• velma@sh.itjust.works
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    16 hours ago

    There are certainly people who choose to do this. But in the time period pictured, it is more likely that this woman had no other choice.

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      11 hours ago

      Oh absolutely. Women were basically property then and no one had any concept of ‘spousal rape’.

      I was more addressing the mentality when people do it now - that it shouldn’t be assumed to be ignorance about birth control

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        10 hours ago

        That’s fair, there certainly can be a power dynamic shift within a relationship with regard to number of children.