Two questions about Tudor society/culture and behaviours..?

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Nervous_Nora

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I have two questions...

1) How did the Tudors (who didn't take baths very often) clean their hair? Mine goes greasy after 3 days so I can't imagine what theirs must have been like if they didn't bathe that regularly.

2) I understand that sexually around that time there was little "variety" in positions etc. I have read that when Anne Boleyn came back from the French court she had learned certain "techniques" such as fellatio. I once read that Henry VIII called them "perversions." Can anyone tell me any more on this?
 
ok so I'm not an expert about this topic, i just love this certain time period a lot and know quite a bit.

1. Certain places and people didn't bathe that often. The Tudor's bathed more frequently than others. Henry Tudor and later on Elizabeth had a fear of illness so they took baths more often to abstain from getting sick. He had rules ensuring everyone at court must be healthy.

2. Fellatio is oral sex. The french were very promiscuous and weren't afraid to hide it. The English on the other hand found things like this very intimidating. By perversions it could be something along the lines that she used her mouth to tempt him into things. He wasn't used those things and would have done what she wanted for more.
 
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