Did christianity lead to a major decline in the use of sex toys?
>>1285578
Thousands of years old and still no one wants to touch it with their bare hands.
>sex toys
Pre sure they would have used everything back then.
Imagine how many splinters they got.
>>1285578
It is interesting in that it is circumcised.
>>1288105
Or maybe the skin is just retracted like in every erection ready to fuck?
>>1285578
Nope. French women would go on pilgrimages to phallic rocks viewed as holy and fug 'em good.
Unfortunately my google-fu isn't good enough to find this online, but my source is The Discovery of France by Graham Robb.
>>1288139
>>1288229
Apologies for Android not knowing how to orient a fucking image
>>1288139
What a bunch of sluts, I guess frogs have always been loose.
>>1288243
I think it more has to do with being a townsperson in the middle of fucking nowhere that's barely been Christianized beyond taking pagan rituals and slapping new names on 'em.
European medieval peasants were in general, pretty filthy compared to the prototypical Christian morality we think of. The few records we have of peasant dances are... lewd, to say the least.
>>1288264
>>1288280
Frankly I don't know that much about it; my medievalist gf told me what she'd seen was pretty filthy.
Kind of the problem with this is that nobody cared about peasants enough to write about them so a lot of the dances you find online are more for nobility. And what nasty is often referenced with innuendo. For example, whenever you see a falcon with a man and a woman it means fuckin (Faucon - faux con- dick and vagoo), or here we have a unicorn symbolizing virginity getting stabbed by a dude's spear.
>>1288413
Let it be noted that faucon as a pun only really applied to vag, while the image of it, particularly when you take the hood into account, was often suggestive of a dick. There's images out there of women stroking the heads of falcons.
Here's something that's pretty blunt.
>>1288231
>a cross was embedded in the stone 1810
Woah.
There was still pagan stone-rites just 200 years ago or what?
Thats hard to believe on the other hand I remember reading from some british orientalist from the same time who claimed that people in rural arabia would visit stonecubes at night and in secrecy-named after preislaimic gods-if prayers to allah wouldnt have yielded results in freeing a relative from sickness.
>>1288105
It's not.
>>1288413
>>1288264
I don't think shes a historian, friend....
When you say "medievalist" the historian in me shoots up red flags and red flares.
Let's not get to thinking we think as they thought or that their society was as sexualized as ours.
They were more open about sex, of course, but this doesn't equate to a more promiscuous understanding of the sex life.
They were more comfortable about it so it was easier to write about it, or to tell about it.
It wasn't so "taboo", not a whole lot of "think of the children".
Though, we shouldn't mark them as a promiscuous peoples, to do that would be to apply that famous standard of Western Anthropology.
>everyone is relative to us thus our conclusions are correct
Even though in the attempt of one's "unbiased" pursuit, they are in fact doing something that only modern western anthropologists do; trying to understand society that is relative to themselves from their own uniquely western viewpoint that view point being the viewpoint of anthropological study.
>tfw no medievalist gf to lecture
>>1288661
You're making a lot of assumptions about what I'm saying here, bud.
