Tsar'-devitsa again

[Robert Chandler]

Dear Paul, and all,

Pual Gallagher writes,
> Russian morality (then or now,
> I'm not sure) must be very different from mine if it considers sex with
> a sleeping woman "honorable." What am I missing here? We would call it
> "rape" and send the guy to jail.
I would have thought it went without saying that Russian morality as
reflected in narodnye skazki is hugely different from your own - probably
more different than any of us can imagine.

All the best,

R.

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