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Click here for our new Web Site Superstitions: Most prevalent in Rome The superstitions of ancient Rome were broadly representative of antiquity as a whole. The Roman sages were influenced - as were the thinkers of Greece, China, India, etc. - by the accumulated tradition that sprang from the most primitive communities. Inevitably factors such as sympathetic magic, witchcraft, and the like were spread, in the absence of a sceptical scientific world-view, from one ancient land to another. It suffices to mention one prevalent Roman superstition: that the sex of a child was determined by the testicle which supplied the sperm in question. From The Illustrated Book of Sexual Records. © 1974, 1982, 1997-2001 G.L. Simons Back to Home Page Other Categories   Human Physiology     Sexual Techniques and Peformance   The Arts Abberant Sex and Deviations Animals and plants Contraception and Castration Sexology Prudery, Superstition and the Law Looking for a "hot" date? Something naughtier? ABC Fantasy Dating Hot videos, DVDs? All tastes, and streaming video! Try Adult Videos & DVDs World Sex News On nudity, pornography Erotica, Orgasms, Lesbians Click here See Also World Sex News Erotic Awards Sex Maniacs Ball Sexual Freedom Coalition Encyclopedia of Unusual Sex Practices Catastrophism!

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