Did you know that sex during the Medieval period was highly restricted and only certain things were allowed!?
It was recorded that a lot of restrictions were placed on sex. For example, only certain positions were allowed, and certain positions were allowed at specific times and for specific purposes! (If you were curious the positions that were frowned upon were basically anything other than missionary!) Even inside a marriage these were frowned upon, also oral sex and the woman being on top were not okay! A husband was not allowed to look at his spouse in such a way lust, like he would at a mistress or anything like that! Crazy!
Another interesting fact is that masturbation was even more frowned upon, and was considered one of the worst things a person could do because sex was not meant to be pleasurable. Sex was only meant for procreation, so if a person was masturbating they were enjoying the act of "sex" and this was really not okay!! Often times this would be considered and treated as a crime like adultery.
Just in case you were curious there are some fun facts!!
Why, Danielle, you are a wealth of information! Were these restrictions created by the church? If so I wonder what poor unfortunate soul had the duty to make certain people weren't doing the dirty (haha). Great job with the liveliness of your post.
ReplyDeleteWow! This is quite baffling to me! I never would have imagined that there would be restrictions on what positions people could do. I do not understand why it would matter if the marriage is between the man and the woman. It really shows how marriage has changed and how sex has changed over time.
ReplyDeleteGirls, thanks for taking the time and risk of reading this post! (haha) The restrictions were put in place by the church, I'm not sure which exact person had the oh so exciting job of enforcing and monitoring these restrictions. I was interested in this topic because of all the "penis envy" and penis references that were made in literature. Literature is sometimes highly sexual, but it was sort of a taboo topic which is interesting to me. I was also highly surprised there were such strict rules surrounding sex especially inside marriages!!
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