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And none of those situations are considered "intimate" so that is a difference. It is a major turn-off if you want to get intimate with someone and you get a whiff of a stinky armpit or stinky "down there".
I'm assuming, perhaps wrongly so, that oral sex wasn't a thing back in "ancient" times? Especially when regular bathing wasn't so common.
I'm assuming, perhaps wrongly so, that oral sex wasn't a thing back in "ancient" times? Especially when regular bathing wasn't so common.
There's plenty of ancient art depicting oral sex. Apparently the Romans frowned on it because they thought the mouth "pure" but it still happened, and other ancient cultures didn't have the same ideas.
I am not trying to generalize but I think we can all agree that people back then had worse hygiene than today. Today we have sanitizers, soap, shampoos and etc. I’m sure these things were available back then as well, but I think getting access to these products was a little more difficult today. Due to poverty and lack of technology.
We know people have been creating soap for over 3000 years from fat or oil mixed with ash. Producing basic soap is not difficult.
People could also bathe without using soap. My Greek ancestors would bathe and then apply scented oil to their bodies.
They may not have been as hygienic as we are, but they were not smelly brutes.
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My question is: How did people have sex back then with such terrible hygiene? Did their body odors of pubes, sweat, etc not turn each other off? Honestly, I can’t stand being around a smelly person for more than 30 seconds. I bet not a lot of people shaved their pubic hair either.
Did they really smell bad? These people would have understood things we are ignorant of today, so may well have used local products to mask bad body smells. Even if they did not, sex is a strong compulsion, and I doubt a few bad smells would stop people having sex.
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The weird thing is that people back then seem more perverted than today. If you look at Ancient Greek, Indian, etc art, it seems pretty sexual.
Was it sexual, or did they just have different standards of dressing? Yes, some of it was sexual, but not all of it.
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I heard in ancient Pompeii, people were so sex-obsessed that they had penis-shaped everything. From a random statue on the street, to a painting in the house. Everything has a picture of an erect penis. Is it just me or did people seem more perverted back then? I think the spread of Christianity and Islam has tamed people a little bit ?
Probably selective memory, there are many non-sexual images in Pompeii.
And to them, we may be the perverts. The Romans would have been shocked at the idea of oral sex, for example.
I think the penis symbols were predominantly signs the brothels used to draw in customers. But who knows erotic paintings and mosaics in the homes of the wealthy in villas have been uncovered. The penis symbols carved or painted goes way back in history as a fertility symbols even in the Neolithic era.
If you think the TV series Rome accurately depicted the lifestye of ancient Roman,then in one scene a guy said the best way to poison Caesar 's niece is to put the poison on M Anthony's dick as she dined on it often.
In another scene when Brutus asked his mother to leave Rome with him,his mother refused as she was in love with Caesar,Brutus asked his mother to get a stud slave in the market and get it over with .
Then in one scene Caesar's niece wants his son to eat the fresh gonads of a sheep as she found him not masculine enough?
are the gonads or *******,?thats where the male hormone is kept?
Did the ancient Chinese or Japanese have oral sex?
Never heard or seen in paintings or novels
and what about the Indians?
or the Turks?as they kept a harem of women
Did the ancient Chinese or Japanese have oral sex?
Never heard or seen in paintings or novels
and what about the Indians?
or the Turks?as they kept a harem of women
Japanese erotic art shows all sorts of oral sex. So does Indian erotic art, and things like the Kama Sutra.
It wasn't that dissimilar to now. The more affluent people would have access to more luxurious bath facilities and products. The poorer people wouldn't have been able to bathe as much.
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