[quote]LoRez wrote:
[quote]Varqanir wrote:
Was there ever a period in history where “sexual morality” wasn’t “lax”?
The Victorian Era was stereotypically sexually repressed, where “virtue” was paramount, and yet they were just as randy and perverted as the Greeks, the Romans…or as we are. [/quote]
The Christian “Dark Ages”?
The initial Islamic conquests? Not the conquerers themselves, but the subsequent Muslim rule.
Those are the two major lulls in scientific, technological and cultural progress that I can think of. And, as far as I know, sexuality was relatively repressed.
But it’s very likely I’m suffering from bias from historians as well as my own selection bias. So, I could be totally wrong.
Greece and Rome, a few of the early Persian empires, certain Indian empires, the Enlightenment… all seem to have had a reputation for their more, I dunno, lax morals and open/progressive/liberal sexuality.[/quote]
Isn’t it a pretty well debunked myth that ‘the dark ages’ were a period lacking in scientific/intellectual discovery? The early middle ages had a period of recovery where obviously growth is difficult, but beyond that, religion was actually at the forefront of creating universities and libraries and studying medicine, and the crusades were a fruitful time of military development(technology).
