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How to React to a Blemish in the 17th Century
Brought to you anonymously by the Academy of Pleasure in 1656.
Image courtesy of the English Broadside Ballad Archive.
Previously: Joan Who Crawled Across London.
Lili Loofbourow writes about 17th-century ideas of reading and digestion, cognitive science, Chile, and femscularity. She blogs for Ms. Magazine and as Millicent over at Millicent and Carla Fran.
Depends on which lips it appears on…
Herpes is pretty hot, man!
Let's be even more explicitly gross: let your pimple by your lip swell until just the pressure of a kiss is enough to pop it. This is what men like to taste (nectar).
@julia You know, suddenly I'm not feeling so well.
@julia I assumed this was about cold sores.
@julia ewewewewew!
Reset in the late 20th century, or forged. (Typeface!)
@atipofthehat Damn and blast! Foiled! But the title was pretty convincing, right? Leander has won me over. I am starting a cult of Leander.
I had no idea that my teenage acne was signaling that I was wet and ripe for the taking but also that I am chaste and not immodest.
I guess all that pressure from trying to shrink my labia migrated upwards to my mouth?
PLAGUE
Woah. Woah. Men…want to…drink…our cold sore juice. NOT OK, MEN. Not ok.
I really wish you could've been at Will Fisher's Rackin Lecture at Penn last year. it was all about C16/17 dildo culture, complete with engravings of ladies shopping for them.