It is pretty well-known now, that people make other people by having sex and getting pregnant, and that the vehicle for this tends to be ensuring that the sperm-containing semen is introduced to the ova at a time when the ova (or egg) is receptive and ready for insemination. But this has not always been the case. In fact, prehistoric beliefs and understandings about reproduction were very diffe...

by Beth Divine •

There are a number of sex manuals in existence today, and some of them are extremely ancient, while others are more modern. But who was writing these books and what was their purpose in doing so? A blog post or two on this site has already tackled the Kama Sutra, a seventeen hundred year old text which was written in order to help young wealthy and high caste people to understand how to go abou...