Serious question: at what points in human history were the forces shaping young people's ideas of sex, pleasure and consent good ones?https://twitter.com/zeynep/status/961279784524353536 …
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Nicholas Danforth Retweeted zeynep tufekci
Serious question: at what points in human history were the forces shaping young people's ideas of sex, pleasure and consent good ones?https://twitter.com/zeynep/status/961279784524353536 …
Nicholas Danforth added,
Like what era do people imagine was the golden age for this kind of thing? The 50s? Margaret Mead's Somoa?
you think so? That’s interesting. I guess I’m predisposed to thinking some historical context is always relevant.
One doesn’t have to believe pre-modern practice medicine was great, for example, to argue that a clinical study that’s not double blind may have selection effects. Seems pretty straightforward to me. “When was it better” is thus orthogonal to my point.
the passage seemed a bit alarmist thats all. to go w the metaphor, if a piece about bad clinical studies seemed to be saying "modern medicine is killing us!" that could well be true but id suggest some historical context was appropriate.
The passage is accurate. The shift to new forms of mediation is real and consequential. If there was some misplaced nostalgia for a (non-existing) golden age, maybe than saying “but the past isn’t great” isn’t orthogonal. But that isn’t there either.
That’s not arguing the past was any sort of golden age!
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