Old Josh and the Civil War Folly Flock (Chapater Nine of, "The Last Plantation")
Old Josh’s Civil War Folly Flock
(or, the Birds and the Bees)
Chapter No: 9
Old Josh and the Mule train
“It was in those far off days,” said Cole Abernathy, to his son Langdon, one evening when he and Cole Abernathy outside of the Plantation House, sat on the steps in the chilled air (fall of 1966, Langdon seventeen years old now, talking about going into the Army again, the Vietnam Conflict had started).
“It was, Josh’s Great Grandfather in the 1860s, Old Josh the first, when he went for those six months driving mules for the Army, with the military he ran into many things, and back then back 100-years ago or so—as it might not seemed odd today, but did back then, a woman was to be celibate or have a dozen kids and die normally of childbirth, somewhere along the road, and many a soldier, or even family man, wore out his share of wives in a life time.
“Well,
Old Josh fell into a colony of women and men during the Civil War, that he said, prohibited both love and monogamy, but if a male wanted to have sex within the group a female, he simply asked her, or had someone else ask her for him, and they went into a private room, and made love, in particular he mentioned the Oneida Colony, and some of the young soldiers wanted to go AWOL, to join the Colony, along with other colonies of that time and day.”
“We have such Colony’s nowadays I’ve read about them pa,” said Langdon.
“But let me finish what Silas, told his son Josh, which the old Josh, told Silas, and I am now telling you, it was in the 1860s this took place, and all the way to about 1880; anyhow, if the couple agreed, they retired to a private groom, I think I said that already, and this helped the soldiers at times when they ran into these so called colonies, and it helped the young men of the times from ejaculation I suppose, you do know what that is son, right? (Langdon nods his head yes) and the women were not limited to one orgasm, which at times I suppose can be a real frustrating experience. So after the sex the couple returned—or couples, if it was couple sex—to their separate rooms, perhaps some pillow talk in-between, and between several couples of the colony and a few visiting soldiers, you had couple-bonding, especially if the soldiers had their future wives that belonged to the community.
“The complexity of marriage was abandoned for this commune sex, which was organized for the most part. Old Josh must have thought it the strangest thing, nowadays folks think it a new deranged obsession that is taking place among the young folk, when the subject of commune living becomes the subject of conversation, but it is old stuff, bringing brought up again, I don’t say it is right, but it just is, especially in California. Who knows, maybe we even have some of those groups over here in North Carolina. Anyhow, the birth rate of such colonies was actually very low. The folks of the commune felt the sexual please of all this was simply a divine gift; opportunity was for both male and female or couples. Men often told their superiors when in the military surroundings, after their adventure, reported might be a better word, and so reported satiation after an hour of coitus. The women even signed a manifesto, indicating they belonged to nobody, only themselves, but acknowledged belonging to God. And again, old Josh had the hardest of times to understanding that.
Of course what you don’t hear about is the massive sexual related diseases that plagued the Army during those days, as it went from one location to another, and this was a fear within the communes also, for loose women in those days followed the soldiers wherever they went and sold themselves also, built tent cities a mile or so away from the soldiers. So what I’m really trying to tell you Langdon, in a nutshell, is if you go into the military, and as these years pass on, you seem to want to, play it safe if you have to play at all, you do understand what I am saying do you not?”
“I understand pa, I’ll be careful,” remarked Langdon.
(or, the Birds and the Bees)
Chapter No: 9
Old Josh and the Mule train
“It was in those far off days,” said Cole Abernathy, to his son Langdon, one evening when he and Cole Abernathy outside of the Plantation House, sat on the steps in the chilled air (fall of 1966, Langdon seventeen years old now, talking about going into the Army again, the Vietnam Conflict had started).
“It was, Josh’s Great Grandfather in the 1860s, Old Josh the first, when he went for those six months driving mules for the Army, with the military he ran into many things, and back then back 100-years ago or so—as it might not seemed odd today, but did back then, a woman was to be celibate or have a dozen kids and die normally of childbirth, somewhere along the road, and many a soldier, or even family man, wore out his share of wives in a life time.
“Well,
Old Josh fell into a colony of women and men during the Civil War, that he said, prohibited both love and monogamy, but if a male wanted to have sex within the group a female, he simply asked her, or had someone else ask her for him, and they went into a private room, and made love, in particular he mentioned the Oneida Colony, and some of the young soldiers wanted to go AWOL, to join the Colony, along with other colonies of that time and day.”
“We have such Colony’s nowadays I’ve read about them pa,” said Langdon.
“But let me finish what Silas, told his son Josh, which the old Josh, told Silas, and I am now telling you, it was in the 1860s this took place, and all the way to about 1880; anyhow, if the couple agreed, they retired to a private groom, I think I said that already, and this helped the soldiers at times when they ran into these so called colonies, and it helped the young men of the times from ejaculation I suppose, you do know what that is son, right? (Langdon nods his head yes) and the women were not limited to one orgasm, which at times I suppose can be a real frustrating experience. So after the sex the couple returned—or couples, if it was couple sex—to their separate rooms, perhaps some pillow talk in-between, and between several couples of the colony and a few visiting soldiers, you had couple-bonding, especially if the soldiers had their future wives that belonged to the community.
“The complexity of marriage was abandoned for this commune sex, which was organized for the most part. Old Josh must have thought it the strangest thing, nowadays folks think it a new deranged obsession that is taking place among the young folk, when the subject of commune living becomes the subject of conversation, but it is old stuff, bringing brought up again, I don’t say it is right, but it just is, especially in California. Who knows, maybe we even have some of those groups over here in North Carolina. Anyhow, the birth rate of such colonies was actually very low. The folks of the commune felt the sexual please of all this was simply a divine gift; opportunity was for both male and female or couples. Men often told their superiors when in the military surroundings, after their adventure, reported might be a better word, and so reported satiation after an hour of coitus. The women even signed a manifesto, indicating they belonged to nobody, only themselves, but acknowledged belonging to God. And again, old Josh had the hardest of times to understanding that.
Of course what you don’t hear about is the massive sexual related diseases that plagued the Army during those days, as it went from one location to another, and this was a fear within the communes also, for loose women in those days followed the soldiers wherever they went and sold themselves also, built tent cities a mile or so away from the soldiers. So what I’m really trying to tell you Langdon, in a nutshell, is if you go into the military, and as these years pass on, you seem to want to, play it safe if you have to play at all, you do understand what I am saying do you not?”
“I understand pa, I’ll be careful,” remarked Langdon.
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