Historical story

Sex as a hobby

At the Kamasutra fair you can get 'everything in the field of eroticism and lifestyle'. Sex is fun, and everyone should know that.

Not so long ago, sex and sexuality were dirty and forbidden. Porn was only available on the sly and sex was for the bedroom. Since the sixties of the last century, a change has started, which is why we are where we are today. Sexuality, we believe, is something fun and natural and something you can talk about with anyone. What was private is now increasingly public.

The boundaries are shifting, and they always do. In the fifteenth century things like premarital sex and adultery were forbidden, although of course they were not enforced in practice. In the book 'Der Minnen Loep' by Dirc Potter, for example, a line was drawn between 'permitted' and 'unauthorized to love'. “The white neck and the red cheeks can be touched. You may feel free to stroke the breasts, as long as they are not too tightly enclosed." And an anonymous author of the fifteenth-century 'Sondaren troest' ('Consolation for sinners') drew the line upon seeing 'one another's paltry members', kissing 'inappropriately' and 'making love in inappropriate places'. '.

Funny thing is, sexual acts did not directly lead to shame or disgrace, or to admonishing language from the moralists of the time. That wasn't the case until people talked about it. If you could keep it quiet, you could fully enjoy the things that were forbidden.


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