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Actually, if you've ever watched that History of Sex show, it's really fascinating. It goes across all these different ages and it talks about all these diffent aspects of sex and sexuality. Like that men used to belive that they only had a certain amount of semen that had to last them their whole life, and was in fact a part of their life force. Men who died "of old age" young or were lethargic in their old age were oftentimes believed to have died because they wasted to much sperm and didn't have enough, or sometimes any left, so for a while it was the fashion to wear any one of these differnt kinds of belts that would stop a guy from getting an erection with various methods such as a lever being attatched to his p***s so that when it rises it plucks pubic hairs until the pain makes the erection fade, or just sort of sock tube things that the p***s would be inserted into that would be filled with ice water at all times, and would just be worn with the underwear.

Of course, at the same time, women were encouraged to wear these sort of chastity savers. I don't remember what they were actually called, but they also had a bunch of different types and a girl was expected to insert it into her v****a every day and it would be designed to cut off anything that entered into it, or it would have a neddle at the end that could be filled with anything from poison to a tranquilizer to protect the girl from rape. Didn't last very long as most women didn't like having needles and razors inside of their vaginas like that.

Also, similar to the concept that a man's semen was his life force, people believed that a woman who was in hysterics or had the vapors was suffering from a spirit that was able to attack her because she was the weaker sex (as evidenced by Eve being the one to bring about the fall of Man) and because of that link to Eve the hysterics were the result of that spirit overflooding her body with sexual desires (which women weren't supposed to have, or were supposed to repress because they had to fight the wanton behaviour passed down to them from Eve) and so many doctors would treat their patients by "massaging" them until they had an orgasm or just flat out having sex with them.

It's really a neat show, you should watch it. Oh, and what's that other really good one on the history channel? Conquest! That's it. Each episode you learn all about the fighting styles, startegies, weapons etc. or two different people who were warring at the time, and a two groups of people learn to fight as their respective group would, then, at the end of the episode, they go into "battle" with each other fighting as the people would have and see who wins. It's really neat.

Gods, I wish I could remember which Roman emperor it was. I know they were all known for being lascivious across genders, but there was one in the a few generations after Ceaser, when the lead poisoning and interbreeding were starting to show their effects, who would tie young boys up to a post, put on a lion skin (and nothing else if memory holds) and "maul" them. Was it Tiberias? Or maybe it was Calligula?

Yeah. And then, when she killed off all the virtuous peasent girls, she started a manners school. And people actually sent their daughters to her despite all the rumors. Mmm stupidity.

She also invented honey torture and perfected the iron maiden.

Don't mind me, I know odd criminal history facts.

Are these random facts?


- In some towns in New England, pirates who have retired (forcibly by mutineers or not) ended up becoming politicans and law enforcers. Several respectible families actually had pirates as their founding fathers.

- The odd bump on most maps of the state of Minnesota is actually a map-maker's error, which is why the land is neither considered Canadian nor American.

- There were three presidents and one king before Washington was elected into office and the Consitution was made. And the king was not the king from England, but a native of the U.S.

- Custer was called 'Morning Star' by the natives and was considered to be a wolf in man's skin. Most natives of the time felt he was possessed by an evil ghost because of his cruelity.

A box of iron shaped like a woman with the entire interior covered in large spikes. A person is placed inside of it and the whole thing is closed, thus driving the spikes into the person so depending on weight, the person would die either from a spike piercing a vital organ or from bleeding to death. The Inqusition used it to torture supposed witches among other people.

Here's one:

Newton was known for his experiments with gravity, but he also did experiments with vision and the refraction of light and how it worked within the eye itself. In order to test how this worked, he would stick needles into his eyes at different points to see how it changed what he was seeing.

he did this repeatedly over the course of his daily studies, which lasted for about 2 years. eek

xd . I can just see it. Peasant parents begging theirdaughters to have sex so they wouldn't get killed. XD