Posted on 02/15/2021 5:56:54 AM PST by SoFloFreeper
Flickering candlelight, brushed fingertips, a longing gaze... such are the petticoat ways of the historical lesbian romance. Mona Fastvold's feverish frontier drama The World to Come, out today, becomes the latest entry in that burgeoning genre — a love story of deep and delicate feeling if not strict originality....
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“ew.com”. Appropriate.
““ew.com”. Appropriate.”
I was thinking the same thing, and then I thought maybe they were hot 1800’s lesbians. OK, probably not.
Personal Hygiene and sanitary issues non existent, not hot at all.
I really like Vanessa Kirby. But not playing a lesbian!
So a female version of Broke Back Mountain?
I just can’t. Has no appeal to this straight female
People took baths 3-4 times per year. Can’t imagine the smell from down that
NOTHING is sacred to these deviants.
Did women shave their legs and armpits back then? What did people use for personal grooming? I mean, they didn’t get Pantene and deodorants at the general store did they? It’s a wonder the human race survived.
Nothing
Nope no modern razors to do so.
Lye soap and horse linament.
As to comments about hygiene or lack of affecting relationships of that era I'd bet the act of cunnilingus was not as prevalent as today for straights or lesbians. Reading many period pieces of the 17th and 18th centuries lead me to believe that many males never saw a vagina their entire life unless they frequented prostitutes.
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