The most famous sexual myths in history

"We hide to make love and war is practiced in broad daylight". They say that John Lennon once said these words with great wisdom, and deep down, both concepts are more related than it seems.

We will all agree that sex moves the world, especially in our age of entertainment, therefore it is essential to review the sexual myths accompanying him. If we ask ourselves why it is possible to affirm that it is sex that moves the world, several answers can come to our mind. For instance: provides power, also historically Has made great empires burn to ashes: that public figures of great relevance lose their prestige for having made public their sexual relations. As we have seen in several cases in our ArgentinaXP articles, He managed to get people not recognized or with royal blood, to agree to the king's lover as he is the case of Madame de Pompadour, or even to Empress of the most important empire in history as Teodora did as an actress and a prostitute. 

Of course, since the human being is a sexual animal, sex has always accompanied him. Since we come from a natural generation, sex, one could say, is our foundation as existents. But in addition to the fact that sex is a condition for the possibility of the birth of all humans in history (only now are there non-sexual forms of generation with technology), there are questions rituals in sexuality. 

It is evident that the ritual interaction between sexual humans not only serves for procreation, as the maximum power to perpetuate the species, but also establishes intimate bonds, provides pleasure and releases endorphins. These ties already suppose relations of domination and dominated, that is to say, of power. And, like all of our history, it also fulfills a nuclear role among the myths of our culture, like all of them.

Sex myths: The clitoris was discovered long ago

kate lister, great sexual historian, is responsible for giving a voice to those people who lived in the past and, to get closer to what life was like for our ancestors through sex. Tells us: "We tend to think that orgasm is something new that only matters to us today, and historians know that it is a lie"

He adds that “the discovery of the clitoris, of course, was vital. In 1559 two Italian anatomical physicians (Gabriel Fallopio and Matteo Realdo Colombo) discovered it practically at the same time.

The Englishman Joseph Mortimer Granville invented in 1870 the first electric vibrator so that the hands of doctors could rest. Yes, the doctors also had the function of masturbating in pursuit of the elimination of what was then called hysteria. Freud went so far as to say that those women who only managed to climax thanks to clitoral stimulation were immature and had problems stemming from childhood trauma. Of course it was another time, and every great transformer of thought has been recorded some phrase that as the course of history runs, they become obsolete. 

do uibrador as a product of sexual myths?

It should be known that the dildo in general as such exists millennia ago. The story of dildos and sex toys in ancient Egypt is very popular and continues to be found in excavations. However, when it comes to the origin of the electric dildo Says the aforementioned historian to the BBC: "You have a pretty preconceived idea of ​​the Victorian era." “It is true that their double standards are still valid in us, and we often think of sex as something bad, but the Victorians were not idiots. They knew what orgasms were. An example of this is the fascinating story of the inventor of the vibrator". 

It was during Victorian times that marriages tended to be arranged and although masturbation was considered 'a dark vice', the so-called female hysteria was the order of the day. Sexual myths dominated the cultural realm, and even the scientific one. Well, speaking of sexual myths, doctors as we said before, They tended to cure it by stimulating the genitalia of the lady in question, as this would 'release' the repressed sexual desire. Women were then considered to be suffering from hysteria when they had headaches, insomnia, irritability or some tendency to cause problems.

The Englishman Joseph Mortimer Granville was the one who In 1870 he invented the first electric vibrator in the face of an 'epidemic of hysterics', a crude characterization of the time. However, despite being a fascinating story, there is practically no information about it. "It was Rachel P. Maines who went into more detail in her book 'The Technology of Orgasm,'" Leister says. “Actually, a film was made a few years ago, but the few records about it show how Victorians behaved when it came to sexuality. They knew what orgasms were, but they didn't want to hear about it. That is why we would need to put that morality aside and return to the idea of ​​sex that was held in the Middle Ages”, she affirms.

The old orgies

We have already done a article on the Roman bacchanaliaBut when we think of orgies, we usually go back to the hippy era at best. They continue to resemble the common people of society as something new and transgressive. But the truth is that, as we have already worked on, in Ancient Greece great orgies were already practiced. They had a ritual character and yet it is undeniable that they still, in some way, still have it.. If in particular the most famous were those that were performed as a cult of Dionysus, orgies today have a secular character, but it involves a transgression of the limits of individuality that anthropologists could undoubtedly include in the ritual character. They have changed a bit, yes, at that time they were made up of 'wild' dances in the light of torches and dismemberment of animals.

Myths about masturbation

Many do not know that the term 'onanism' comes from Onan, the biblical son of Judah. Of course, today there are many who defend the benefits of masturbation, but it is important to emphasize that until not very recently it was very different. In order to prevent some young people from acceding to these practices in the seminars, they were used to lying that it caused blindness or baldness. 

Short stature, loss of sensation or even excessive hair growth, particularly on the hands. The great thinker Michael Foucault was commissioned in his course called "The abnormals", in what way the judicial power was articulated between the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries with psychiatric knowledge, exercising certain punishments such as amputations to those who exercised masturbation. 

Sexual traditions: the color red

“Roxanne / you don't have to put on that red light”- says the great theme song from 'The Police'. Of course the color red has always been linked to prostitution. For something the famous red zones, (also Chinatowns or tolerance zones) are those where prostitution is concentrated. However, this detail does not have so much to do with sexual myths.

Where can we trace this custom and why? It should be noted that the most widespread legend in this regard dates from the late nineteenth century in the United States. The main protagonists are the railway workers, as they have also been in our other article on prostitution in the old west. Back then, they had train signal lamps in two colors, white and red. It happened that when they attended brothels, they left them on and hung them outside the premises. The red pointed to the street and the white illuminated inside the premises, which caused that part of the city to become a true red zone.

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