
Aristophanes' Assemblywomen | The New Thinkery Ep. 59
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What Is Praxagora's Genuine Motive?
Communism of property and communism of the sexual resources are hugely a innovative, sort of contradicting everything she said prior. Her law is that any young and beautiful person must service an old and ugly person before they can enjoy an age mate. So everyone is going to share in the sexual resources of the city. Nobody is going to be left out. Nobody's not going to have a young and beautiful sexual partner. But the question becomes, since she's offered such contra tory accounts of what sheis up to, what is she really why is she doing this? What does proxagora, or what do the women in general get out of this innovation?
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