• Clent@lemmy.world
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    18
    ·
    7 months ago

    Only because we’re still allowing prudish believed to dictate our lives.

    One doesn’t have that go back far in history to find a time when everyone in the family slept in the same bed.

      • Clent@lemmy.world
        link
        fedilink
        arrow-up
        8
        ·
        7 months ago

        Both.

        Poor people didn’t have a home with multiple rooms. Children weren’t shielded from the concepts of baby making to the extent that they are today.

        The idea that making a family isn’t family friendly is the result of recent cultural norms that are facilitated by our larger homes, cheaper beds, abundant bedding, whole home heating, etc.

        • KillingAndKindess
          link
          fedilink
          arrow-up
          3
          ·
          7 months ago

          In theory I wouldn’t care if it was normal and a necessity, but, prefer my bed to be to myself and my partner, as well as my room. Not cause of what the children might think, but because I like not having anyone else there. So good riddance to that.

          • Clent@lemmy.world
            link
            fedilink
            arrow-up
            1
            ·
            7 months ago

            Of course. We are products of our time.

            In previous times, even the richest of that time would rather have had a bed mate to keep them company in the darkness of the night.

        • KillingAndKindess
          link
          fedilink
          arrow-up
          1
          ·
          7 months ago

          Well, I for one am glad we have left that particular detail in the past more or less.