Unpleasant facts from the history of mankind.
In the history of human civilization is a place not only to heroic deeds and great discoveries, but also by the obscene facts about which teachers most often trying to ignore. But as you know, murder will out! In our review of the “ten” facts from different periods of history, which it is not necessary to tell children.
1. Squad Porky
Spanking children is not usually a disciplinary punishment. But, it turns out, in history there have been similar examples. The mayor Bridgeton (NJ, USA) Arthur Whitaker in 1910, organized a special troop of flogging for young offenders. In the mayor’s office he has installed a special machine for the automated whipping and sentenced her to young offenders instead of sending them to reform school.
The duration and intensity of the whipping was regulated depending on the severity of the crime. According to Whitaker, during the seven years of his stay in office through the machine more than 100 boys and a few girls. He called the experiment a success.
2. Swabs with cocaine
Historically, treated women’s diseases a very unusual way. In ancient Greece facilitated vaginal pain with tampons soaked in opium and belladonna. This absurd ancient medical practice survived until the 19th century. When cocaine began to be used as a surgical anesthetic in the mid-1800-ies, they are often soaked in an antiseptic swabs, which are then applied in cases of gunshot wounds. Closer to the end of the century, cocaine was considered a good remedy for the treatment of gynecological diseases, so women were appointed swabs with cocaine.
3. Riots in the brothels and the petition.
In the XVII century in the London riots during the so-called “Fat Tuesday” (Mardi Gras) was common. During Easter week, the faithful are literally attacked the place with a bad reputation, such as gambling houses, taverns and other seedy establishments. Typically, these ended without much incident, but in 1668 it was different. This year king Charles II banned the supplications of the heretics. This led to the fact that thousands of dissidents began to vent their fury at the brothels.
In response to this rebellion, several “mothers” and “workers,” wrote the so-called “poor whores Petition” and sent it to the Countess Castlemaine, the king’s mistress. It was a mocking letter in which he derided the promiscuous king and other courtesans high class. The letter concluded with the request to lady Castlemaine, to help her “sisters”.
4. The Desecration Of Constantinople
Latin Empire – state, with its capital in Constantinople, founded by the crusaders in 1204 after the defeat of Byzantium – today is not very well known, as there were only about 50 years. After the fourth crusade, many crusaders, led by count Baldwin of Flanders rebelled against the Byzantine Empire, besieged Constantinople and sacked the city. In 1204 Baldwin proclaimed himself Emperor Baldwin I and announced the creation of a new Latin Empire, as a true descendant of Rome. The looting and desecration of the city were described by the Byzantine historian Niketeam Choniates. He wrote that the crusaders took all that I could find.
The crusaders took the reliquaries, vessels and utensils made of precious metals, and destroyed all that was in their power. The sacred altar in the Hagia Sophia was broken into small pieces, which were distributed among the soldiers. However, Choniates considers the greatest desecration that the crusaders put a naked prostitute on the Patriarchal throne and forced her to sing and dance for their entertainment.
5. Ecotality the feet of the Empress
About the sex life of Catherine the great tells a lot. The most famous myth about him says that the Empress indulged in amorous pleasures with a horse. It is a recognized fact that Catherine was very much lovers. And besides, she had special people that were tickling her feet, telling the obscene stories or singing songs.
In such “ecotality” selected women of aristocratic birth. It was a very coveted position because of a close relationship with the Empress. Tell that ecotality sometimes present in the boudoir of this noble.
6. The Warren Cup
In 1865 the British Museum Secretum was created – private section of the Museum, which housed all the artifacts that are considered indecent in Victorian society. Most of them came from George Witt, a London doctor who owned an extensive collection of phallic things. Secretum to visit and view the exhibits, had to get special permission.
Within 100 years of the existence of the secret collection was one object that was considered too obscene even for Secretum – Cup Warren. It was a silver Roman bowl, which depicted a homosexual act between two men on one side of the bowl and the man with the little boy on the other. In 1999, the British Museum paid £ 1.8 million for this Cup.
7. “Port Toes”
For many centuries, one of the first things seen by many people visiting Milan, was a bas-relief of woman who shave their pubic hair. This bas-relief was placed at the Eastern gate of the city called Porta Tosa”, which was later renamed “Porta Vittoria”. The bas-relief remained there until the 19th century when the gate was demolished, and indecent thread was moved to the Museum.
There are several legends surrounding the origin of the bas-relief, and they are all connected with the Holy Roman Emperor and enemy of Milan by Frederick Barbarossa. One story says that thread just shows the wife of Barbarossa in a shameful situation. Another claims that the bas-relief depicts the Milanese woman who shaves before besieging a town by the army of Barbarossa.
8. Caesar is the Queen of Bithynia
Julius Caesar we all remember as one of the greatest conquerors in the world. But during his reign he had many political opponents, who called Caesar the “Queen of Bithynia”. Rumor has it that Caesar was a secret lover of the king of Bithynia Nycomed IV. This could occur in about 80 BC, when the young Caesar arrived there as Ambassador. Despite the fact that today it is impossible to determine whether it was just a rumor or not, the historian Suetonius thought it was a proven fact, referring to the relationship of Caesar with king Nycomed.
9. “Cockle-bread”
Cockle-bread was likely just a kind of bread in England many centuries ago. However, it was also the name of an erotic dance that could be considered as a primitive form of twerking. According to the writer of the 17th century John Aubrey, “young girls amused by this senseless sport, getting up on the table, lifting their clothes and shaking their buttocks back and forth as if they kneaded the dough.
10. What the Butler saw
William Dixon today almost nobody remembers that surprising, given his contribution to the creation of early movies. Starting out as an assistant to Thomas Edison, he helped design and build a peep show device to show movies, Edison. Dixon later founded his own company and built mutoscope, a competitor of Edison’s machine. In mutoscope used the photos in a larger view for better image quality.
In the UK this device became known as “what the Butler saw” – named after the popular movie that was showing on mutoscope. It was an erotic picture in which the viewer as if watched through a keyhole as a woman slowly undresses in her bedroom.
