[ SECRET POST #2427 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2427 ⌋

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Comments

[dreemyweird]

There's this Russian book that has a quasi-medieval setting and contains a graphic description of how the main hero was trying to have sex with one of the female characters and ended up too grossed out to do it because she hadn't washed for, like, a month and because there were bed bugs in her room. As a matter of fact, he nearly threw up (he was from the future and not exactly accustomed to this sort of thing).

Ever since then I can't help but feel that in some settings unshaved legs would barely constitute the tip of the iceberg.

[(Anonymous)]

lmao this, there are so many other issues with medieval sex that shaved legs wouldn't even cross my mind

[sootyowl]

Omg, that sounds amazing to read. What is the title of the book?

[dreemyweird]

Hard to Be a God by Arkady and Boris Strugatsky.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hard_to_Be_a_God

They're very good writers in general, my personal favourite is Monday Begins on Saturday (a story about a dude working as a programmer in the Scientific Research Institute of Sorcery and Wizardry); the one problem that can arise is that there is a lot of Soviet cultural context in their books, but it does not apply (or rather, does not create problems) in the case of Hard to Be a God.

[sootyowl]

Ooh fantasy + scifi. Nice!

I'll have to look into them. Thanks for the info!

[darkmanifest]

Oh my god that's a little too real for me, haha.

[(Anonymous)]

This is actually historically accurate, during the 'medieval' time people tended to be actually fairly clean and fastidious. It wasn't until the Victorian era where the peasants were so oppressed and poor they -couldn't- bathe that things got real stanky. This was also contributed to by the severe repression of the upper class. Anything of a remotely sexual nature, even nudity for bathing, was seen as impure. This led to a whole lot of perfuming and the proliferation of the idea that a layer of filth was protective against illness and to remove what god put on you was a sin.

[(Anonymous)]

*inaccurate
way to mess up my entire point, typo

[(Anonymous)]

Fascinating! I had no idea. :o

[angrymermaids]

This! One of my peeves is when people keep parroting medieval stereotypes that are actually wrong.

One of my favorite facts: In medieval Wales, a woman could divorce her husband for having bad breath. This tells us a couple of interesting things. First, women were not nearly as oppressed as people think, divorce was relatively kosher (meaning religious dogma didn't hold as strongly as people think), and bad breath was not accepted as just a fact of peasant life.

[(Anonymous)]

Yeah, I mean, didn't women also brew the beer and direct servants on how to make a feast? I've also read that prisoners were occasionally led through a part of town and they could ask for alms and attend family events and the like.

[diabolicalfiend]

If it makes you feel better, maybe the reaction of the dude who was so disgusted makes it actually accurate?