• snooggums@midwest.socialEnglish
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      2 years ago

      Check out some ancient pottery, bath walls, and a lot of art to see that most sex acts and kinks have been round for millenia.

    • Dreyns@lemmy.mlEnglish
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      2 years ago

      Hey my man gotta explain the white stains on his shirt to the church !

    • steeznson@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
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      2 years ago

      They were definitely geeking out on something! I had this piece of visionary poetry in my dissertation:

      I entered - where - I did not know,

      Yet when I found that I was there,

      Though where I was I did not know,

      Profound and subtle things I learned;

      Nor can I say what I discerned,

      For I remained uncomprehending,

      All knowledge transcending.

      • John of the Cross, Verses Written on an Ecstasy.

      NB “ecstasy” as we know it did not exist in the 16th Century 😂

      • shani66@ani.socialEnglish
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        2 years ago

        Iirc ecstasy originally meant being fucked up. Blackout drunk or so high you aren’t present anymore, so it checks out

        • steeznson@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
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          2 years ago

          I think it refers to a state of religious fervor here. Like people speaking in tongues in modern day evangelical churches.

          In terms of drugs they have been used throughout history but in this era it would need to be mushrooms or potentially in a highly rare cases ergot affecting communal grain supplies. Should emphasise that there is no evidence whatsoever that these writers/artists were using psychoactive substances.