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Post by Nightman on Oct 15, 2018 10:27:12 GMT
Sexual freedom if anything is related to what freedom normal women (those outside of brothels) enjoyed. Not prostitutes or people who are in position of power. The fact is that there is no evidence that women in westeros were anything like post 19th century women of this world. They were expected to behave in a certain manner. I had been thinking of noble women, but going by the standard of common women, Westeros actually isn't that bad. Noble women are expected to be pure and all that, but I don't remember women of the small folk being held to the same standard. Things might have been stricter in King's Landing during the reign of the Faith Militant, but for the most part, common women seem to be freer than noble women in this area.
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Post by Aj_June on Oct 15, 2018 10:37:31 GMT
Sexual freedom if anything is related to what freedom normal women (those outside of brothels) enjoyed. Not prostitutes or people who are in position of power. The fact is that there is no evidence that women in westeros were anything like post 19th century women of this world. They were expected to behave in a certain manner. I had been thinking of noble women, but going by the standard of common women, Westeros actually isn't that bad. Noble women are expected to be pure and all that, but I don't remember women of the small folk being held to the same standard. Things might have been stricter in King's Landing during the reign of the Faith Militant, but for the most part, common women seem to be freer than noble women in this area. I think different areas had different standards. The noble woman obviously had to be honourable and chaste. One bad thing with the show/books is that lives of peasants are not described in detail and none of the main characters are small folks. Even those who are are from humble backgrounds like Ser Davos are not normal people (smuggler/rapist etc.). There are very few women from poor class. I believe while women from small folks would get exploited by members of nobility, in themselves they tried to preserve their honour. It seemed the society had layers of class system and each class had different standards of interaction for members of different classes.
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Post by CoolJGS☺ on Oct 15, 2018 10:59:32 GMT
Some places are more liberal than others such as Dorne, but sex does not seem that big of a deal overall outside of the the ones sworn not to have it such as the Night Watch (Who ignore their vow) & Kingsguard And here goes another dumbfuck who won't understand shit. Men of the Night's Watch vow not to take responsibility for a family. "I shall take no wife, father no children". Sex is just fine as long as the guys don't come up with conflicting tasks like taking care of something else than the Watch. The Kingsguards work the same way. Fatsam broke his vow the moment he told Gilly "wherever you go, I go to". It's OK. Have a drink and learn to read the parenthesis. The vows say what they say and you can argue semantics as much as you want, just don't waste time doing it with me in relation to the topic.
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