• Ricky Rigatoni@piefed.zip
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    19 days ago

    Most of them lived in a time where you could just rape a woman and her parents would pay you to marry her to keep them from being publicly shamed and ostracised.

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      For the latter part of that long time, the “payment” was the threat of being disappeared. See, “shotgun wedding”