Sexual trivia:
1. The first thing the "Father of Microbiology," Anton van Leeuwenhoek, put under a microscope was his semen. In 1677 van Leeuwenhoek examined fresh semen, in which he observed living spermatozoa. It was understood that semen was integral to the creation of life, but the concept of single-cell organisms hadn't been discovered yet. He expected to see tiny little humans.
2. Vibrator was invented for doctors who were getting carpel tunnel from using their fingers to give female patients orgasms in order to treat hysteria.
4. Lawrence Sperry, the man who invented the autopilot, while piloting a Curtiss Flying Boat C‑2 some 500 feet above the coast of Long Island in 1916, used autopilot to administer a novel kind of flying lesson to one Cynthia Polk. During their airborne antics, however, the two unwittingly managed to bump and disengage the autopilot, sending their plane into Great South Bay, where they were rescued, both stark naked, by duck hunters. Sperry explained that the force of the crash had stripped both fliers of all their clothing, but that didn't stop a skeptical New York tabloid from running the famous headline "Aerial Petting Ends in Wetting."
5. In 1889, French president, Felix Faure, died of a seizure at a critical juncture while engaged in sexual activities in his office with his 30-year-old mistress. It has been widely reported that Felix Faure had his fatal seizure while his mistress was fellating him.
6. In 2005, German scientists found world's oldest sculpted phallus in southwestern Germany. It is a 20 cm polished siltstone schlong created around 28,000 years ago.
7. Ballet of Chestnuts was a supper held in the Papal Palace by Cesare Borgia, son of Pope Alexander VI in 1501. The banquet was held in the Vatican with "fifty honest prostitutes", who danced after dinner with the attendants and others who were present, at first in their garments, then naked. After dinner, chestnuts were strewn around, which the naked courtesans picked up, creeping on hands and knees between the chandeliers, while the Pope, Cesare, and his sister Lucretia looked on. "Servants kept score of each man's orgasms, for the pope greatly admired virility and measured a man's machismo by his ejaculative capacity. After everyone was exhausted, his Holiness distributed prizes."
8. Former U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson was a sexual maniac who nicknamed his penis "Jumbo" and he would often urinate in public. If anyone confronted him while doing so, he would turn around and say "have you ever seen anything as big as this?"
9. In Pompeii, there are giant stone penises carved into the pavement pointing the way to the brothels. There is also a building in Pompei that was a brothel with many small rooms with stone beds and erotic wall paintings with no two depicting a man and woman or man and man in the same position. It is unclear whether the images on the walls were advertisements for the services offered or merely intended to heighten the pleasure of the visitors
10. Pomegranate has been used as a contraceptive and abortifacient by means of consuming the seeds, or rind, as well as by using the rind as a vaginal suppository. This practice is recorded in ancient Indian literature, in medieval sources, and in modern folk medicine. In ancient Egypt, women inserted crocodile dung into the vagina as spermicidal gel to help block sperm. It worked because of the high acid content of the dung.
11. The morning shows during Roman times were often short plays from classic mythology. They used condemned criminals to play the leads so that they could kill them during the performance if needed. During Nero's time, they reenacted Pasiphaë, a story in which a woman is raped by a bull. They did it for real in front of an applauding audience.
12. King Louis XVI of France had phimosis, which made it incredibly painful for him to get an erection. This meant he couldn't consummate his marriage. The consequence of this was that there were rumors that he was infertile or gay, which were put to rest when he underwent circumcision seven years into his marriage and got his queen Marie Antoinette pregnant.
13. Medieval monks commonly wrote homoerotic poetry that they would pass around while copying texts.
14. Roman emperor Elagabalus was a cross-dresser. Tales circulated that he spent his evenings pretending to be a female prostitute and that he wanted to have a vagina surgically implanted into his body.
15. In 17th century Europe, no one saw anything wrong in the nannies' practice of masturbating little boys to help them sleep.
16. The stories about witches riding broomsticks comes from the Europe in the Middle ages when some women consumed hallucinogens by applying them to a broomstick and then delivering the drug via mucous membrane in the vagina.
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