Post Views: 361 In the Roman Catholic & Lutherian doctrines, “Thou Shalt Not Kill” comes before “Thou Shalt Not Commit Adultery”. I’m pointing this out because I think that it’s something that bears keeping in mind in our stories, particularly as “children of the empire”… by which I mean modern North America and Victorian Britain, respectively. North America, collectively, was born of a time and place where violence was the way that the Empire was held together, one way or another. Sexual relations, even consensual ones on the other hand, were taboo topics by the social mores of the day for those people educated enough to worry about writing about the times. I make note of the education level, because we know that Victorian London had a thriving trade…
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