History
Every era is certain it has finally got sex right, and every era is the one the next one laughs at. The history is worth knowing for exactly that reason: it is a running record of confident, well-meaning, catastrophically wrong advice.
1894
Cornflakes were invented to suppress masturbation
The breakfast cereal was a medical intervention, and it is not a joke.
1952
Hysteria was a diagnosis for two thousand years
Named after the womb, and applied to almost any woman who complained.
1564
The condom is far older than rubber
Linen, soaked in chemicals, and tied on with a ribbon.
1973
Homosexuality was a mental illness until 1973
The vote that changed it was decided by evidence nobody had asked for.
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Rome had a contraceptive plant, and used it up
Worth its weight in silver, and harvested into extinction.
1819
Pompeii’s erotic art was locked away for 180 years
Not censored by the Romans. Censored by the people who dug it up.Browse by shelf
A shop has two hundred of them. One of them is right for you.
Seven questions: who it is for, what sounds appealing, how quiet it has to be, what it may cost. Out comes one type — with what to look for, what it costs, and what nobody prints on the box.
- Sixteen types, from a bullet vibrator to a blindfold
- No brands, no shop, nothing for sale here
- Two minutes, and nothing is saved
Find out what you both want — without either of you saying it first.
You each answer twenty questions on your own, and neither of you ever sees the other’s answers. Only what you both said yes or maybe to comes back. A no and a maybe look identical from outside, so saying no costs nothing — which is what makes the answers honest.
- Six sets of twenty questions — three by depth, three by subject
- An evening you can actually plan, built from what you agreed on
- No account, no names, and it deletes itself after a few days
General information, not medical advice. Anything persistent or painful belongs with a doctor, who has heard it before.