I learned that wealthy women during the Classical Greek era performed autoerotic acts, such as inserting dildos inside their vaginas, as a substitute for heterosexual intercourse with their respectable partners, and also, to incite pleasure and desire. It is more on a conscious level that not only men, but also women masturbate and that acts of autoeroticism have already existed for many centuries. I feel like I would be more comfortable accepting ancient Greek values because their values of sex are still important today, and also because they were more open to acts of autoeroticism than societies of the medieval period. Masturbation is a part of life, as an individual discovers what sexual behaviors he or she likes, and furthermore, it is a safe alternative to having sexual intercourse with the opposite sex without knowing the consequences that will result. So, sex education is another aspect that I adopted from the classical and medieval periods. I learned that sexual acts as we do in modern society are exactly those of ancient societies preformed in
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