DYK husbands in ancient #India had many wives & #concubines to pursue the 1st #LifeGoal of their religion—the #shastra of #SexualPleasure? Wives w/many husbands were much less common. Ghosts of #WmnHist still haunt. HowSexGotScrewedUp.com #polyandry #polygamy #polygyny
DYK preColumbian Maya’s extended families included a man’s #concubines? Children were everyone’s & everyone cared for them. Catholics demanded nuclear families, so many kids became homeless. The church blamed it on #degeneracy. HowSexGotScrewedUp.com #IndigenousHist #WmnHist
DYK most of 500,000 Christian men in Britain’s far-flung empire were #polygamous, kept #concubines & paid #SexWorkers? #DavidOchterlony (d. 1825) even paraded his 13 wives on elephants through the streets of Delhi. HowSexGotScrewedUp.com #HistSex #polyamory
DYK 19thC English men began keeping secret their relationships w/native #lovers—bibi—in India? #EastIndiaCompany guidebooks stopped carrying info about keeping #concubines as #racism increased & offspring had to go to special schools for #MixedRace kids. HowSexGotScrewedUp.com
DYK, like #TrumpKKKristians of today, the medieval church claimed that 1,000s of women were the Devil’s #concubines? Absurd as it was, it made sense to minds taught to accept the miracles of the saints & the magic of the #VirginBirth & the Eucharist.
#WmnHist
DYK husbands in ancient #India had many wives & #concubines to pursue the 1st #LifeGoal of their religion—the #shastra of #SexualPleasure? Wives w/many husbands were much less common. Ghosts of #WmnHist still haunt. HowSexGotScrewedUp.com #polyandry #polygamy #polygyny
DYK most 17thC Latino masters didn’t allow enslaved women to marry? Many reserved them as #concubines for #SexPlay. Most free non-élite, mixed-sex couples didn’t bother w/marriage, enjoyed #cohabitation & had families. HowSexGotScrewedUp.com #WmnHist
There were strict rules about #coitus. A man owed #SexualPleasure to all his wives& #concubines, He had to have sex w/each every 5 days until they turned 50. Those of higher rank had more sex w/him than those of lower rank. HowSexGotScrewedUp.com #GenderHistory #relationships
DYK husbands in ancient #India had many wives & #concubines to pursue the 1st #LifeGoal of their religion—the #shastra of #SexualPleasure? Wives w/many husbands were much less common. Ghosts of #WmnHist still haunt. HowSexGotScrewedUp.com #polyandry #polygamy #polygyny
