Giggles, Grins, and Reflections: Shocking? True Historical Facts

Monday, January 6, 2014

Shocking? True Historical Facts

The first contraceptives were used in Ancient Egypt, and were lubricated vaginal suppositories made of acidic substances Don't think I would want to use those suppositories!

Guess even the Ancient Egyptians needed to get their horizontal tango on guilt-free sometimes! Just to give you a clue, the earliest record we have referring to this method dates back to about 1850 B.C.E.

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The best selling book of the 15th century was an erotic book called "The Tale of the Two Lovers", written by none other than Pope Pius II

Granted, the man was not inducted until 23 years after his romance was published, but still! Just imagine if Pope Francis came out and told all of us that he was actually the one who wrote "Fifty Shades of Grey". Now get that image out of your head...double dawg dare ya! LOL

14 comments:

CygnetJanuary 6, 2014 at 11:01 PM
Rock on Pius II !! Sex is a good thing...I never did understand how we Catholics got labeled as prudes...LOLOLOL...maybe I am just an atypical Catholic...or maybe not...I'm gonna have to check out "The Tale of Two Lovers" and see. Even popes have lives before they become pope (grin). Thanks for the book suggestion

Not sure what to say about the contraceptives, except, were they effective?
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Ami StarsongJanuary 7, 2014 at 4:58 AM
It makes you clench up just to think about it! Yuck! But because I am not a scientist, nor a biologist, I don't actually know whether vaginas are acid or alkaline, so presumably if the lubricant was only mildly acid, it probably did its job as well as some of the stuff around the shelves these days. I do know that condoms have been around for thousands of years and that they were made of the same intestinal skin that we now use to make sausages. (Well, we do here in the UK at least!)

As for popes - don't get me started on that one! I remember how well some of the nuns used to entertain visiting priests at the convent I attended. And our local priest once drank my father out of whisky, and believe me, that was an Olympic task!

Many hugs
Ami
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RozJanuary 7, 2014 at 4:58 AM
Interesting facts Cat! OMG, no I can't get that image out of my head!

Hugs,
Roz
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IrisheyJanuary 7, 2014 at 5:16 AM
I prefer the image of the Pope writing 50 Shades to the acidic vaginal suppositories. Bleh. Lol!
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Aimless RamblingJanuary 7, 2014 at 9:15 AM
Well, the pope was a bouncer, so who knows, he probably had many tales to tell.

Acidic suppositories, that had to feel good NOT
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AnonymousJanuary 7, 2014 at 9:22 AM
That's funny. I love historical facts. I wish my history class in highschool had been this interesting! I would have made an A!
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AnonymousJanuary 7, 2014 at 10:39 AM
Oh.my.
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