How People Had Sex According To The Era They Were Living In

Sex can be a funny thing.  We often don't give it too much thought, but we've got it pretty easy when it comes to sex.  It's not like the old days, when the rules were a bit less difficult to digest.  In fact, these rules affected how people had sex.  Now, depending on the era, these weren't always rules, but trends.  History's weird like that — things just change every now and then.  There may be things happening now that we don't even realize yet.  So keep reading to discover how people had sex according to the era they were living in.

Purely sex. God, the Puritans must have been such a boring bunch, right? There’s no way they had as much sex as we do, right? Well, wrong, actually. As it turns out, during the Puritan Era, these folks were banging left and right — sometimes even out in the open. These b*tches just didn’t care.

The codpiece. Men in the Middle Ages clearly had an issue with the way their d*cks looked, because they were constantly trying to make them look bigger, according to Oddee.com. So, they invested in codpieces to literally make their bulges bulge out even more than apparently weren’t. Can you blame them, though? Yeah. You can blame them.

Let’s open this up. Back in the 1970s, people were much more open to the idea of being, well, open with their sex lives. Couples were more inclined to swap partners and experiment with the idea of having sex outside of marriage. It was experimental, but it was a major step for sex.

Red lipstick and BJs. If you were living in Ancient Egypt (we’re talking 3100-332 B.C.), then getting head came in a different package. According to Bustle, you would know if someone wanted to suck you off if they were wearing one specific ingredient: red lipstick. That way, you didn’t have to guess anything.

Chastity belt. Since the medieval Church was so obsessed with people’s sex lives (not at all in the way they are now, though, right?), they offered women something called a chastity belt. This was an iron belt that literally locked their genitals away from sex.

Boners and lettuce. These days, when a guy is having issues getting his hot dog to stand alert, but things were different back in Ancient Rome. If they want to guarantee that their penises were perky, they simply made sure not to eat lettuce. It didn’t really help but… you can’t be mad at them for trying.

The 50s were apparently freaking awful. According to Dr. William Kroger and Dr. Charles Freed, via MsMagazine.com, “Many women not only experience no pleasure, but actually suffer pain and revulsion [during coitus]. This fact assumes added significance from a sociological and religious aspect because of increasing extramarital promiscuity and the present high divorce rate.”

Courtly love. Since sleeping around during the Middle Ages in Europe was something more or less punishable by death, folks back then were super careful about how they loved someone whom they weren’t supposed to love. They had to engage in courtly love, which meant they could only love each other from a distance.

Dilldough. Yes, in the Middle Ages, women had sex toys. Except, their version of the phallic sex toy women use today was spelled, “dilldough” (but no, it wasn’t actually made out of dough. They weren’t exactly as comfortable as they are these days, but… they at least tried to get the job done.

The modern era. Modern sex is simple enough to understand. We have sex with whoever’s down to have sex — and that person doesn’t even have to be single, because so many couples are experimenting with open relationships. It’s a strange world we live in now. A fun one, but strange all the same.

Sex through history. It doesn’t matter what era you find someone in — they’re going to love sex. It just so happens that depending on the era you find them, you’re going to see people engaging in sex in fairly different ways. For example, you can be guaranteed that people in the 1762 weren’t exactly banging the way we bang these days.

S&M. The idea of S&M wasn’t invented in the 1990s, but it was definitely popularized back then. This is when people started talking about this wild endeavour, even though some people were probably too afraid to give it a try. That being said, most people were just too shy to tell anyone what they were up to.

Future eras. Now, we can only guess where sex is going to end up in the future, but we’ve all certainly got ideas. Let’s just assume that, considering what movies and books have told us, robots will most likely be delivering us all the pleasure we could ever hope for. Or maybe that’s just the science fiction talking.

Good vibrations. During the Victorian Era, if you were a women, you could be prescribed with a vibrator. While this might seem a bit over the top, it’s perfectly legit. It technically wasn’t meant to get women off, but considering the fact that it was a f*cking vibrator, that’s exactly what it ended up doing.

Sex in the 1950s. Back in the 50s, couples were apparently too frigid in the bedroom to really have any decent fun. A lot of men complained that the women weren’t delivering the passion they needed, but this could have just been because the men weren’t giving them the pleasure they needed.