Yet another "another" Reich

[Paul Mackin]

Ghetta Life wrote:

>
> Oh, but this is the sexually repressived USA, founded by Puritans, and 
> we've never gotten over it!
>
This is mixing two meanings of the word "puritan."  Where is it written 
that the The Puritans of the Massachusetts Bay Colony (and to a lesser 
extent in the Virginia Colony) were all that sexually squeamish in the 
sense of "puritanical" in its modern usage?

For example, see . . .

http://users.ev1.net/~homeville/fictionmag/s1046.htm

Pace Hester and Dimmsdale!

Historically the Puritans were religious dissenters--against practices 
of the Church of English deemed to be popish. It was puritan in the 
sense of purifying.



>> From: Otto <ottosell at yahoo.de>
>>
>> "In August 1956, several tons of Reich's publications were burned by 
>> the FDA."
>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilhelm_Reich
>>
>> Burning books always reveals who is the evil one!
>>
>> I was really shocked when I read (in the 70s) that Reich had been 
>> treated that way in the USA.
>>
>> Otto
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