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This society standard was based on paradoxical arguments: first, certain texts might corrupt women’s innocent mind, and therefore, diminishing their value as women, and second, as women they were strangely having too little resistance to emotionally provocative material.
These arguments had their foundations from three hundred years ago: renaissance society believed that reading an inappropriate text might lead women to sexually and morally astray, both in imagination and reality, and distract them from developing intellectually and spiritually.
Feel free to use if you just want to post this as a reaction image any time some fancops asserts that they think smut fanfiction will cause people to commit sexual crimes, or argues they’re not a puritan when you call them one.
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