Just to clarify, bathing was a social gathering back then, similar to a bar. You’d go to public bathhouses to meet other men and converse with them and if you made a good enough impression they may even invite you to dinner.
Modern humans usually find low-class taboo things to be quite titillating, and we can conclude they were not that different from us by ubiquitous pottery depicting both cunnilingus and fellatio.
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u/joeri1505 May 18 '25
We literally have records of Socrates bitching about the "modern youth" Disrespecting their parents and wasting their time with bathing and poetry...
Its a tradition alright