All you have to do is read Hemmingway and his contemporaries
to see just how wrong that perception is.
volente Deo,
Anthony Dauer Alexandria, Virginia
"I know. We are ... the lucky ones." Bif Naked, 1999
> From: Mark Sullivan
> Sent: Friday, February 04, 2000 12:42 AM
>
> Kent wrote:
>
> "I remember one reviewer who used to complain about
the projection of
> modern sexual mores onto tales set in the first half
of the century
> (before the sexual revolution of the 1960s), when in
reality
> no-sex-before-marriage was a rather strict
norm."
>
> It was a pretty strict norm in reality, but was it
in fiction,
> especially pulp fiction? I see no lack of willing
women in Gold Medals.
> for instance, many of which were written prior to
the '60s.
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