LadyConstanze
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ORIGINAL: Blueswordsman Sparta was a baby factory. The State's success depended on healthy Spartan babies. Women didn't get pregnant until they were at least 18 years old (18 to 30 year old woman produced the healthiest babies). Women (Spartan baby factories) were kept comfortable and healthy. Their status improved by the number of healthy sons they birth. Through history men and women had different roles. Women ruled in the home men ruled outside the house. For the most part they were happy. Love and family were the cornerstones of human development centenaries before farming. I play with a 33 year old married woman. WE have a no sex (intercourse) agreement. Her husband and she don't consider oral, sex. I might not be 70 but at my age a BJ is better than sex or no sex. You are taking liberties with history here.... Spartan women were still ruled by men, they were indoctrinated to follow commands, first of their fathers, then of the husband. Where did you find the 18 year marriage rule, didn't find it in any of my history books. Also from a medical point of view, ideal child bearing age is actually much much younger, shortly after puberty is finished, the hips tend to be more flexible, reducing the risk of birth, especially in times when caesarians and all that modern rubbish wasn't easily available. For guys it was generally that marriage was after their military service but the Spartan society turned a blind eye if it wasn't flaunted. As for the most part they were happy, have you talked to any of them or do you rely on history books (Spartans didn't like writing about their womenfolks, so most of it is oral history or what outsiders wrote, Chinese whispers, ya know)? Fairly typical for patriarchate societies that a woman's status depends on the number of healthy sons she bears (all through history, even down to Adolf, China has a shortness of young women due that too...), difficult to imagine that a woman with her mental facilities working would be happy to be a 2nd class citizen just due to her gender. You might be projecting... And our brains weren't that much different way back then, in the grand scheme of things, really not such a long time ago... Well, great if you found somebody who doesn't consider oral sex sex, whatever floats their boat, personally I consider it a bit more intimate than a fuck, but that's just me.
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