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Okay, just when I think studying archaic and classical Sparta can't get any weirder I get to marriage ceremonies:
They dressed the woman as a man and cut her hair and made her lie in wait in a darkened room for her husband. Nobody knows why, but one suggestion is that it was to make the husband feel more "at home" given that all his previous sexual encounters would have been homosexual.
On Argos brides even wore false beards.
They dressed the woman as a man and cut her hair and made her lie in wait in a darkened room for her husband. Nobody knows why, but one suggestion is that it was to make the husband feel more "at home" given that all his previous sexual encounters would have been homosexual.
On Argos brides even wore false beards.
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According to my classical education (i.e. Monty Python), that was just so they could attend the stoneings.
And may I say, reading your earlier posts, you have the poshest plot bunnies! I'm imagining them with monicles,in tweed, sipping cognac!
*looks down at her own plot bunny which is scratching it arse in public*
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I love that film so much. I have ever since I could understand the jokes.
and as a rather unpleasant aside, I think it was the first time I saw a cock on TV
you have the poshest plot bunnies!
Hehe. They come fully formed and waiting to be written. I'm not very good at PWP. I need plot, or at least some sort of premise.