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The Birds and the Bees...Belong in the Woods

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My grandmother had two children. By two different fathers. Whom she never married. Automatically, I know what most will think. The same as most will think of a woman these days who passes through the same circumstances. But my aunt was born in 1918 and my father in 1931, and at that time, though not quite kosher, it was considered absolutely normal. The close your eyes, turn off the lights mentality toward sex really came into being when Franco came into power. At least in Galicia. Franco was a misogynist who imposed his and the Church's viewpoint that sex is only to be used within the marriage for procreation. That became the imposed viewpoint of the then emerging middle class, which is why for many years it's been considered a shame if a young woman gets pregnant out of wedlock, and why when that happens, she always has to marry the father to erase any dishonor, even if the couple are teenagers. Now things are changing, and though you're still considered loose if you sle...