r/todayilearned • u/AhmedMostafa16 • 3d ago

TIL that in 18th century England, people would pay to attend Bedlam, a private lunatic asylum, to watch the mentally ill as entertainment

https://retrospectjournal.com/2024/03/24/bedlam-the-mental-asylum-that-became-londons-top-tourist-attraction/
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u/Stanford_experiencer 3d ago

Regardless of that….

There's no regardless. The entire point of everyone talking about this is whether those images constituted illegal material. Not that it was distasteful.

Jailbait was a legitimate sub that you could just find by going through the sub list. Default or not that shit was up, had moderators and had a community.

I don't understand what you mean by legitimate. There was a subreddit that hosted photos of dead children, in part as protest to other subreddits being removed - that is also legitimate, by your same criteria.