Anne Frank's 'dirty jokes' found in hidden diary pages
Two new pages from Anne Frank's diary have been published, containing a handful of dirty jokes and her thoughts on sex. The young Jewish teen's diary, written in hiding from the Nazis, became world-famous when published after her death and at the end of the war.
The hidden pages had been covered with gummed brown paper - apparently to hide her risqué writing from her family. New imaging techniques have finally allowed researchers to read them.
The entries were written on 28 September 1942, not long after the 13-year-old Anne went into hiding. "I'll use this spoiled page to write down 'dirty' jokes", she wrote on a page with a handful of crossed-out phrases - and jotted down four dirty jokes she knew. She added a few dozen lines about sex education, imagining she has to give "the talk" to someone else, and mentioning prostitutes - who she wrote elsewhere that her father had told her about.
(Score: 2) by dry on Thursday May 17 2018, @04:52AM (2 children)
Must depend on where you grow up. IIRC, we started sex ed in grade 6 (could be out by a year), which was when some girls were starting to grow boobs. This was back when the Republicans were going on about how Nixon was innocent and it was a witchhunt.
This was in BC. Now in Ontario, the right is freaking out about sex ed being forced on kids.
(Score: 2) by bzipitidoo on Thursday May 17 2018, @12:25PM (1 child)
My family moved to Texas when I was in grade school. One of the nicknames for the region is the "Bible Belt", and it wasn't long before we ran into perhaps the most obnoxious of the mainstream Bible thumpers, the Southern Baptists, who feel much too free to declare you're going to Hell if you aren't putting on a big show of piety, never mind what anyone really thinks. In the 1970s, Texas had these Blue Laws forbidding a great deal of business on Sunday. Most stores had to close, but there were some weird exceptions. For instance, a hardware store could be open and sell nails and screws but not hammers and screwdrivers, or perhaps it was hand tools could be sold but not power tools. Some time in the early 1980s, the Blue Laws were repealed.
As I recall one of the reasons for such a late introduction to sex ed was the newness of the program at that time. Would've had it earlier, maybe 9th grade, but they'd only started it that year so we got a "better late than never" class to cover things we might have missed while picking it up on our own. They probably were soon forced to see that 9th grade is still too late.
(Score: 2) by dry on Friday May 18 2018, @02:54AM
The part of BC I currently live in is also known as the "Bible Belt", especially the next city over. Same thing, used to be lots of weird rules about Sunday shopping, go into a store and they'd have the book section closed off and other weird things. That was quite a while back and the whole Province had a few rules about Sunday shopping, in particular no alcohol, which meant making beer runs down to the Washington. Luckily the border used to be pretty open back then.
I'd guess they were very reluctant to allow sex ed here and I know they freaked when the Province pushed homosexual rights and also were very reluctant to allow the needle exchange programs to protect users (and others) health. They also made the news when they dumped chicken shit on a homeless camp. Gives a very bad view on Christians.