My wife and I were discussing the movie “The Last Tango In Paris” starting Marlon Brando. In one scene in the movie his character rapes a girl anally and he uses butter as a lubricant. Besides discussing how distasteful that scene was we got on the subject of sexual lubricant. We use a product called Wet, that is a silicone based (I think it’s silicone based), extremely slippery and comes in all kind of flavors so there isn’t a problem if it were to come (cum?:dubious:) into contact with your mouth.
Well, we got to thinking … Mom and Dad probably had KY Jelly, but what did Grandma and Grandpa use? My wife suggested Vasoline, but I couldn’t imagine getting that in thought butthole or vagina. I was thinking maybe like the movie couples resorted to items like butter or perhaps olive oil. So, what did they use?
I am minded of a Playboy cartoon showing the comically aged couple getting into bed. The husband is searching the medicine cabinet. The wife is yowling, “Vaseline, hell! I need Poli-Grip!”
Vaseline was the all-purpose bodily lubricant until well after WWII.
You’re also assuming that couples used any kind of lubricant in earlier eras - some did, certainly, but I’d bet a lot of wives just got up sore in the morning, through mutual ignorance and male lack of consideration.
I would not be surprised if they used snail slime. Can easily be harvested taste is not bad and rejuvenates itself with any added moisture, lasts a long time.
In the early 1970’s I had a little backyard snail farm for food puposes but became facinated with its lubricational abilities when I was washing my hands after handling. I ate a few snails raw just to see what they were like and the slime is really not bad. I attempted to create a slime gatherer by forcing the snails up the sides of the glass with water and then every few days scraping the glass with a razor blade so the powder could be rehydrated later. Unless I could have sold the powder for about $3,000 an ounce it did not prove to be cost effective.
Well, I would agree that in theory that is correct. However if your night if passion extends for more than twenty minutes and goes on for hours I think that the use if lubricant is essential. Not to mention, some sex acts require the use of them. Certain prices and even hands jack a natural lubricant.
Saliva and/or Vaseline is what I recall from my own youth and what I have come across in novels. The two together work better than either alone. Oil with water seems to reduce fricktion. I also recall people talking about Crisco back in the Seventies. It seems to me that plain water makes things “squeaky” so I don’t get the hot tub trope… is that a real thing or is it just how they deal with nudity on TV and in films. I recall an old Frank Zapa lyric: “Dear Sweet God/you were the American Dream/and now you smell/like Vaseline”. That sticks in your head. I bet folks used mineral oil in the US before Vaseline… you read a lot about mineral oil being around in old books. People drank it, massaged each other with it, etc. Before that probably cooking oil. When I looked up where the expression “tossing salad” came from people kept referring back to a comedy routine about guys in prison using salad dressing as a courtesy. On a TV doctor show I saw recently an OB/GYN did a demo showing why she though coconut oil was the bomb when it came to greasing lady parts.
Some how I really really doubt this… people like Rick Perry had small families even back then. Plus I have read some ostensibly true diaries from back when and people got up to stuff. I believe the expression “nothing new under the sun” applies. BTW I was shocked that early Kinsey studies showed many more straight guys doing each other in the Forties and Fifties than research suggests do so today.
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