On 23 Sep 98, at 23:47, Stan Bernstein wrote:

> and it was an honor to have one's daughter deflowered by the king prior to
> her marriage to the boy next door. This state of affairs arguably obtained

I don't think Stan has seen Braveheart.

> rulers. There is no doubt in my mind that the old attitudes have _not_
> entirely died, there is something psychobiological about them but we no
> longer subscribe to or even remember the archaic rationale; somehow we're
> still hardwired with these adulatory responses to hypervirility of male
> rulers although in new versions of ROM this code is gradually being
> written out.

Really what a good read.  I just looked, Stan is an editor.

Which modern country was the first to be ruled my men and not kings?

Well I guess the only explanation is that I must have some of this 
new ROM :):):):)

Peter
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