I would think it depends. If you KNOW they are cursed to sleep forever until kissed by a certain person, and think that person could reasonably be you- and you don’t kiss them for your own gratification- then it’s basically just the same as CPR. if you don’t know they are cursed and just kiss a random sleeping person... yeah. That’s not cool. I mean- is that the point here? That it’s ok to kiss or fondle sleeping people because they MIGHT be cursed and MAYBE the only way to break it is a kiss or a couple fingers up their butt? Because I think- statistically- the number of people who die from physical contact based curses because no one put it on them while they were out- weighed against allowing a universal defense to sleep fondling/kissing/etc as an attempt to cure a curse....
I mean.... we can’t really excuse making sexual advances on sleeping people because they MIGHT be cursed, and where we allow sleeping folks to be handled like that because of a curse, I think the burden lies on the person trying to break the curse to prove that there was one. So really it’s all about wether there is actually a curse, wether it is known there is a curse, and wether the person is trying to break that curse, or they’re just taking what they can get from sleeping folks.
In the original story he straight up impregnates her in her sleep, then comes back to do it again. It's only because one of fairies looking after her babies (twins) accidently allows the baby to suck on Sleeping Beauty's thumb (instead of her breast) that she ever wakes up.
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(The kid sucks out the splinter that had put her into her coma in the first place - something apparently no one in the Kingdom bothered trying before abandoning her in the woods)
Oh it gets better. WHen he comes back the second time sleeping beauty has already named their kids "sun and moon" because she has no bloody idea where they came from.
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After her romantic-rapist explains things to her they decide they like each other. Only he leaves out the part where he's married.
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His wife finds out about sleeping beauty and the kids and decides the only thing to do is kidnap the children, and have them cooked and served to their father in his next meal.
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After which she tries to kill sleeping beauty as well (burning her alive iirc). The king intervenes and has his wife killed instead. He also tries to kill the cook, but the cook reveals he had actually hidden the children instead of cooking them, so he gets to live
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And everyone still alive lives happily ever after I guess
Yeah. Even “happy endings” in ye Olsen times could be pretty damn depressing. I guess life in general was just a bit more depressing. Or maybe people didn’t yet dare, or couldn’t fathom or stomach to imagine fiction that was so much better than reality. We are somewhat guilty too. When you watch some action block buster there are usually all sorts of horrible implications that we just ignore. The people in the backgrounds during chases and gun fights and such, the physical therapy and injuries and such which logically would result from our “heroes” actions but are brushed off or ignored completely.
Yes, haha, there tended to be a surprising amount of sexual deviance, adultery, jealousy, cannibalism, and murder in the old children's tales of yore.
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And this is just the ones you've heard of. There's also stories like "DonkeySkin," which is sort of like Cinderella, except instead of an evil stepmother her father is alive and well and very much would like to marry "Cinderella."
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"Bearskin" which features a soldier left to starve to death after the war ends. And also the literal devil himself.
There is so much what in that and so little time. What did we teach our children....or what did our grandparents teach our parents...sort of. Anyways, scary thought is that you know all that.
There are different versions of the fairytale... In in one the prince just happens to kiss her at the 100 year mark, so she would have woken up anyway.
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(The kid sucks out the splinter that had put her into her coma in the first place - something apparently no one in the Kingdom bothered trying before abandoning her in the woods)
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After her romantic-rapist explains things to her they decide they like each other. Only he leaves out the part where he's married.
.
His wife finds out about sleeping beauty and the kids and decides the only thing to do is kidnap the children, and have them cooked and served to their father in his next meal.
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After which she tries to kill sleeping beauty as well (burning her alive iirc). The king intervenes and has his wife killed instead. He also tries to kill the cook, but the cook reveals he had actually hidden the children instead of cooking them, so he gets to live
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And everyone still alive lives happily ever after I guess
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And this is just the ones you've heard of. There's also stories like "DonkeySkin," which is sort of like Cinderella, except instead of an evil stepmother her father is alive and well and very much would like to marry "Cinderella."
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"Bearskin" which features a soldier left to starve to death after the war ends. And also the literal devil himself.