AUTHOR, PHD CANDIDATE AND ONLINE CREATOR ESME JAMES WANTS US TO REMEMBER THAT HUMANS HAVE ALWAYS BEEN A LITTLE BIT FREAKY IN THE BEDROOM.
It’s all too easy to think of our historical ancestors as uptight, prudish individuals who only ever managed to get their rocks off by accidentally looking at someone’s fully clothed ankle before dying of disease at the ripe age of 32. After all, medieval peasants were probably more concerned with surviving the latest plague sweeping through their villages than exploring their own sexual preferences, right?
Not necessarily, according to Esme James,