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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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Maybe any period pre victorian.
Maybe last week.
Everyone will see things a little differently and as someone once said, "history is bunk"
Maybe we should all strive to make right now the kinkiest time in history!
Could be fun  |
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By *ensualMan
over a year ago
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Peter Tupper has a great book "A Lover's Pinch: A Cultural History of Sadomasochism". What needs to be remembered is that ordinary peoples lives were not recorded. It is only since the 1950s that ordinary folks view of sex/ kink were recorded. What we have before that is the writing of the rich and noteworthy. It should also be remembered kink acts were criminal as well as immoral so writers were discreet about what they did. People burnt their diaries or their surviving relatives did.
There are records from criminal cases and all that entails.
Human emotions have not changed much so there has always been kink but not necessarily as we know it, and some periods in history were more permissive than others. It also needs to be noted the restricted position of women in society, and only wealth afforded privacy and the space to carry out indecent acts regularly and the education to record it.
So I agree with MRK on this |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"Peter Tupper has a great book "A Lover's Pinch: A Cultural History of Sadomasochism". What needs to be remembered is that ordinary peoples lives were not recorded. It is only since the 1950s that ordinary folks view of sex/ kink were recorded. What we have before that is the writing of the rich and noteworthy. It should also be remembered kink acts were criminal as well as immoral so writers were discreet about what they did. People burnt their diaries or their surviving relatives did.
There are records from criminal cases and all that entails.
Human emotions have not changed much so there has always been kink but not necessarily as we know it, and some periods in history were more permissive than others. It also needs to be noted the restricted position of women in society, and only wealth afforded privacy and the space to carry out indecent acts regularly and the education to record it.
So I agree with MRK on this "
Some basic Google revealed:
Ancient Mesopotamia is one of the first known advanced human civilizations, and it is where our first records of BDSM originate from. If you have no idea where Ancient Mesopotamia was located, it was in the Middle East near Iraq should you view it on a modern map.
These records span all the way back to circa 3100 BC. So long ago, in fact, that this is when and where writing itself was first brought about, allowing humans to, for the first time without pictures, record bits of our history by using the written word.
So yes, BDSM is as old as writing |
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