Re: People unclear on the subject

On Mon, 05 May 2008 19:34:50 -0700, Rebecca Rice
<philospher77@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:

>And just recently I was watching Sweeny Todd (the one with 
>Depp), and the lecherous judge is showing the naive young 
>sailor his several books of ****.  Pictures of women doing 
>anything that you can imagine.  The geishas of Japan, the 
>concubines of Siam, the catamites of Greece, the harlots of 
>India....  My thought was:  Did Sondheim not realize that 
>one of these is not like the others?

He didn't create that prop - but a study of history shows that for
many societies, those were pretty much the same thing.   The question
is - was it unlikely in that particular setting?    Maybe a bit.