I also think avoidance of pleasures like wine must be linked to avoidance of sex and mistrust of women.
If you look at the roots of anti-drug propaganda, including alcohol prohibition (before the "leads to crime" and "generally unhealthy" issues were seized upon) it largely revolves around the idea that intoxicants will lead women into lustfullness and wantoness (and more specifically that it would lead white women into lustful and wanton relations with men of other races).
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Date: 2004-05-21 03:01 pm (UTC)If you look at the roots of anti-drug propaganda, including alcohol prohibition (before the "leads to crime" and "generally unhealthy" issues were seized upon) it largely revolves around the idea that intoxicants will lead women into lustfullness and wantoness (and more specifically that it would lead white women into lustful and wanton relations with men of other races).