Kissing.

2sheikhs

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Years ago, and I mean in Victorian times and earlier, nobody had toothbrushes, toothpaste or mouthwash and everyones teeth were rotten. Did people still kiss each other? ( On the lips I mean).
 
Dental hygiene has existed for about 5000 years.

To flesh that out a bit, here's a relevant link

<a class="postlink" href="http://www.abc.net.au/science/articles/2008/05/28/2244461.htm" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;">http://www.abc.net.au/science/articles/ ... 244461.htm</a>
 
In Victorian times people rubbed noses as a sign of affection.

In Roman times the Emperor Commodus is alledged to have served human excrement up at a banquet and made them all eat it and then kiss each before letting tigers loose on them.
 
I saw a programme saying that the Victorians had black teeth and the women used fans not to cool themselves but to stop people smelling their mouths. Maybe I should have narrowed it down to Victorians.
 
Rascal said:
In Victorian times people rubbed noses as a sign of affection.

In Roman times the Emperor Commodus is alledged to have served human excrement up at a banquet and made them all eat it and then kiss each before letting tigers loose on them.

If this happened today it would be on youtube.
 
2sheikhs said:
I saw a programme saying that the Victorians had black teeth and the women used fans not to cool themselves but to stop people smelling their mouths. Maybe I should have narrowed it down to Victorians.

Nonsense
 
mcfc2607 said:
Rascal said:
In Roman times the Emperor Commodus is alledged to have served human excrement up at a banquet and made them all eat it and then kiss each before letting tigers loose on them.
Seems like a lovely bloke.

He was up there with Nero and Caligula in terms of depravity.

One of them, i cant recall which as its a long time ago since i read about it, had anybody with a small cock executed, despite himself being endowed with what historians called a walnut.

It was fascinating stuff reading about the excesses of these people as they considered themselves Gods.
 
Hm. I guess in the throws of lust they didn't care.

Don't forget they would have been smelt of b.o. , covered with puss filled scabs, nit ridden hair, fishy fannies and cheesy knobs.

I bet the smell of your lovers breath was the last thing they were bothered about :0
 
Ducado said:
2sheikhs said:
I saw a programme saying that the Victorians had black teeth and the women used fans not to cool themselves but to stop people smelling their mouths. Maybe I should have narrowed it down to Victorians.

Nonsense

I think he might mean the Elizabethans. When sugar was first introduced into the country, only the very rich could afford it. Strange as it may seem to us, black and rotting teeth were seen as a sign of immense wealth.
 

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