7 Penis Myths Men Wished Women Would Stop Believing
Yes, the penis really is a "use it or lose it" organ.
Throughout history, women didn't know what to do with men's penises. During the Renaissance, the first time many young maidens saw a penis was on their wedding night. Before that day, mothers only taught their daughters to preserve their chastity and not get pregnant.
By the seventeenth century, naughty authors began printing sex manuals known as "whore's dialogues." In these first pornographic books, a wiser, older sexual expert would advise a younger sexual neophyte on how to please a man.
One such book was The School of Venus, or the Ladies Delight, Reduced into Rules of Practice. Its advice is surprisingly modern, albeit comical.
In The School of Venus, a benighted virgin named Katherine is taught by her sexual cohort Roger how to handle a "Tarse" (penis). When Catherine asks Roger how many times a man's penis will get hard in a night, he replies, "…some will Fuck Nine or Ten times in a Night, some Seven or Eight, but that is too much, Four or Five times in a Night is enough for any Reasonable Woman." (1)
I am not sure what these "reasonable" seventeenth-century kids were up to, but they clearly were not getting much sleep.
