Sep 29, 2023 10:47 PM
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Thomas Sowell
https://youtu.be/36OJY4esrtw
VIDEO EXCERPTS: Southern whites were as different from Northern whites when it came to sexual patterns as they were in other ways. Widespread casual sex was commented on by outside observers in both the American South and in those parts of Britain from which Southerners had come.
Here again the greatest contrast is with New England. While pregnant brides were very rare in 17th century New England, they were more common in the Southern backcountry than anywhere else in the United States.
[...] the sexual customs of the Southern backcountry were similar to those of Northwestern England. Meanwhile, the region of England from which New Englanders came had the lowest rates of illegitimacy in England. Just as their descendants had the lowest rates of illegitimacy in the United States.
Women dressed more revealingly in the South and both sexes spoke more freely about sex than was common in New England. In the 17th century, most Virginia girls found a husband by the age of 17. While in Massachusetts the average age at which women married was 23.
In that era fornication and rape were acts severely punished in New England. [...] while in the Chesapeake Bay colonies it was sometimes punished less severely than petty theft...
Why southern whites had different sexual behaviors than northerners
https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/36OJY4esrtw
https://youtu.be/36OJY4esrtw
VIDEO EXCERPTS: Southern whites were as different from Northern whites when it came to sexual patterns as they were in other ways. Widespread casual sex was commented on by outside observers in both the American South and in those parts of Britain from which Southerners had come.
Here again the greatest contrast is with New England. While pregnant brides were very rare in 17th century New England, they were more common in the Southern backcountry than anywhere else in the United States.
[...] the sexual customs of the Southern backcountry were similar to those of Northwestern England. Meanwhile, the region of England from which New Englanders came had the lowest rates of illegitimacy in England. Just as their descendants had the lowest rates of illegitimacy in the United States.
Women dressed more revealingly in the South and both sexes spoke more freely about sex than was common in New England. In the 17th century, most Virginia girls found a husband by the age of 17. While in Massachusetts the average age at which women married was 23.
In that era fornication and rape were acts severely punished in New England. [...] while in the Chesapeake Bay colonies it was sometimes punished less severely than petty theft...
Why southern whites had different sexual behaviors than northerners