We were left with insufficient evidence about the sex lives of our ancestors before the arrival of Christianity. Yet many facts indicate that it was free enough.
It has not been widespread corruption as it happened the ancient Greeks or RomansBut there were certain rites and customs which were a shade of eroticism. In addition, our ancestors did not have excessive nudity and shame before the cult of virginity.
Rituals and customs associated with nudity.For example, Ivan Kupala girl jumped over the fire and did not shy about that in this case it was necessary to lift up her skirt. Of course, about wearing the pants or trousers when it was not. By the way, and to find a flowering fern boys and girls went naked, because, according to legend, the only way it can be seen.
Naked body was of a sacred character, symbolizing the unity with nature. Only in this way it was possible to enter into resonance with it, ask for help and protection. Naked girls avoided the village to save it from ailments and afflictions, as well as scattered around your house grain to ward off from him evil spirits.
That year was fruitful young beauties came out at night naked in the field during sowing. So they shared with Mother Earth fertility powers. But they bared not only women but also men. Often in the nude, they seeded the field. Sometimes in this case to ensure that the soil is definitely a freak, not only do they seeded it with grain, but also irrigated with his seed, as it were, fertilizing it.
Another sure way to increase yields was considered a sexual act or simulation on the field during sowing harvest. And if the sky refuse to send rain, girls and women took to the crops and lifted the hems of skirts. This action was intended to initiate the sky, that it rain unto the earth.
Signs of ancient Slavs. With the nudity was due not only to many customs and rituals, but different signs. Primarily associated with childbirth. For example, if a girl wanted a child, she was a moonlit night to sleep nude or naked in the afternoon to go through the field under the scorching sun.
At the same time to sleep naked in other cases may not (especially if the night was moonless) even in extreme heat. The fact that our ancestors believed that when a person sleeps, he is helpless before the evil forces and they can take possession of them. This was especially true of women. After all, the evil spirit could covet the sleeping beauty and possess it, or at all, and dwell in it.
There were other signs associated with nudity. For example, swimming naked in the morning dew was considered a reliable way to preserve the beauty and youthfulness.
Kievan Rus. With the advent of Christianity in Kievan Rus nudity was banned. For the woman was a sin to strip naked somewhere other than baths. His wife was forbidden completely naked even with your own husband. Sleep she had a shirt, and sexual function in underwear underwear. All that was due to the nudity was announced to animals and demons.
Intimate joy - were considered shameful and allowed only between spouses and only for the purpose of conceiving a child. This was due primarily to the fact that the Orthodox Church is by all means to eradicate paganism, struggling with the pagan rites and rituals and tried to wean them from the people. Neskuchniy your night!
