• starchylemming
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    9 days ago

    maybe thats why the victorians were stuck up prudes?

  • fenrasulfr
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    9 days ago

    So far as I know they washed themselves, they just stopped going to communal bath houses.

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      8 days ago

      Apparently English men were partly mad abojt vikings because they’d show up bathed and well-groomed and would take their wives. They told on themselves and didn’t get it.

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        Yep, also Napoleon was bathing every day and it was thought to be weird at the time.

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          His love letters though… (Don’t wash for three weeks my love)

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    9 days ago

    That seems like a highly appropriate post for a person using the handle ‘double suck’.

    • Track_Shovel@slrpnk.netOP
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      Men these days can be squeamish about giving a woman oral. My brother in Christ, imagine being a crusading knight and licking some unwashed heretic puss

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    9 days ago

    They literally pissed in the corner while wearing those things. Full access, no need to undress

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    9 days ago

    You think you would be wealthy enough for all those fancy clothes with many buttons?

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    I was listening to the podcast You’re Dead to Me, and they kind of covered this in a recent episode. Basically in the olden days you wouldn’t undo all 650 buttons, or maybe even any buttons, as people would have sex pretty much fully clothed. You’d almost never see a fully naked women, and in fact full nudity was seen as more promiscuous than sex.

    So they’d basically just lift up the dress, and you probably wouldn’t even smell much with how much clothes were between your nose and her genitals.

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    8 days ago

    Ladies would use talc infused with asbestos and lead to keep fresh down below.

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    8 days ago

    A clean unwashed coochie is one of life’s simple pleasures. Been with a few, will never forget them, those that know know.

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      8 days ago

      What! No no noooo. And we’ve got to wash our dicks too.

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    8 days ago

    If the throat cancer didnt get them all the other stuff certainly did.