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Originally posted by embers:
...in Shakespeare the term 'little death' meant orgas(i)m...

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Originally posted by PurpleBelly:

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Originally posted by embers:
...in Shakespeare the term 'little death' meant orgas(i)m...

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When did it change, and to what?

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Originally posted by PurpleBelly:

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Originally posted by embers:
...in Shakespeare the term 'little death' meant orgas(i)m...

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When did it change, and to what?

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sorry about the misspelling...I'm terrible at that...
my understanding is that our term orgasm came from the French orgasme...which came from a Greek term

and Shakespeare would not have heard of the word 'orgasm' at all, just the ephemism

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Originally posted by ScottishBrownCoat:

I would say that the Companion lifestyle could remind one of the "Sacred Prostitutes" of old Greco-Roman times. They would dwell in the temple and do what they did.
They were revered as being priestesses, and ushered Boys into Adulthood, fulfilled religious roles, etc.
It seems like the companion reflects this.

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Surely Shakespere would have known the ancient greek orgasmos???

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depends on who you read...
I thought Shakespeare was not actually that educated (so he may not have known Greek),
although he almost certainly knew French...
but it is an infinitely debatable point

which is not to say we shouldn't continue debating it (LOL)

of course my original point was just that in 500 years there are huge changes in everything...
it allows Joss a lot of room for creativity

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Originally posted by Zoot:
I think Atherton Wing makes it clearest when, when provoked, he says:

“Money changed hands. Makes her mine tonight. And no matter how you dress her up, she's still...“

and you just know there’s only one way to finish that sentence!!

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Surely Shakespere would have known the ancient greek orgasmos???

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depends on who you read...
I thought Shakespeare was not actually that educated (so he may not have known Greek),
although he almost certainly knew French...
but it is an infinitely debatable point

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Shakespeare's Latin that he uses in some of his plays (the only one I can think of is Love's Labour's Lost) isn't the most grammatically correct latin so I'd suspect if he knew any Greek it would only be a working sense of the language, and nothing very in depth.

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I thought Shakespeare was not actually that educated (so he may not have known Greek),

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Originally posted by Corncobb:
I rewatched "Heart of Gold" last night and thought it was strange that Inara was willing to call the brothel girls "whores". I couldn't see why she would think them so different to herself, just because she was registered and they weren't. If there is a religious element to the role of Companion that might explain it.

"Gorramit Mal... I've forgotten my line."

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Originally posted by Cybersnark:


Plus, he once described himself as having "small Latin, less Greek," which would probably be more telling if I knew exactly what was a "normal" middle-class education back then.

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