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10 historical curiosities ONLY for adults [18+]

Acute pornography in Egyptian mythology. An outstanding painter exposed as a disgusting pedophile. And the dark secrets of British obstetricians. We present ten stories so drastic, vulgar, or so erotic that we decided to mark them as materials [18+] before publication.

As always, all TOP10 items are based on the articles we publish. You can find many of them in the "Love, Sex and Betrayal" category.

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"Arsenic and old lace" is a true story. One agile American widow, Belle Gunness, murdered 28 men and buried their bodies in her own plot of land. In this way, she proved that the marriage advertisement section can be a great way to make an easy income. As long as you're not afraid to get your hands dirty with ... blood (read more on this topic) .

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According to the ancient Egyptians, the world was created by the act of masturbation. The mythology of the land of the pharaohs is full of pornographic scenes - from anal rape to the incestuous games of the gods with their mothers (read more about it) .

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A ruthless rapist and murderer was on the prowl during the war in Berlin. Paul Orzogow took the bloody toll by taking advantage of the forced blackouts of the city related to the Allied bombing. Confessed to eight murders and over thirty sexual assaults (read more on this) .

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Everything indicates that an outstanding 20th-century painter of Polish origin molested little girls. It is likely that Balthasar Kłossowski de Rola (better known as Balthus) not only painted his underage models in scandalous poses, but also - sexually abused them (read more on this topic) .

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Soviet security officials tortured detainees with heated rat cages against their torso. Desperate animals were working their teeth on the only possible escape route - through the body of the unfortunate man. This is just one of the many gruesome investigative methods used by Feliks Dzerzhinsky's subordinates (read more about it) .

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In pre-war Poland, the murder of unwanted children was a real plague. Mothers strangled their children, abandoned them in the forest or drowned sewage pits under the outhouses. Their crimes went almost completely unpunished (read more on that) .

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There was an epidemic of zoophilia in medieval Europe. Historians and anthropologists estimate that even several dozen percent of the rural population engaged in sexual acts with animals. A learned monk stated with horror that the threat of seduction by wild donkeys threatens even the most pious of humans (read more on this) .

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Ancient Spartans were extremely licentious. They were pathologically obsessed with having children. If Spartiata was unable to extend his lineage, he happily lent his wife to a more capable colleague (read more on this topic) .

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A ruthless pedophile-murderer was on the prowl in the Third Reich. The infamous "Uncle Tik-tak" raped and murdered at least twelve boys in two years. He never pleaded guilty (read more on this) .

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If it weren't for the two British murderers, you might never have been born. Scientists suspect that William Smellie and William Hunter ripped up the bodies of thirty women and killed them to prepare the first modern anatomical atlases for obstetricians. Without their "contribution" to science, the infant mortality rate would be much higher today (read more on this) .