medieval sex rulessyntonic_commaAugust 23 2007, 12:18:03 UTC
Seriously?
Seriously! This is what the Church was teaching about when and how to have sex. There's a whole lot of holy days blocked out there, and then you've got to hope your cycle doesn't block out any days that are left!
Married more than three days? This must have been a regional variant. It wasn't mentioned in the classes I took; rather, you were expected to get right to it that first night. In some places, you were expected to keep at it for a few days, and that would be the only vacation you got your whole life.
Is it daylight? I don't remember this one either, but average peons had tasks to keep them busy all day anyway.
Are you naked? That's right, you weren't supposed to be naked with each other!
Are you in Church? A couple of teachers remarked on this one, about why they would even need such a rule. You've got to conclude that with so many rules about when, people must not have been so shy about where, in general. (Or maybe it was the only place you could get some privacy, if you lived in a hovel.)
No fondling! Breasts are for babies! If your man's interested in breasts, he's a pervert!
Try not to enjoy it! If you enjoyed it, you were corrupting a sacrament. And that's a sin. The warped logical outcome of this was that if a man loved his wife too much, it was better for him to go have sex with a prostitute, because that was a lesser offense than defiling the sacred union with impious thoughts.Btw, how's your mom?
She's doing better, thanks. She still tires very easily, and she hates using the nebulizer (a device used to administer medication in forms of a liquid mist to the airways; commonly used in treating cystic fibrosis, asthma, and other respiratory diseases) to take some of her medications. She's never been one for drinking water, and she usually gets through the day on a few cups of tea. She needs to be drinking a lot more liquid, to help loosen up the mucus in her lungs so she can cough it up, and she's not doing that.
She's got friends and neighbors checking on her, which is good to know since her closest relatives (both her sons) live 5 hours away.
Seriously! This is what the Church was teaching about when and how to have sex. There's a whole lot of holy days blocked out there, and then you've got to hope your cycle doesn't block out any days that are left!
Married more than three days? This must have been a regional variant. It wasn't mentioned in the classes I took; rather, you were expected to get right to it that first night. In some places, you were expected to keep at it for a few days, and that would be the only vacation you got your whole life.
Is it daylight? I don't remember this one either, but average peons had tasks to keep them busy all day anyway.
Are you naked? That's right, you weren't supposed to be naked with each other!
Are you in Church? A couple of teachers remarked on this one, about why they would even need such a rule. You've got to conclude that with so many rules about when, people must not have been so shy about where, in general. (Or maybe it was the only place you could get some privacy, if you lived in a hovel.)
No fondling! Breasts are for babies! If your man's interested in breasts, he's a pervert!
Try not to enjoy it! If you enjoyed it, you were corrupting a sacrament. And that's a sin. The warped logical outcome of this was that if a man loved his wife too much, it was better for him to go have sex with a prostitute, because that was a lesser offense than defiling the sacred union with impious thoughts.Btw, how's your mom?
She's doing better, thanks. She still tires very easily, and she hates using the nebulizer (a device used to administer medication in forms of a liquid mist to the airways; commonly used in treating cystic fibrosis, asthma, and other respiratory diseases) to take some of her medications. She's never been one for drinking water, and she usually gets through the day on a few cups of tea. She needs to be drinking a lot more liquid, to help loosen up the mucus in her lungs so she can cough it up, and she's not doing that.
She's got friends and neighbors checking on her, which is good to know since her closest relatives (both her sons) live 5 hours away.
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