Questions tagged [sex]
Division between male and female organisms inside one biological species. As **sexual intercourse** it is an act of copulation between them. Wider understanding could be attached to eroticism.
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In the days of slavery, were heterosexual interracial pairings more common with black men and white women, or black women and white men? [closed]
Of course, the anti miscegenation laws were in place that prohibited interracial marriage, so it must have been something that went on and so was a concern.
On that note, did miscegenation laws mainly ...
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Is there any evidence of heterosexual men being sexually attracted to women breasts pre-Victorian history? [closed]
I read some articles which say men's sexual attraction to breasts (during sex or casually) is because culture/society started it. One relevant article is this. Women were told to hide breasts and ...
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What relation do the early sexual experiences of Lolita and her classmates bear to the real experience of children in New England in 1947?
In the last pages of part 1 of Nabokov's Lolita the title character's abuser Humbert relates 12 year old Dolores's (Lolita is H's nickname for her) description of her own previous sexual experiences, ...
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Why would "loose women" give you bad health?
Many times over the years, I have heard in various contexts, in many different variations, basically the phrase/sentiment:
My secret to staying healthy is simply to never smoke, drink or use
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Which is the first, non-Western, (written) description of the female orgasm?
Which is the first, non-Western, (written) description of the female orgasm? Hildegard von Bingen wrote about around 1100, which is, AFAIK, the first known mention of it, but she was part of the ...
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Are there any medieval records of girls with large clitorises misidentified (and subsequently raised) as boys?
Several years ago, I read a piece of trivia in a popular science magazine1, which said pretty much exactly:
In the Middle Ages there were many cases where a newborn girl was born with a clitoris ...
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To prevent sex were men bound in bags or locked in beds?
I remember in the past, before marriage, a woman’s family would bind her man when he stayed with her in a sleeping bag or bed.
Essentially it would lock him into this bag/bed thing so he couldn’t ...
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Were there examples from Renaissance period of a relationship of erotic nature between a teacher and a student or during transmission of knowledge?
The context for my question is drawn from a movie on teaching history. The question per se, pertains to history. I hope that it was triggered by a movie scene is only seen as a context and not as a ...
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Which lover of a Russian Empress obtained the highest rank?
There were numerous well-known male lovers of Russian Empresses, particularly those of Catherine the Great. Such a role often meant receiving sumptuous gifts such as beautiful apartments, the status ...
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Treatment of homosexuals in Nazi Germany [closed]
I read that Nazi Germany only prosecuted gay men, not gay women. This really confuses me.
As to my understanding, the Nazis wanted to increase the Aryan population and exclusively gay men don't seem ...
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ِWhen did sexual life outside marriage became popular in Europe? and why? [closed]
In Christianity sexual life outside marriage is banned and for ages it was like that in Europe and the Western world, I want to know at which age this start to became popular that people will have ...
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The fate of children fathered by US Soldiers in the UK during WW2
As allied nations speaking a common tongue, I imagine there were a great number of liaisons between British women and American soldiers, airmen and sailors.
Most British men were serving overseas. ...
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When and how (why) did the idea that gender is not biological start [closed]
In my understanding the gender originally was based on the organs, there was cross dressing but it was considered a man dressing as a woman.
And latter this changed and gender became something ...
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Why were brothels legal? [closed]
Until fairly recently, brothels had been legal in most parts of the West for a long time. The same might be true of other "medieval societies" in other parts of the world with traditional values.
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Have wartime conditions traditionally decreased or increased consensual sexual activity in the young?
In joshbirk's Answer to the question Hogwarts: So why aren't the kids doing it?
he claims that wartime atmosphere would decrease sexual activity in the students:
Towards the end of the series / ...
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Were Puritans Prudes or Progressive?
I have recently encountered two independent assertions that Puritans were not prudes like I and most of society think they were. Either society's view of Puritans is revisionist, or the two sources I ...
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When did people understand where children come from?
What is the oldest source that people knew for sure what makes a woman pregnant?
For such a source I understand that that the author knew what a man and a woman did 9 months before giving birth and ...
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What was the scale of eroticism in Byzantine theater?
When reading the texts of saint John the Chrysostome i found a very severe criticism of theater because of 'nude harlots' that could be seen there. I have also read some fragments of Procopius' Secret ...
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Pedophilia in ancient Greek and Roman culture
This question is inspired by an answer to: When did homosexuality become unacceptable in Europe?
I have heard from many people that pedophilia was widely practiced in ancient Greek or Roman cultures. ...
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When did homosexuality become unacceptable in Europe?
In the ancient greek world male homosexuality was common and didn't attract the same scorn as it did even 100 years ago. So 2,000 years ago, it was acceptable, and 100 years ago it was unacceptable. ...
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Were Pope John Paul I's views anything that could imply a support for contraception? [closed]
Pope John Paul I was a short lived pope (only 33 days). There are rumours that he was assasinated.
Someone told me that he was quite liberal (as catholic popes can go), and some of his teachings/...
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