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erieangel -> RE: History of vibrator and how it relates to today's war on women (3/12/2012 6:12:51 PM)
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ORIGINAL: thompsonx
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Amazing isn't it. This same mindset is why women also rode sidesaddle, when they learned to ride horses at all.
Women have not always ridden side saddle.
That being said I have seen women going over the fences side saddle and passing men in the process. It is beyond me how they manage that feat of atheleticism...ridership of the first order.
We are talking about the mindset of the Elizabethan Period, in which women who were permitted to learn to ride a horse were forced to do so using a sidesaddle. Today, some women chose to for various reasons, but they are not forced. In the Elizabethan Period, most women, even those of so-called "gentle" birth were not permitted to ride horses, as it was viewed as being to manly. But the sidesaddle does date back to the Middle Ages and it was developed, partly, because women wore dresses, partly because it was thought that riding astride would provide too much sensation "down there".
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