that's verse presents terrifying things
the ancient Greeks did number one
doctors would eat your earwax if you
were to visit a doctor in ancient Greece
it would be normal practice for them to
taste your earwax they believed that the
taste of the earwax could help your
doctor get a diagnosis this is not only
disgusting but depending on your
symptoms the doctor would run their
fingers through your phlegm or lick your
vomit to check for the sweetness
Hippocrates is the doctor who started
all of this he believed that the body
was a collection of fluids and each had
its own taste if the taste was off you
would be considered sick number two
people wiped with rocks after going to
the bathroom toilet paper wasn't
available until it was invented in 16th
century Europe since people still needed
to clean up after using the bathroom
they had to do something about it
while most ancient Greeks would pile up
pebbles in the bathroom and then used
them to wipe after a while all these
rocks were kind of hard to come by so
they would use no more than three stones
after each time they went to the
bathroom doesn't sound like the least
painful way to wipe but I guess that's
all they had back then number three
older men would trade roosters for sex
with boys pedophilia is not a new
problem in the world back in ancient
Greece it was also an issue back then
Greek man would take young boys as
lovers it was typically the older man
who took the initiative he would
approach a boy before he hit puberty and
he would offer the boy a live rooster in
exchange for the boys consent the older
man would think that they were doing a
good deed by showing the boy the ways of
the world oftentimes the men would pick
the best-looking boys when the boy would
start growing pubic hair he would be
considered old and tossed out of the
older man's life when the boy was able
to grow a full beard he was considered
an adult and it was up to him to give a
rooster to a new young boy
number four ancient Greek athletes sold
their sweat
this is one of the strangest things the
ancient Greeks did when ancient Greek
athletes were running or grappling with
other men they often did so when they
were naked at the end of the
competitions they would be covered in
filth they had a group of slaves called
glorious collectors who would be
responsible for scraping the sweat and
filth
from the athletes and then putting it in
jars later that filth and sweat was sold
as medicine the people who bought the
jars would rub the sweat of the athletes
on their skin the ancient Greeks
believed that it would help cure aches
and pains number 5 the treatment of
women's illnesses was disgusting ancient
Greeks believed that women were impure
they believed that disgusting women
issues could never affect men therefore
the issues needed to be treated
accordingly for example if a woman was
suffering from discharge she would need
to drink a mixture of wine and roasted
mule poof
if a woman would have a miscarriage they
would put cow poop on the woman women
with women's issues did not have a very
easy back in ancient Greece number 6
sneezing was considered a method of
birth control a physician in ancient
Greece named Sir Ana's told women that
it was their responsibility to keep from
getting pregnant
he told these women that after having
sex they would need to squat sneeze and
rinse so that they would not get
pregnant
since everybody today knows that's not
how it works it just sounds silly to us
this wasn't the only contraceptive
method taught by Soaring us either he
also stated that if a man were to rub
honey or cedar resin on his genitals
before having sex that he couldn't get a
woman pregnant
number 7 slaves in ancient Greece had to
wear chastity belts the ancient Greeks
who owned slaves didn't want them
wasting their time having sex with other
slaves that's why the owners would often
force them to wear chastity belts a
metal ring would be put on the man's
genitals that would seal the penis up so
tightly that even getting excited could
be extremely painful the only way to get
the ring off would be with a key number
8
they believed that lesbians had giant
clitoris
the ancient Greeks didn't understand the
concept of two women loving each other
that's because they couldn't understand
sex without penetration they had to
believe that something was happening so
they assumed that lesbians were born
with gigantic clitoris and that is what
caused a woman to be a lesbian the idea
lasted for over a hundred years number
nine
they used crocodile poop as face lotion
the ancient Greeks believed that
crocodile poop had healing properties
for the skin because of that they would
use the crocodile poop to smear on their
scars and the fine lines and wrinkles on
their face it may have been disgusting
but they really believed that it was
truth number 10 using an oxen to pull
heavy loads this may not be as bad as
the other practices by ancient Greeks
however since it is still a practice
that's used today and it helped with
crop growth it deserves a place on our
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