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Brian Dear (brianstorms@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 13-Sep-2024 20:48:17 UTC Brian Dear

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We skipped the Comprehension Age which should always come first so people are trained to effectively observe, analyze, evaluate, verify, question, challenge, organize, absorb, and share Information.

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- Santa Claes 🇸🇪🇭🇰🎅 (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Friday, 13-Sep-2024 20:48:16 UTC Santa Claes 🇸🇪🇭🇰🎅
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  @brianstorms @countcol In "Nexus", or at least in an interview I saw regarding the book, Yuval Harari suggests that every new information age has an initial chaotic era before society figures out the insitutions required to handle the new technology. Among the first bestsellers with the new printing press were witch-hunting manuals.
  I imagine another category of early print bestsellers was porn, just like with VHS and the internet.
  
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- Santa Claes 🇸🇪🇭🇰🎅 (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Saturday, 14-Sep-2024 06:04:12 UTC Santa Claes 🇸🇪🇭🇰🎅
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  - Tim Ward ⭐🇪🇺🔶 #FBPE
  It is one of the most prosecuted and banned books in history.
  Kudos to John Cleland, you made a mark!
  Makes me think of "Life of Brian", which was considered too blasphemous to show in Norway, and marketed in Sweden as so funny it's banned in Norway. 😁
  @TimWardCam @brianstorms @countcol
  
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- Tim Ward ⭐🇪🇺🔶 #FBPE (timwardcam@c.im)'s status on Saturday, 14-Sep-2024 06:04:13 UTC Tim Ward ⭐🇪🇺🔶 #FBPE
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  @clacke @brianstorms @countcol https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fanny_Hill
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  1. Fanny Hill
    
    Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure—popularly known as Fanny Hill—is an erotic novel by the English novelist John Cleland first published in London in 1748. Written while the author was in debtors' prison in London, it is considered "the first original English prose pornography, and the first pornography to use the form of the novel". It is one of the most prosecuted and banned books in history. The book exemplifies the use of euphemism. The text has no swearing or explicit scientific terms for body parts, but uses many literary devices to describe genitalia. For example, the vagina is sometimes referred to as "the nethermouth", which is also an example of psychological displacement. A critical edition by Peter Sabor includes a bibliography and explanatory notes. The collection Launching "Fanny Hill" contains several essays on the historical, social and economic themes underlying the novel. Publishing history The novel was published in two instalments, on 21 November 1748 and in February 1749, by Fenton Griffiths and his brother Ralph under the name "G. Fenton...
- Ben Aveling (benaveling@mastodon.au)'s status on Saturday, 14-Sep-2024 12:20:46 UTC Ben Aveling
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  @brianstorms @clacke @countcol the pornographers are always at the forefront of any viable new technology. Which is why their lack of interest in crypto currency is telling.
  
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