cracked:Hopefully this will put a fabulous new spin on “Talk Like a Pirate Day.”5 Ways Pirates Were
cracked:Hopefully this will put a fabulous new spin on “Talk Like a Pirate Day.”5 Ways Pirates Were Way More Modern Than You Realize#4. Pirates Had a Form of Gay Marriage[P]irates had a form of civil partnership called matelotage, a marriage-like institution wherein two male pirates shared all of their … OK, we need to think of another word for “booty” here — let’s go with “loot.” Additionally, each would name the other as his sole inheritor. While this makes a good I Now Pronounce You Chuck and Larry kind of economic sense, in as much as it was essentially the only kind of financial security a pirate could hope for, some commentators argue that these relationships were also romantic in nature, possibly because matelots could routinely be observed having sex with each other.In 1645, the French government of Tortuga decided to import thousands of prostitutes to try to neutralize the rampant homosexuality, because this was the type of response that governments had to things. Not that it’s likely to have made a great deal of difference, though — pirates in a matelotage shared everything, including wives. Adding mixed threesomes to the gay love-in was probably not the outcome France was going for, but, France being France, we can never truly be certain.Read More -- source link
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