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EA’s latest The Sims 4 patch is making everyone pregnant, including the men and the chaste (www.videogamer.com)

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[–] ch00f@lemmy.world 55 points 21 hours ago* (last edited 21 hours ago) (19 children)

While not every player is not privy to the nightmare of every person in their game becoming with child, those who have the bug are finding a large number of Sims randomly marked as pregnant.

Who the fuck wrote this?

Once a character is pregnant, they can’t Woo-Hoo anymore,

Never pegged The Sims for being so Puritain.

[–] tal@lemmy.today 5 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

I don't think the Puritans had any issue with pregnant people having sex.

[–] ch00f@lemmy.world 8 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

I assumed they were generally against the concept of sex not strictly for the purpose of reproduction.

[–] tal@lemmy.today 16 points 20 hours ago (2 children)

https://www.bostonmagazine.com/arts-entertainment/2016/10/18/puritans-and-sex-myth/

Debunking the Myth Surrounding Puritans and Sex

The Puritans weren't prudish. In fact, they were passionate.

From the beginning, Puritans maintained sexual intercourse was necessary for procreation, but also asserted sex was an important way for couples to bond in a loving relationship.

“They talk about the duty to desire, that you’re supposed to engage in intercourse with your married partner and that this is good,” says Bremer. “There will actually be some people in early New England who are censured by the church because they have deprived their married partner of sex for three months or more and this is seen as bad.”

[–] prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

“There will actually be some people in early New England who are censured by the church because they have deprived their married partner of sex for three months or more and this is seen as bad.”

Bet I can guess the gender of the people who were censured...

[–] tal@lemmy.today 4 points 4 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago)

I'm assuming that you're guessing "female"?

https://sexualityandthecity.com/2016/11/26/when-women-wanted-sex-much-more-than-men/

In the 1600s, a man named James Mattock was expelled from the First Church of Boston. His crime? It wasn’t using lewd language or smiling on the Sabbath or anything else that we might think the Puritans had disapproved of. Rather, James Mattock had refused to have sex with his wife for two years.

Looking at other sources, the expulsion was in 1640.

[–] ch00f@lemmy.world 6 points 20 hours ago

TIL thanks

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