Who used to be called a whore? Not the one that you thought

2018-03-19 17:04

Who used to be called a whore? Not the one that you thought
The intimate life of the Slavs were not very shy.

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In the historical treatise of Europe, East and Asia displays lots of information about the intimate life of peoples, but about the love traditions of the Slavs has preserved very little information. Ancient scrolls describe their sex life, for centuries, were destroyed by Church leaders, but this does not mean that nothing happened, reports Rus.Media.

The intimate life of the Slavs were not very shy. In the pre-Christian era love games for boys and girls was accompanied by practically any occasion. Historians call the tradition of jumping over the fire on Midsummer erotic fun because of the jumps up the skirts of girls consistently bullied, exposing all the intimate places. Until the twelfth century, the monks clearly have a negative attitude to this tradition, saying that “there are the men and young men of the great drop to the girl’s vacillation”.

Physical intimacy is invariably accompanied by pagan rituals during planting time. The girls walked around the fields by night stark naked to share the power of procreation with mother earth. Men, in turn, sowing the fields, often undressed. According to the beliefs, “marriage was” between the people and the land. Well, the harvest was good probably, the Slavs made love right on the field or imitated this process, rolling back and forth.

In the seventh century arose the concept “whore”, but then it should not have a negative shade. Whores called those girls looking for a husband (in tune with the “wander”). With the X century. with the adoption of Christianity, this concept changes its value. Now the harlot of the position of the Church is an unmarried girl deprived of innocence or a widow who is host of men.

Among the few descriptions of the intimate traditions of the Slavs, there are data that in the VIII century the day before the wedding, the Magi had to deprive the bride of her virginity in the bath. Prince Svyatoslav in 967 changed this situation by passing this “responsibility” lawful husbands.

Based on the “Tale of bygone years”, you can see that in some places practiced polygamy. The Byzantine historian Procopius Tamarisci, describing the life of the Eastern Slavs, mentioned that one family could have two to four wives. Widely known fact that the plural marriage of Prince Vladimir Svyatoslavich. Only official chosen he was twelve, this is not counting 800 concubines.

With the strengthening of Christianity, the subject of sexuality is becoming more taboo. Now to deal with it was allowed only for spouses, and then only in the missionary position. Of course, always had those who lived “in sin”, so in confession the people had to tell about all your adventures. Among the manuscripts preserved service, provided that questions concerning the intimate life, was to put the priest in the confessional. As a punishment for adultery relied prayers are with numerous bows from 3 to 10 years.

The Church was forbidden to make love standing, because the ability to get pregnant in this position decreased. And that meant that this situation was “not for childbirth, and weakness for the sake of”. “Right” was considered only the “missionary position”. People’s reaction to such prohibitions were not long in coming. In the pre-Petrine era was a popular saying: “Sin is when feet up and down – God has forgiven”.

The Slavs did not differ modesty, but in an intimate relationship to enter was only a man with a woman.