During WWII, Norway was occupied by the Nazis. Resistance fighters gave the Nazis diarrhea via sardine cans.
The resistance fighters snuck into sardine-canning plants and instead of just sardines, filled the cans with croton oil – which happens to be a powerful laxative. The Nazis then sent the canned fish to their soldiers, some of whom were in submarines. NOT a pretty sight.
The Welsh didn’t actually have relations with sheep nearly as much as the records show.
When Wales joined the United Kingdom, they found a loophole in the laws regarding sheep – if you were caught stealing a sheep, your hand was cut off. If you were caught having relations with a sheep, just your finger went. So lots of sheep thieves just *said* they were sheep-lovers to avoid the harsher punishment.
Empress Wu Zetian would make visiting dignitaries “service” her to show her power.
She ruled China on her own, the first woman to do so in 3000 years, so she showed her authority over men who came to her audience by making them pleasure her with their mouths.
President Lyndon B. Johnson once pulled out his junk during an interview.
The reporter kept asking him about why American troops were in Vietnam, and Johnson brandished his, er, johnson and said “THIS IS WHY!”
Some of the gunpowder used in the American Revolution was made, in part, from pee.
The old-timey recipe for gunpowder – which was in short supply during revolutionary times – includes nitre, which could be made from soaking soil in human or animal urine and letting it dry.
President Warren G. Harding wrote highly graphic letters to his mistress, Carrie Phillips.
“Wouldn’t you like to get sopping wet out on Superior – not the lake – for the joy of fevered fondling and melting kisses?” Superior was the nickname Harding used for his, um, parts.
“Hysteria” was once a medical diagnosis that could be cured by climax, which led to the invention of the vibrator.
In the 19th and early 20th centuries, the treatment for “hysteria” (which was basically just any time a woman was acting “crazy”) was for the (male) doctor to essentially give her a hand job… so vibrators were invented to make the job easier for doctors.
Mozart once wrote a song called “Lick Me in the Ass.”
The composer was a big fan of scatological and dirty humor, and wrote a song for six voices called “Leck Mich im Arsch.” It was probably just a song his pals sang at parties, but still.
Vlad the Impaler, upon whom Dracula was loosely based, actually did impale people. But maybe not how you think.
He didn’t stake people through the heart – he impaled them through the butt. A large log would be sharpened, and a person being punished would be placed on top, naked. They would then slide down the log over a series of days.
Confessional booths were built to prevent priests from having relations with parishioners.
The screen between the priest and the person confessing was put in place to make sure the priests – who were supposedly celibate – didn’t sleep with the young women who came to confess their sins.
Benjamin Franklin wrote a pamphlet called “Fart Proudly.”
“Enquiry of learned Physicians, Chemists, &c. of this enlightened Age. It is universally well known, That in digesting our common Food, there is created or produced in the Bowels of human Creatures, a great Quantity of Wind.”
Catherine the Great had a servant “test out” men she liked the look of at parties.
Catherine the Great had a voracious sensual appetite, but before she got down to business, she had one of her servants check out the guy first – which had the added benefit of the servant finding out if the guy had any STDs.
Genghis Khan bedded so many women that 0.5% of the world’s population can trace their lineage to him.
That’s 16 MILLION people.
Artificial male parts have been around for a LONG time.
Although the word we use today for fake stiffies wasn’t used until the Renaissance, the crafting of artificial phalluses is a long-standing human tradition.
The Greeks baked hard bread sticks to use as adult toys.
They called them “olisbo-kollix” and would lube them up with olive oil to use them!
Prostitutes were so popular during the 1860s that a LOT of soldiers had STDs.
One report showed that out of 468,000 men checked, 188,000 had an STD. That’s FORTY percent.
Marriage was a business arrangement.
You could be punished for doing it in a position other than missionary in the Middle Ages.
The church sentenced anyone having anything but man-on-top, woman-on-bottom relations to three years’ penance. Sounds crazy, right? Well, there are laws in the United States TODAY that make some of these acts illegal. Have you broken any laws lately? 😉
The government of Holland provides some disabled citizens with a red-light district stipend.
A spouse-swapping game called the “putting-out-of-the-lights” game was practiced in Greenland.
Greenlandic people used to participate in a sort of spin the bottle orgy situation in which a number of married couples would gather, then the lights would be put out, then everyone would randomly get it on, then the lights would go back on. We’re sure somewhere in the world, this is still happening.
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