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 that accompany him If we ask ourselves why it is possible to affirm that it is sex that moves the world, several answers can come to mind. For example: provides power, also historically has brought great empires to ashes, either that highly relevant public figures lose their prestige for having made their sexual relations public. As we have seen in several cases in our ArgentinaXP articles, He managed to get people not recognized or with royal blood to access 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 prostitute. 

Of course, since the human being is a sex animal, sex has always accompanied him. Since we come from natural generation, sex, one could say, is our foundation as existents. But in addition to the fact that sex is a condition of possibility for 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 of 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 plays a nuclear role among the myths of our culture, as of all.

sexual myths: The clitoris was discovered a long time ago

Kate Lister, great sexual historian, is in charge of giving voice to those people who lived in the past and, to bring us 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 order to 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 traumas. Of course it was another time, and every great transformer of thought has recorded some phrase that as the course of history runs, they become obsolete. 

you seeibrador as a product of sexual myths?

It should be known that the dildo in general as such has existed for thousands of years. The story of dildos and sex toys in ancient Egypt, which continue to be found in excavations, is very popular. However, when it comes to 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 conceive 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 the Victorian era 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 sphere, and even the scientific one. Well, speaking of sexual myths, doctors, as we said before, they tended to cure it by stimulating the genitals of the lady in question, thus 'releasing' the repressed sexual desire. Women were then considered to be afflicted with hysteria when they had headaches, insomnia, irritability, or some tendency to cause trouble.

The Englishman Joseph Mortimer Granville was the one who in 1870 he invented the first electric vibrator in the face of an 'epidemic of hysterical', 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 told it in more detail in her book 'The Technology of Orgasm,'” says Leister. “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”, he affirms.

The ancient orgies

We have already made a article about the roman bacchanalia, but when we think of orgies, we usually go back to the hippy era at the most. They continue to appear to the common people of society as something new and transgressive. But the truth is that, as we have already worked on, great orgies were already practiced in Ancient Greece. 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 carried out as a cult of Dionysus, today orgies have a secular character, but it supposes 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 'riotous' dances in the light of torches and dismembering 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 agreeing to these practices in seminaries, they used to be lied to that it caused blindness or baldness. 

Short stature, loss of sensitivity or even an excessive increase in hair, particularly on the hands. The great thinker Michael Foucault was in charge in his course called "The abnormals", how the judiciary was articulated between the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries with psychiatric knowledge, exercising certain punishments such as amputations to those who masturbated. 

Sexual traditions: the color red

“Roxanne / you don't have to put on that red light”– says the great musical theme of 'The Police'. of course the color red has always been linked to prostitution. For a reason 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 19th century in the United States. The main protagonists are the railway workers, as they have also been in our other article about 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 was aimed at 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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