then-current levels of contraception and medical knowledge though.
It's always interesting to see how biology impresses itself on society and human behavior. I like Scott Adam's "moist robot" analogy. Our brains are just along for the ride to produce the rationalizations for the behaviors that biology demands of us.
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