A Little Help From My Friends
Chasing Life
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The Evolution of Friendship in the 1950s
In the early 1800s and before in the western world, friends were a lot more intimate. Now people would see that as homoerotic Time it was taboo, yes, to have sex with someone of the same sex But sexual orientation as an identity didn't exist Then comes Freud, and Freud is like, if you... You know, one half sex with someone of the same sex, that's part of your identity. And so now that sexual orientation is an identity It's not just taboo to engage in sex withsomeone of the same Sex There's an entire gamut of behaviors with people of the samesex that are stigmatized Including being too loving including for some people hugging
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