Lured into bread: Women in the medieval period would knead DOUGH on their body before baking it and serving it to their husbands in the hope it would improve their sex lives, historian reveals

Daily Mail ^ | 22 April 2022 | Harry Howard

[rlmorel]

Yes. I read that, another good book is “The Year 1000: What Life Was Like at the Turn of the First Millennium”

I enjoyed the observation that one of the things that would be jarring to a 21st Century person would be the lack of noise pollution.

That is one of those things that, the more you dwell on it, the more you realize how pervasive the presence of sound is today, sound that isn’t the wind blowing through the trees or even an occasional water wheel.

[roving]

The story says they think the fish story was made up, as in never happened.

[Larry Lucido]

And that’s how Mrs. Baird got her start. The rest is history.

[doorgunner69]

Layered up in dough??

Those guys liked chubbos?

[Mozzafiato]

Taking an occasional shower might have worked if they tried it

[bunkerhill7]

Winner!

[alexander_busek]

And today, women feed their pyjama-boy husbands vegan lattes and soy yoghurt brimming with quasi-estrogens.

Regards,

[Mark17]

Thus was born the yeast infection.

Unless it was the other way around. 👎

[chronicles]

Reminds me of a friend who went to France and was completely turned off of bread after observing French workmen in sweaty shirts going home with a baguette under their arm.

[Sacajaweau]

Historians love to make sh** up. I questioned one about an item...She said it makes it more interesting. When I hear historians...I expect the truth. If you’re making it up...it’s called a “lie”.

[heavy metal]

and to this day it’s still all about the dough...

[Robert357]

Actually there are craft beer recipes where vaginal natural yeasts is used to make the beer. I remember one being “real Blonde beer.”

[Ahithophel]

Kneady women, not unique to Middle Ages.

[NetAddicted]

Best part of this post are the comments.

[wardaddy]

Voodoo believing women from New Orleans to Rio to Barranquilla and Santo Domingo to Lagos and Lusaka put mense blood in meats and sauces to control their men

So they believe

I was married to one

She is on my homepage see if you can pick her out...lol

[jacknhoo]

Thank goodness they finally realized the power of bacon.

[fso301]

Read (or listen) to Wm Manchester’s The World Only Lit by Fire if you want to be shocked about the Middle Ages and how things were for people

Or just travel to a third world country today.

[Chickensoup]

Since sex was the primary entertainment of the middle ages I doubt the veracity of this article.

[vladimir998]

“They use bidets…we don’t.”

They invented it, but not all Europeans own one. The French even fell out of love with the bidet for a couple of decades:
https://www.connexionfrance.com/article/Practical/Property/Make-sense-of-The-French-bidet

When I last worked in Europe for a good stretch of time (granted this was in 2001) there were no bidets in my two-floor penthouse apartment in Florence, nor in my apartment in Paris. None of the homes I visited in Germany that year had one either.

[KarlInOhio]

So kneading bread on your body or baking with honey infused in medieval body funk is romantic, but if I serve drinks I mixed with my swizzle stick I am considered a "pervert"? Talk about a double standard.

I think much of journalism, history and science writing are attempts at taking the one case in a million and making it appear commonplace.