The good old day were a picayune naughty …
1.In 1745, Benjamin Franklinwrotea now-famous letter to a young man who was asking for advice on ways to control his sexual urges. Firstly, Franklin told him the proper solution was to marry; however, he also provided supplementary counsel on how to take a mistress in case the reader did not choose to marry.
2.According to the bookSex at Dawn,by 1917, there were more vibrators in American households than electric toasters.
3.Even though it may sound like something out of a Tim Burton movie, Mary Shelley, the author ofFrankenstein, did indeedloseher virginity on her mother’s grave.
4.Sexually transmitted infectionsposeda significant problem for the US Army and Navy during World War II. So much so that the Army even referred to STIs as “the enemy in your pants.”
5.WhenLes Misérablesauthor Victor Hugo died in 1885, all of the brothels in Parisclosedto allow the sex workers a day of mourning.
6.The ancient Romans had so much sex that they literally made a plant go extinct.
7.Women in the Medieval Era used a variety of methods to “counterfeit” their virginity.
8.Wolfgang Amadeus Mozarthada crude sense of humor and often told poop jokes, and enjoyed composing bawdy songs for his friends.
9.The early American colonists weren’t very opposed to unmarried teenaged couples sharing a bed.
10.Broomsticks first becameassociatedwith witches due to their supposed use of hallucinogenic compounds or “brews.”
11.The father of microbiology, Anton van Leeuwenhoek, discovered sperm by examining his own semen…and was immediatelyfreaked out.
12.Graham crackers wereinventedfor very different reasons than you might think…
13.And finally, circling back around to the horny ancient Romans: Penises wereeverywherein Ancient Rome.
