Sex In The Middle Ages: 10 Titillating Facts You Wanted To Know But Were Afraid to Ask


	Sex In The Middle Ages: 10 Titillating Facts You Wanted To Know But Were Afraid to Ask

swampfoxz

6-19-2009 2:08 PM

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6-19-2009 3:05 PM

tanyamm

I think sex in what ever form practiced by anyone anywhere has always been a favourite topic whether you're for it or against it. Love it or hate it it cannot be left alone.

6-20-2009 8:07 PM

chestnut501

Still afraid to ask.....

6-21-2009 12:09 PM

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Without the Christian church of <SPAN class="IL_LINK_STYLE">the Middle Ages</SPAN>, Sigmund Freud of the 19th century would have been out of work. Many of the deepest ideas and notions of sex that we hold today were formulated and laid down in <SPAN class="IL_SPAN"><INPUT type="hidden" name="IL_MARKER" />the Middle Ages</SPAN>, especially by the Church’s sometimes confused and other times severe pronouncements.
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<SPAN class="IL_LINK_STYLE">The Church</SPAN> had opinions and laws about every aspect of sex. Adultery and fornication in some cases were sins punishable by death, but for a time <SPAN class="IL_SPAN"><INPUT type="hidden" name="IL_MARKER" />the Church</SPAN> actually condoned prostitution, admitting that it was a necessary evil. And in the early part of </SPAN><SPAN class="IL_SPAN"><INPUT type="hidden" name="IL_MARKER" />the Middle Ages</SPAN>, priests were actually allowed to marry and have children.
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