Because we need justification.
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mag7daybookWell, maybe. I came across this lovely article on the history of people sleeping in beds.
Well, technically, on people sleeping together.
Communally.
Though - yeah, sex, too. Apparently, it's not really until the latter half of the 1800s, the Victorian period in Britain and to some extent here in the United States, that it became more accepted to sleep alone.
I think, though, that this might not have been the case in the West, as 'civilization'- and its rules - was slower to catch up there.
So I give you "The Once-Common Practice of Communal Sleeping". To keep warm. To talk about things that you couldn't talk about in public.
And, well, you know . . .
Well, technically, on people sleeping together.
Communally.
Though - yeah, sex, too. Apparently, it's not really until the latter half of the 1800s, the Victorian period in Britain and to some extent here in the United States, that it became more accepted to sleep alone.
I think, though, that this might not have been the case in the West, as 'civilization'- and its rules - was slower to catch up there.
So I give you "The Once-Common Practice of Communal Sleeping". To keep warm. To talk about things that you couldn't talk about in public.
And, well, you know . . .
