Toward the beginning of Aristophanes’ Lysistrata, an ancient Greek play about an enterprising group of women who decide to withhold sex from their partners until they agree to end the Peloponnesian War, the titular character leads her fellow woman in an oath. “No lover or husband shall ever come near me with an erection,” she has them all proclaim. “I shall live my life at home unfucked, dressed in my sexy clothes and perfectly made up, so that my husband will burn with desire for me.
Early commentary written in the margins of the play call the position “licentious and meretricious” — slutty and trashy, very cool — and suggests it could be what we would now call doggy-style. This is because “a cheese grater is a big knife,” the argument goes, and such big knives often had handles adorned with carvings of “ivory lions crouching down.” Per this interpretation, the position would involve a woman bent over in the posture of a decorative-utensil lion.
Cheese graters were both functional and prized, according to Prince — they have been found in Etruscan tombs, which would make them an imported luxury good — and lionesses were associated with regality and sensuality.
Well, reading that clickbait was anti-climatic.
What a shame!
I’m not at all sure I want to know.
it was the original cat daddy
I'm more surprised Cheese Graters existed back then
I invented this position. I am the creator of SEX !
A+ for click bait headline.
WhoresofYore This is why we should pay attention to history lessons.
WhoresofYore I'm going to get woman on top but face sitting? What are the lips and nose of a man but nails on a prized cheese grater
The 'totally soaked' tag on the story makes it.
Cheese grater👇🏽 = stubble
WhoresofYore xnchit
WhoresofYore I love science.
WhoresofYore I once got a rather toothy blow job that felt quite cheese-grater-ish... 😏
WhoresofYore Given that lions have barbed penises, maybe a cheese grater would be right up a lioness's alley?
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The words 'Cheese' and 'Grater' should not be involved.
WhoresofYore That's one way to scratch that itch.
WhoresofYore I didn’t realize the Ancient Greeks had cheese graters
Sounds kind of like dry humping or non-penetrative, woman on top type thing. Maybe face-sitting. Amazoning or pegging at a push... hhmm.
WhoresofYore We call that “Wednesday” at my house
WhoresofYore But what if Aristophanes meant that the Women adopt the position AS SHOWN by the lioness sculpted into the cheese grater handle?
I'm just impressed that we know the ancient Greek word for Cheese Grater.
All I will say is that we don't talk about it for humanitarian reasons. People don't understand the risks, is all.
WhoresofYore they had cheese graters in 411 BCE!?!
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Interesting
Buddy, I know what the lioness on the cheese grater is.
Or twerking? How would that translate in 2000 years?
Seriously. The country is falling apart and you're writing about sex positions?
Cause cheese grater existed in 411 BC.🙄🙄🙄 They didn't.
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