The Weird Sex Lives of Women Inside An Ottoman Sultan’s Harem
The dark secrets of the Ottoman house of beauty.
Glories of the old days are often talked about, and many people think that times were good back when wars were fought with honor using sword and shield and people still cared about integrity. But looking back, people refuse to accept the state of repair society in general was. There was violence in plenty, and although for men it mostly resulted in losing their property or their lives, for women it was being used until they died or being made into the property.
In times like that, what did it mean to be in the Ottoman Sultan’s harem? Was life unended slavery, or did the women have a say in what kind of life they lead? Unchecked lust is one of the seven deadly sins, and there was great debauchery in the Sultan’s harem, where the most beautiful women of the empire resided, often trained from childhood about the rules of pleasure and the expectations that were held of them.
Prisoners in a paradise of pleasure.
Secluded from the world inside a maze of beautiful courtyards and secret doors, the women of the harem were impossible to spy upon by prying eyes. It was a completely different world from what the outside rabble lived in, with beautifully tiled rooms in…
