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RE: https://social.coop/@CaitlinWaddick/117361048106557305
Droit du seigneur—the claimed right to rape of upper class men/rulers—goes back a *very* long way, bronze age or earlier: it's in the Epic of Gilgamesh.
Totally not surprised that they still practice it today, but furtively rather than openly.
@cstross Depending on the interpretation, droit du seigneur was always satirical rather than normative?
@sabik The claim that it was a *law* conferring a right of nobility was satirical, but you don't generally satirize something that isn't happening! It implies it was so common that there was widespread awareness of it.
@cstross
I mean, it may have always been done furtively rather than openly, even if (then as now) there's widespread awareness
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@cstross It's so weird that English uses a French expression that is different from the French version, «droit de cuissage» which is more explicit…