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The Internet Didn’t Invent Anal Sex
It’s all to easy to imagine that our own time and our own experiences are somehow different from all other times and all other human experiences that have gone before. Unfortunately, this kind of naïve thinking usually leads to incorrect conclusions about a wide variety of topics.
Recently I read an article written by a woman on the topic of anal sex. Her assumption was that porn videos have normalized anal intercourse in modern (e.g. US) society whereas before (some unspecified time, presumably the 1950s when people had bobby-socks and milkshakes instead of carnal intercourse) anal sex was neither known about nor practiced by normal middle-class folk.
Perhaps a few people are vaguely aware that the classical Greeks had a lot of anal sex. For the most part, however, we seem to be quite ignorant about history. How many know, for example, that the Greek vases on display in museums are actually unrepresentative, chosen precisely because they don’t display the more typical vase scenes of licentious abandon?
The vast majority of Greek vases are hidden away in storage rooms because curators don’t want to upset the Great American Public. The result: hardly anyone knows that the Greeks were a wild bunch and for the most part preferred anal over vaginal every day of the week. One classic Greek posture for the anal-loving male was to sit on…
