From: Adam Flinton 

Judy Folkenberg wrote:

>
> Gene McAloon wrote:
>
>
>>>>It is rather like the American Old South. The black slaves
had to be kept
in
>>
>>their place of course, but that didn't necessarily mean kept out of the
master's
>>bed.  It is hugely amusing, all of it.
>
>
> You're absolutely right.  I hadn't thought of it that way.
>
> What's ironic with these class distinctions (and I'd include past American
slaves) is
> that while the lower or servant class in Britian or the slaves in America
couldn't
> share tea in the parlor with the ruling class, they could share a bed--and
engage in
> a very intimate act.
>

Same as std "maids" & other home helps in today's America
(& UK) esp if they are  "illegal immigrants".

Go ask a philipino maid if she's allowed to take tea with her employers.

Adam

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