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To: Augustus Gloop who wrote (13979)	6/2/2007 1:29:15 PM
From: longnshort	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 14758

Maybe those women are 'wired' to be really good at nagging.

To: Augustus Gloop who wrote (13979)	6/2/2007 1:33:27 PM
From: epicure	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 14758

We've done interesting things to "immoral" women. The Scarlet Letter covers some of that territory. While the actions taken in revenge for the immorality of the woman may be different, the moral impetus is remarkably similar. Apparently colonial Mass imposed the death penalty for adultery- I knew the colonists were severe, but I hadn't know about the death penalty (in Plymouth whipping was the penalty): Blasphemy, sorcery, adultery, and rape are punished by death; a son who outrages his parents is subject to the same penalty. [Footnote: The laws of Massachusetts also imposed the death penalty for adultery, and Hutchinson (Vol. I, p. 441) says that several people were actually executed for that crime; in this context he quotes a strange story of something which happened in 1663. A married woman had a love affair with a young man; her husband died and she married him; several years passed; at length the public came to suspect the intimacy which had earlier existed between the spouses, and criminal proceedings were brought against them; they were thrown into prison, and both were very near being condemned to death.] Thus the legislation of a rough, half-civilized people was transported into the midst of an educated society with gentle mores; as a result the death penalty has never been more frequently prescribed by the laws or more seldom carried out.