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This is not what the historical record says at all, actually hilariously quite the opposite and this assumption is quite modern and common especially in the Wes
by ZunarJ5 3y ago
This is not what the historical record says at all, actually hilariously quite the opposite and this assumption is quite modern and common especially in the West.
https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2023-08-03/young-adults-less-sex-gen-z-millennials-generations-parents-grandparents https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2023-08-03/young-ad...
For one, quite famous historical example see the Kama Sutra. It does not take more than a quick Google search to find a million other examples, eg https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erotic_art_in_Pompeii_and_Herculaneum https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erotic_art_in_Pompeii_and_He...
Check out this AskHistorians thread. https://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/17zztg/how_common_was_casual_sex_throughout_history/ https://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/17zztg/how_c...
- swatcoder 3y agoWe're talking about a specific practice here, and in fact I rely on the lack of general prudeness to elaborate on my point in another reply. Because people have been getting it on quite creatively forever and because they were often writing about it (and because many older living people got around too), we can make reasonable -- if not authoritative -- suppositions about the specific things that people were getting up to in various communities at various times
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- genericacct 3y agoYou are totally correct. The practice is so old there is a latin word for it