From: tortilla@dontemailme.com   
      
   In article <06eee01q4j3o95brm9diov2p1ivvf76mfb@4ax.com>,   
   myscreenname@firetrick.net says...   
      
   >It was only in reflection back from today   
   >that she could draw that conclusion.   
      
   And reflecting on that remark, I wonder how   
   much "sexual attraction" is due to how one   
   is acculturated in a given societal situation.   
      
   For example, I have to wonder if because men   
   today have so much liesure time, and are bombarded   
   by so much TITillation in the media, movies etc.,   
   if our sex drive is more highly tuned than in   
   days of yore? When a man today looks at photos   
   and ads of women in 19th century dress, I think   
   it safe to say most find them unattractive in   
   general comparison to how women look and dress today.   
      
   I can also imagine that when men actually   
   had to "work" - as in toil - for long hours each   
   day in order to eke out a living, their sex drive   
   may well have been suppressed by fatigue. This would   
   have especially been true in the days of western   
   expansion, when women were also laboring daily   
   without the aid of modern appliances, and wore   
   homespun fluor sack dresses, went without   
   bathing or perfuming, etc.   
      
   Even in eastern USA society, women back then sure   
   don't look all that alluring in old photos - wearing   
   dresses that covered everything from head to foot with   
   an attitude that showing even a little ankle was risque.   
   And imagine the trouble a man had to go to trying   
   to get a woman out of those whale bone corsets, hoop   
   skirts, lace up high-top shoes, etc.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)