It’s been a long hiatus, and woefully unplanned, but at last
Runicfire returns with a new edition of Monday Links!
The notion that humans are obsessed with sex is all but an
axiom. Every society on earth possesses its own sets of customs and taboos
regarding sexuality, with some cultivating its expression and others
suppressing or controlling the prurient instinct as much as possible. Our
society frowns on adultery, considering the practice an insult to the sanctity
of marriage, but Sarah Laskow at Atlas Obscura contends that American lawsagainst adultery were employed largely to enforce an altogether different setof taboos (NSFW). Rather than to avenge breaches of fidelity, adultery
laws—which have been on the books and enforced as recently as the 1980s in some
of the United States—served to punish female sexual expression as well as
affections between people of different races.
On an entirely different but no less tawdry subject, Scott
Mendleson at Forbes writes about why speculators on the upcoming Star Warsfilm’s profits are setting themselves (and us) up for disappointment.
Lastly, I came across a fascinating article while trying to
determine if anyone else had written a novel that could be described as
Renpunk. This blog post, by author Balogun O. Abeegunde, posits a name for a hypothetical genre of heroic fantasy set around the time of the Haitian Revolution. Mr. Abeegunde
himself is, according to his bio, “one of the leading authorities on
Steamfunk—a philosophy of or style of writing that combines the African and/or
African American culture and approach to life with that of the steampunk
philosophy[.]” I had not heard of Steamfunk before, but I guarantee you I will
be looking into the genre more intently, as well as Mr. Abeegunde’s blog, in
the future.
That
is all for today’s edition of Monday Links. Until next time, stay tuned!
Apropos of Renpunk: You've seen Rupetta, right?
ReplyDeleteI haven't, sadly. What is it about?
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