19 NSFW Facts They Didn't Teach You in History Class
A collection of facts that your history teacher never told you about.
Published 3 years ago in Wow
A collection of facts that your history teacher never told you about.
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Julie D'Aubigny was a famous 17th century French opera singer who once took the holy vows to enter a convent just so she could have sex with a nun. She also had a habit of seducing women at parties, which would lead their husbands to challenge her to a duel. She was an expert duelist and killed 10 men like this.6
The US government tried undermining Sukarno's rule over Indonesia by hiring a random Hispanic guy (who apparently looked like Sukarno) to do a porno and distributing it to the people of Indonesia. The idea was that this tape would further Sukarno's image as a lecherous womanizer and cause a negative reaction from the conservative Muslim population. Apparently Sukarno was thrilled and thought it was great (he allegedly bragged about it) and the people of Indonesia simply didn't care.7
When Blackbeard blockaded Charleston Harbor in 1718, he didn't ask for gold, he demanded medicine. The salacious part of this request is what type of medicine was requested...you see he requested mercury and injection equipment. Back in the day, mercury injected into the urethra was thought to be a cure for gonorrhea. And after a long stint in the brothels of Barbados, most of the men in his fleet were completely infested! Thus, Blackbeard the pirate captured Charelston harbor because his man parts were...causing him issues...so to speak.12
Vlad the Impaler, the 15th century leader of what is today Romania and also the inspiration for the character Dracula, was extremely creative in coming up with painful ways to kill prisoners. He decided that impaling people through the ass with sharp wooden stakes and letting a horse pull you until it came out through your face wasn't painful enough, so he decided to stop using sharply pointed stakes and a horse and instead switch to impaling people with a flat stake and turn it vertically as to allow gravity to do all of the work. That way non of your organs get pierced so the process takes a lot longer. He would also sometimes have his meals brought to him while he watched this happen so that helped inspire the myth that he was eating the people he killed.13
Most commonfolk throughout much of history had very meager lodgings, and most families would sleep together both for warmth as well as the simple fact that they didn't have the space for people to sleep separately. If mom and dad were in the mood to procreate, the rest of the family was just... there.14
John Harvey Kellog (yes that Kellogg on your sugary cereals) hated masturbation and thought it would rot your child's brain. He thought spicy foods made you sexually excited and so people were convinced that giving your child bland foods would keep the hormones at bay. This made Kellogg put into production all these bland tasting cereals and graham crackers (which had little to no sugar back then) to keep your children from popping boners. He also would brag about not having sex with his wife of 20 years.