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[–]VioletRemi 5 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 0 fun6 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Yeah and lewd stuff was not completely direct too, except few most lewd letters. It was written in innuendos or verse-like. And everyone around was "they are just very close friends". Peasants in that era were basically slaves, without any rights to do anything without landlord. I have some experience with real mail texting with people, but sexting like that would drove me mad, no wonder their published writtings became so hot during that period :D

[–]florasis 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Yeah, poor women. A very shitty time to being a woman, let alone a lesbian. Imagine the confusion to understanding themselves and what to do and struggle for an oppressive society. Most of world is still like that, but at least people can still access information from the west. At the time, there was no information to access and all the world were bigoted. We're lucky.