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54: Shave Your Head and Get In the Closet: Dark History of Marriage

Dark History

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The Importance of a Wedding Veil

Babylonian men were allowed to have many side pieces, or mistresses essentially, living in their house as they could afford. If a mistress got pregnant and had a kid, the baby was then taken from her,. They would pretend that it was their baby, not the mistress's baby. It sounds exactly like Handmaid's Tale. Have you guys watched that show? I don't know why you guys like it so much, it's pretty fucked up. You kept telling me to watch it, and I did. And I couldn't sleep, and I was getting all depressed, and I spiraled, andI was like, why am I watching this?"

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