[ SECRET POST #3070 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #3070 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.

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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

The reasoning behind him getting married is simple, it's showing he's less selfish than Sherlock Holmes.
Remember in the time the books were written, men were considered naturally asexual and women were naturally oversexed. It was a man's duty to take a woman to wife and allow her to taint him with lust in order to help tame and purify her. To remain a bachelor was seen as selfish, because you were maintaining your own purity at the expense of a poor woman who would be damned by her own sinfulness.

It's not until later that lust was seen as a positive emotion and men naturally sexual while women were supposed to be sexless and an outlet for their husbands' urges.

[(Anonymous)]

Uh huh. Yeah. Okay.

[intrigueing]

That sounds kind of hot. I'd actually really like to read a story with this sort of character dynamic. /not joking

[(Anonymous)]

Nah, by the late 1800s, the whole "women being sexless" thing was definitely, well, a thing. The switch happened earlier than you seem to think it did.

[(Anonymous)]

No.

Yrs, an historian.