“Charles, I borrowed this from Mary. I wish for you to use it in the bedroom with me.”
Proceeds to smack her across the face with paddle. It came with no instructions.
Paddling your children was a time-honored tradition back then, and connections between parents and sexual fantasy has been around since at least that one Greek dude. I’d bet manual not required.
I’ll betcha that one Greek dude was just the first to write it down. The trees and mountains know what kind of depraved shit our ancient ancestors were doing when everybody was living semi-naked in caves without showers to wash away the pheromones…
doest’t sound too bad
I wonder when kink first started emerging. Was it with the advent of agriculture? were the hunter gatherers getting into maybe-poison-berry play? did our homo erectus ancestors get homo erectus for their partners wearing the hides of their last meal?
In terms of being into weird random stuff probably from the very beginning. I remember reading about a study where they taught mice to associate the smell of lemons with sex, and they developed a strong preference for lemony partners. The takeaway was there ‘is’ no universal set of sexually relevant stimuli, it’s learned. So if mice do it I’d bet homo erectus was getting up to some freaky stuff on occasion.
The other definition would be non-normative sex acts, which makes you wonder when did we start having norms for how we have sex. Like I don’t imagine people were doing missionary with their clothes on in the back of the cave.
