#puritanism

Historically the Puritans left England to escape religious persecution, and they promptly turned around and started persecuting the people they didn't agree with - the scarlet letter A, and the stocks and the dunking board came from that. That puritanism is still there. ↗

— Hugh Hefner

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#around #board #came #england #escape

The most serious charge which can be brought against New England is not Puritanism but February. ↗

— Joseph Wood Krutch

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#brought #charge #england #february #most

In America sex is an obsession, in other parts of the world it is a fact. ↗

— Marlene Dietrich

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#morality #obsession #prudishness #puritanism #sexuality