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10 Strangest Old-Timey Beliefs About Sex

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10 Strangest Old-Timey Beliefs About Sex
We can't make this stuff up.
Weird beliefs about sex throughout the ages.

In the early 20th century, one "old wives' tale" went: if a woman sneezed after sex, she would expel the semen from her body and would not get pregnant. Well, beliefs were even weirder before we came upon something wonderful that we like to call "medical science". Here are 10 weird sex beliefs from a time when if you didn't know something about science, you'd just make it up.

Read the weird beliefs on Ranker: 10 Strangest Ancient Sex Beliefs

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