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Re:Don't worry about global population collapse by wiseowise on Sunday October 01, 2023 @03:39AM (#37723657)
> and coming home and making babies with your wife

You mean raising lord’s kid?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Droit_du_seigneur

> I still lean towards a romantic past - working hard with your village friends, then going to the pub with them, and coming home and making babies with your wife, in a home you own, with a tended garden and many children, sounds better than writing Ansible playbooks and jacking off to pornhub. And this is the life of a loser in the past, compared to a "winner" of the present.

Why are so focused on porn? Modern life is amazingly diverse with activities: jumping with parachute, sports, dancing, games, science clubs, I could go in forever. Maybe instead of lamenting try to actually do something except for jerking off and writing ansible for 9 hours?

Re:Don't worry about global population collapse by Gud on Sunday October 01, 2023 @05:00AM (#37724097)
> You mean raising lord’s kid?

From the link to wikipedia you sourced:

> A majority of historians[citation needed] have concluded that the idea is a myth and that all references to it are from later periods.

Re:Don't worry about global population collapse by wiseowise on Sunday October 01, 2023 @06:52AM (#37724677)
> [citation needed]
Re:Don't worry about global population collapse by Gud on Sunday October 01, 2023 @07:17AM (#37724829)
I'm not saying it didn't happen. I am saying there is not really that much evidence.

Also from the wikipedia link you sourced:

> Scholars in the 19th and 20th centuries gave the historical basis of the "right of first night" a good deal of attention.[clarification needed][37] Historians David M. Walker and Hector McKechnie wrote that the right might have existed in medieval Europe,[7][53] but other historians[who?] have concluded that it is a myth, and that all references to it are from later periods.[54][8] Over time, the Encyclopædia Britannica and the Larousse encyclopedias dramatically changed their opinion on the topic, moving from acceptance to rejection of the historical veracity of the idea.[55] French writer Louis Veuillot wrote a book in 1854 disputing its existence.[56] After an exhaustive historical study, German jurist Karl Schmidt concluded in 1881 that it was a scholarly misconception.[37] After Schmidt, many of those who believed in the existence of the custom based their opinions on anthropological studies of tribal societies, though according to W. D. Howarth, this was a misguided argument because of the disparity between the tribal societies and medieval European society.[57]