it has never not been a rough time to be a woman lmao
I was surprised to learn that there are many women who have never had an orgasm. And that pressure to have one has become yet another social imperative women never asked for. Why shame the woman? Should they not have agency over their own bodies? The implication that it’s a failing of their partner suggests that it’s beyond their control.
It feels like a very male-centric outlook to view orgasms as essential to sex. Of course, one would assume women could take matters into their own hands, so to speak, but I’ve been told by female friends that, for many women, it’s not as simple as that, psychologically.
My own opinion is that, in our race for equality (which I support), we’ve often chosen to flatten gender differences rather than celebrate or acknowledge them. We’ve assumed that sexuality/desire/impulse/physiology is the same across genders, and that differences are down to individual mindsets rather than biological. I think it’s both, but we’ve neglected the latter.
Having 4 babies in 1 year in the 1800s had to be quite the achievement
Not impossible though. Two in January, two in November.
Or just the four of them together in one go I guess.
Regardless of which way it happened, I’d be crying a lot, especially if it happened in the 1800s.
In the 1800s you’d be counting yourself lucky you survived it.
Food was much cheaper and you were allowed to put them to work right away.
Plus most of them died before five anyways.
Ah, yes, the 1800s… When it was perfectly legal to put newborn babies to work in the coal-mining sweat shops of South London
Very Tiny Tim: Please, Sir, may I have some WHAAAAA! WHAAAA! WHAAAAA!
Kids as young as 4 years old would be put to work, so it’s not that far off really.
Not just legal but encouraged.
Encouraged by all the starvation, poverty, and pestilence
They yearn for the mines after all
Or 6 at once but 2 didn’t make it
Or octuplets born on new year’s eve so half were in one year and half were in the next.
Now we’re going into bitch territory. 🐕
I knew a set of quads in school. They were all really cool.
Nice! Identical or fraternal?
Well, i didn’t examine their DNA lol but they all presented the same gender and were visually similar to each other.
Or triplets in January and one in November, or one in January and triplets in November (but it was definitely these two months). She’s crazy – capable of anything.
Irish quadruplets?
Never said they came to term
I’ve never met anyone who had a miscarriage or stillborn and still described the experience as having a baby in this way.
How many people from the 1800’s do you know
Some women from the 1800s would have described having a miscarriage as a blessing, not a baby.
https://slate.com/human-interest/2018/11/miscarriage-19th-century-women-loss-book.html
Gladys and Hugo. 2. They dead tho. Gladys will live forever in my heart because she was my favorite organist growing up.
Personally, or by reputation?
Only if they survive until birth.
The solution is obviously cocaine.
You joke, but I’m currently studying the history of my area’s mental health system and people believed giving birth and lactating made women insane.
They were describing post partum symptoms most likely. Pretty rough stuff for some people. Some people can get ptsd from it.
Yup. And what’s worse, you can temporarily alleviate the symptoms by getting pregnant. I know someone with 13 kids who, uh, self medicated that way.
I’m a man, but I like it when my wife has orgasms. Often I do, too. Sometimes the two coincide and I really like that.
I suspect men of old also loved their lovers, though not universally. Hopefully the ladies came as well.
… fortunately for you, I have a treatment that won’t cost much. No, you can’t watch. Also, there’s a discount if you pay for a full year in advance.
Modern day vibrators are a silver lining to this time period lol
I’m not a fan of this use of “whom”.
Because it’s incorrect.
Exactly the reason why, indeed.
Slightly smarter dumb-dumbs get corrected a lot so they just always use the “more proper” sounding one while still not actually understanding the rule
It’s like YouTubers who say “thee” because they think it’s a more formal version of “the”. Drives me crazy…
That’s rage bait, right?
I’m glad my YouTube algorithm has been honed and curated for so long that I never get suggested morons like that.
But it does rhyme with “womb”, if you’re composing slam poetry.
Better treatment options though.
Yeah like divorce :)
Also heroin and dildos. ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡° )
Yes, but lets not discuss the fainting spells and the massage treatments that noble women received to relieve their bouts of “hysteria”.
Honestly, I wonder how much of that is real versus made up for slander “Let them eat cake” was not quite ancient history in the Victorian era.
I’ll give mommy an orgasm whenever she wants
Hysterical?
The old “Irish quadruplets”
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