Tea at Trianon: Blaming Eve in the Age of Porn

John Wilson Croker on Marie-Antoinette

"We have followed the history of Marie Antoinette with the greatest diligence and scrupulosity. We have lived in those times. We have talked with some of her friends and some of her enemies; we have read, certainly not all, but hundreds of the libels written against her; and we have, in short, examined her life with– if we may be allowed to say so of ourselves– something of the accuracy of contemporaries, the diligence of inquirers, and the impartiality of historians, all combined; and we feel it our duty to declare, in as a solemn a manner as literature admits of, our well-matured opinion that every reproach against the morals of the queen was a gross calumny– that she was, as we have said, one of the purest of human beings."

~from History of the Guillotine by John Wilson Croker, 1844

Edmund Burke on Marie-Antoinette

"It is now sixteen or seventeen years since I saw the queen of France, then dauphiness, at Versailles; and surely there never lighted on this orb, which she hardly seemed to touch, a more delightful vision. I saw her just above the horizon, decorating and cheering the elevated sphere she had just begun to move in, glittering like a morning star full of life and splendor and joy. Oh, what a revolution....Little did I dream that I should have lived to see such disasters fall upon her, in a nation of gallant men, in a nation of men of honor and of cavaliers! I thought ten thousand swords must have leaped from their scabbards, to avenge even a look which threatened her with insult. But the age of chivalry is gone; that of sophisters, economists, and calculators has succeeded...."

~Edmund Burke, October 1790

Wednesday, September 24, 2025

Blaming Eve in the Age of Porn

From The Feminist Turned Housewife:

Porn addiction is not about lack of sex. It’s about lust, disordered desire, and self-centeredness. Telling a wife that more sex will fix his porn habit is like telling her to feed her husband more steak so he’ll stop sneaking fast food garbage. The issue isn’t hunger. It’s appetite, twisted, impulsive, addictive appetite.
We don’t tell the wife of an alcoholic, “Maybe if you poured his drinks for him, he wouldn’t go to the bar.” We recognize that enabling addiction doesn’t cure it, it makes it worse. So why would we tell wives to “enable” their husband’s lust and call it a solution?
Research consistently shows that many men addicted to porn still have regular sex with their wives, sometimes even frequent. But it doesn’t stop them. Why? Because porn isn’t about intimacy. It’s about control and fantasy.
Telling a woman to just “give him more” is blaming her for his sin. It excuses selfishness and reduces marriage to a service contract, not a covenant of mutual love and faithfulness. Porn is a moral and spiritual issue. It requires repentance, and accountability. (Read more.)