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full_metal_ox ([personal profile] full_metal_ox) wrote in [community profile] agonyaunt 2025-03-21 06:10 am (UTC)

And also... when I was becoming a teenager I was told that one of the reasons I should Guard My Chastity [tm] is that once I had sex with one boy I had no standing to turn any others down.

An attitude expressed by William Herbert, 3rd Earl of Pembroke, towards Mary Fitton, whom he knocked up and refused to marry:

Then this advice, fair creature, take from me:
Let none pluck fruit, unless he pluck the tree;
For if with one, with thousands thou’lt turn whore;
Break ice in one place and it cracks the more.

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