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The Following Is an Excerpt from Stephan Zweig's the World

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The following is an excerpt from Stephan Zweig's The World of Yesterday (Evaluating the Evidence 22.2) : "This 'social morality,' which on the one hand privately presupposed the existence of sexuality and its natural course, but on the other would not recognize it openly at any price, was doubly deceitful. While it winked one eye at a young man and even encouraged him with the other 'to sow his wild oats,' as the kindly language of the home put it, in the case of a woman it studiously shut both eyes and acted as if it were blind."
According to Zweig, in what way was the "social morality" of his day deceitful?


A) It decried the sexuality of the lower classes, while celebrating the sexuality of the elites.
B) It acknowledged the existence of sexuality, while at the same time denying young people of both sexes any outlet for their sexuality.
C) It encouraged men to be openly sexual, while at the same time encouraging women to keep their sexuality private.
D) It tacitly permitted sexual activity in young men, while at the same time pretending that young women were not sexual at all.

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