• RmDebArc_5@piefed.zipEnglish
      39·
      11 hours ago

      According to Wikipedia:

      The purpose of the ritual was to establish the consummation of the marriage, either by actually witnessing the couple’s first sexual intercourse, or far more often symbolically, by leaving before consummation. It symbolized the community’s involvement in the marriage.

      So in western Europe at least, people weren’t directly watching

    • Ophrys@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
      53·
      14 hours ago

      I mean you all often slept In the same room, so you’d hear and see people fuck all the time. I doubt medieval people were as ridiculously prudish as us so it wouldn’t be that suprising if it was true (at least sometimes)

      • Funkt4st1c@lemmy.worldEnglish
        10·
        9 hours ago

        Also highly doubt their sex was the same as ours in prudish christian married circles. After all, anything other than missionary for the purpose of conception was punishable by eternal damnation (which, technically, is still the case but whatever)

        Because this is the internet, i obviously believe this is asinine and if god is real i wouldnt worship that hypocrite

        • psycholocomotor_no2@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
          21·
          8 hours ago

          After all, anything other than missionary for the purpose of conception was punishable by eternal damnation

          I bet that this has never once in history been successfully enforced. The Catholic church might have said it, but it doesn’t mean that even most people followed it.

          Our conception of the European Medieval period is distorted because the Church and the aristocracy were the people who kept the most written records, but there were many people, especially peasants, erased from history because they were pretty irreverent about the Church.