Episode #41: The Gentlemen and the Roughs with Dr. Lorien Foote
The Art of Manliness
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The Role of Drinking in Honor
In the rough, their version of honor was very much a if you are shamed in public, it is a violent response. And then they proved their manhood through rituals that showed that they could take and give pain. There was often I gouging that was the thing that surprised me. Men would actually grow fingernails several inches long in order to use that as a weapon to gouge out somebody's eye.
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