Fucking in 1680!

[JackLuis]

Long before Victoria's reign the books stores carried fuck books. Here is one of them scanned and preserved for the ages.

"The School of Venus, or the ladies delight: Reduced into rules of Practice ..."

Also "The Internal Clitoris" for more background on the subject.

Also "10 Fascinating Things About Sex, Lust and Love You Probably Didn't Know"

5) The seven year itch may not be a myth
Originally made famous in the 1955 film by the same name, the phrase "seven-year-itch" is used to describe the tendency for someone to become unsatisfied with their partner or marriage after a period of seven years, at which point they may feel an urge to move on.

If you're measuring by way of divorce, the myth of the seven year itch may not be a myth after all; according to the 2009 U.S. Census Bureau, the median duration of first marriages that end in divorce is 7.9 years.

 

[3113]

"Lordfhips?" "Paffed?" "Claffes?" "Eagernfs" "Exercifes"...how do you read this friggin' thing? All the "f's" are getting in the way of the fucking

 

[oggbashan]

"Lordfhips?" "Paffed?" "Claffes?" "Eagernfs" "Exercifes"...how do you read this friggin' thing? All the "f's" are getting in the way of the fucking

They're not 'f's if you look closely. The crossbar doesn't go all the way across.

They are 's's. They're getting in the way of the sucking.

Latin erotica is worse, especially the abbreviated form of Latin. They didn't have a 'u', so fucking reads as fvcking, and cunt as cvnt. Perhaps a vagina was actually a uagina?

 

[3113]

They're not 'f's

Yes, I know, Og. Hence all the smiles. Joking, don't ya know

 

[voluptuary_manque]

No surprise, really. It has been a popular activity for a very long time, after all. Never did go out of fashion . . .

 

[3113]

No surprise, really. It has been a popular activity for a very long time, after all. Never did go out of fashion . . .

Are you sure? There were those Commonwealth years starting in 1649 when the Puritans said no one was allowed to have any fun

 

[driphoney]

Are you sure? There were those Commonwealth years starting in 1649 when the Puritans said no one was allowed to have any fun

My understanding is blurry and I hate to ruin a good stereotype an’ all, but didn’t those Puritans chug a lot of ale? No fun?

 

[emap]

Puritans were quite strict on no sex before marriage. More or less why in this country you can watch violence on TV all day long, but one butt cheek was R rated and not allowed on TV until two decades ago.

If memory serves Puritans were fairly close to Muslims on this, women are not allowed alone with a man who is not related. Having sex with a man she is not married to is adultery so on so forth. Repressive really doesn't come close to how they wanted to look.

Salem Witch Trials was killing of sluts and women the men wanted to be sluts but were not. Some were actually the wife of a man who decided he liked the younger slut he had been fucking better.

 

[robertreams]

In case you didn't ever notice: Those who scream loudest about SIN are doing the weirdest things. Whenn they get caught then they say, Ah yes but I am Christian or muslim or hindu or zoroastriaan or, etc. so i am forgiven and saved, but the est of you naughty mother fuckers are going to hell

 

[oggbashan]

My understanding is blurry and I hate to ruin a good stereotype an’ all, but didn’t those Puritans chug a lot of ale? No fun?

In the City of Canterbury, Kent there was a famous court case because the Commonwealth Government had banned celebration of Christmas.

Several citizens were arrested for celebrating Christmas with wassailing and dancing in the street. They were brought before the local court and prosecuted. The only penalty available to the judge was the death penalty. The judge directed that they should be found guilty because the evidence against the defendants was overwhelming.

The jurors of local citizens refused to find their fellow citizens guilty. Their verdict was effectively "We don't know" when the only options they should have had was either guilty or not guilty.

The jurors were discharged, a new trial set, and the new jury answered exactly the same. The jury were thrown into jail along with the accused. But they still refused to find their fellow citizens guilty.

A riot started which broke open the prison, released the jurors and those accused of celebrating Christmas. All of them went into hiding.

The Commonwealth Government sent troops to Canterbury to punish the City. The Council was fined a massive amount for allowing disorder on their streets and large parts of the City Walls were demolished so that Canterbury couldn't defy the army again.

But the Canterbury jurors had reaffirmed the principle that a jury was independent and could decide what it wanted, no matter what the judge directed.

 

[StrangeLife]

But the Canterbury jurors had reaffirmed the principle that a jury was independent and could decide what it wanted, no matter what the judge directed.

And demonstrated that if you mess with our christmas you're heading for trouble.

 

[voluptuary_manque]

However, within the marriage, Puritans were quite in favor of sex both for procreation and because if feels good. This whole 'Puritan' myth is right up there with 'sexless Victorians' on the Dumb Howler index. It's the sort of thing that gets repeated by people who get all their information from the Internet.

 

[oggbashan]

However, within the marriage, Puritans were quite in favor of sex both for procreation and because if feels good. This whole 'Puritan' myth is right up there with 'sexless Victorians' on the Dumb Howler index. It's the sort of thing that gets repeated by people who get all their information from the Internet.

There were Puritans and Puritans.

Some of those who were on the Parliamentary side in the English Civil War were extreme fanatics who destroyed the fittings, fabric and stained glass of many ancient Churches because they were 'idolatrous'. Some sects were so extreme that even Cromwell had them suppressed. Other Puritans were sober, upright substantial citizens who just wanted the restoration of law and order after a bloody war.

 

[voluptuary_manque]

Oh, sorry. I was referring to the New England Puritans, some years afterwards.

 

[oggbashan]

Oh, sorry. I was referring to the New England Puritans, some years afterwards.

I thought you might have been.

They were a subset of the more reasonable English Puritans.

One of my local bookselling colleagues used to specialise just in Protestant polemic - books written by Protestants before, during and immediately after the English Civil War attacking others for their religious beliefs.

They went on and on for hundreds of pages attacking each other over some tiny difference in doctrine, calling each other every foul name they could think of.

Compromise, compassion, tolerance? Those traits seemed absent.

They sound like some of the General Board.

 

[voluptuary_manque]

Or modern day Fundies, Jihadis, and Evangelical Vegans!

 

[Tyro999]

Evangelical Vegans. Ghods save me from them!