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Re:Charlie Munger defends windowless dorm rooms for Californ... by lbriner on Thursday November 04, 2021 @07:46AM (#29105891)
Maybe college is about learning stuff and having a roomie to challenge and help you. I doubt the powers that be are worried about you wanting a long-term relationship.

Remember that people having sex while not married has only been acceptable for perhaps 50 years to society, which post-dates many colelge buildings. There might be lots of people who want to dissuade people from "illicit liasons" by pairing them up in rooms to make things harder ;-)

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Re:Charlie Munger defends windowless dorm rooms for Californ... by chrisseaton on Thursday November 04, 2021 @07:49AM (#29105913)
> Maybe college is about learning stuff and having a roomie to challenge and help you.

Learn with, challenge, and help you… in the bedroom?!

You don’t need to sleep and get undressed in the same room as someone to study with them.

> I doubt the powers that be are worried about you wanting a long-term relationship.

When I was at Uni they made a big deal about how many people met their future partners there.

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Re:Charlie Munger defends windowless dorm rooms for Californ... by Pasorrijer on Thursday November 04, 2021 @07:54AM (#29105961)
Not to be nit-picky, but I'd just add the caveat "having sex while not married has become fashionable in the last 50 years, after a few hundred years of Catholic puritanism"... Sex outside of marriage has been extremely acceptable in many non-western societies at basically all stages of human development.
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Re:Charlie Munger defends windowless dorm rooms for Californ... by pjc50 on Thursday November 04, 2021 @08:03AM (#29106049)
In the US religious context, "Catholic" and "Puritan" are mutually hostile, although neither is very keen on extramarital relationships.
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Re:Charlie Munger defends windowless dorm rooms for Californ... by AlexandrB on Thursday November 04, 2021 @08:00AM (#29106012)
For women having sex while not being married has been acceptable for ~50 years. For men, I think it was always acceptable - or at least accepted.
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