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Is Benjamin Franklin's advice here misogyny or does it actually help women?
http://www.swarthmore.edu/SocSci/bdorsey1/41docs/5...
5. Because in every Animal that walks upright, the Deficiency of the Fluids that fill the Muscles appears first in the highest Part: The Face first grows lank and wrinkled; then the Neck; then the Breast and Arms; the lower Parts continuing to the last as plump as ever: So that covering all above with a Basket, and regarding only what is below the Girdle, it is impossible of two Women to know an old from a young one. And as in the dark all Cats are grey, the Pleasure of corporal Enjoyment with an old Woman is at least equal, and frequently superior, every Knack being by Practice capable of Improvement.
I mean taken as a whole. I did not have the space to quote the entire letter, so I only posted a sample which is obviously taken out of context.
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- 7 years agoFavorite Answer
I'm not sure that it helps women, but it's very candid and blunt advice. What we must take into account is that Benjamin Franklin was supposedly (he's not around to defend himself of course, and none of use can really know beyond a shadow of a doubt) a real lech. He did have a high reputation for being a womanizer... I think he was just horny when he wrote this, but in the times people had a more genteel way of expressing it. I'd wager that's the sentiment here. Saludos...
