r/todayilearned • u/AhmedMostafa16 • 6d 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/Mama_Skip 5d ago

I've been on reddit a long, long time. I can assure you, that sub was never default. Idk exactly the content, but it was known about as a problem sub, even more than places like r/clopclop or r/spacedicks and one of the first subs to go private.

Also, I'm not looking it up but last I heard it was still private meaning it might still exist in some capacity for those that can access it.

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u/DwinkBexon 5d ago

Jailbait has been banned for a very long time now. I wouldn't be surprised if private subs along the same lines exist that no one talks about publically, but Jailbait itself is long gone.

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u/GodwynDi 5d ago

Because actual jailbait counts as child porn, and however lax some things are, that one will still get the government involved.

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u/temalyen 5d ago

If you try to go to the sub, you get a message saying it's banned because it threatens the "structural integrity of the greater Reddit community." ie, it'll get us raided if the government finds out about it.

I've been here forever (sort of, the site was already 8 years old when I registered this account, some people have been around longer than me for sure) and it was already banned when I showed up.

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u/GodwynDi 5d ago

Apparently I've been here 12 years, and never saw anything like that.