• Kornblumenratte@feddit.de
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    1 year ago

    It’s definitely not Anglo–Saxon as in “inherited from the Germanic tribes of Angles and Saxons”, afaik medieval and early modern English society was quite open about sex.

    After the Reformation, England bred or harboured quite a few fundamentalist Christian sects which had a huge impact on English and especially American society.