Historical story

Plautus:how to "Pick Up" a Woman

Plautus

The ancient Romans , as you know, they had rather free customs and the men were decidedly skilled in the art, sometimes a little rough, of courtship .

If the young marriageable girls were absolutely untouchable and could not be undermined in any way, with prostitutes and freedmen, or freed slaves, on the contrary, they could indulge themselves by showing them all their original sample of "techniques of trailer ” more or less effective, more or less amusing and more or less gallant (or vulgar).

In the Asinaria , the work of the great Latin playwright Plautus , who lived in the third century BC, there is a nice "list" of "boarding methods "Preferred by the Romans of the time, some of whom are objectively strange, yet, it seems, incredibly valid.

Among the most curious, there is that of coughing out the tongue in the direction of the girl object of his desires and wiping his nose after a sneeze on the back of his hand (?!) taking the opportunity to send the girl a romantic kiss.