jamellebouie:

Sex advice in the 17th century:

Subtitled “the Secrets of Generation displayed in all the parts thereof”, the manual offers “a word of advice to both Sexes in the Act of Copulation”. One passage, quoted in The Routledge History of Sex and the Body, advises that “when the Husband commeth into his Wives Chamber, he must entertain her with all kinds of dalliance, wanton behaviour, and allurements to Venery, but if he perceive her to be slow and more cold, he must cherish, embrace, and tickle her … intermixing more wanton Kisses with wanton Words and Speeches, handling her Secret Parts and Dugs, that she may take fire and be inflamed to Venery.”

You know, this probably holds up pretty well.