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Nov. 17th, 2004 01:11 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
anotherusedpageI'm tired. I've misplaced a jar of pasta source. That's about as interesting as it gets in Jessieland today.
And the virginity test thing isn't as interesting as you might like to think. The rennaisance chastity test was based on the ones that the vestal virgins allegedly had to take in Roman times, when they had to carry water from the tiber to their temple in a sieve. The only way to pass was to cheat and use a seive that had been coated with an oil-based cosmetics product - vestal virgins apparantly had bucket-loads of the stuff to keep their hands pale and soft. For demonstration purposes, our tutor used Portia, a tea strainer and some vaseline...
And the virginity test thing isn't as interesting as you might like to think. The rennaisance chastity test was based on the ones that the vestal virgins allegedly had to take in Roman times, when they had to carry water from the tiber to their temple in a sieve. The only way to pass was to cheat and use a seive that had been coated with an oil-based cosmetics product - vestal virgins apparantly had bucket-loads of the stuff to keep their hands pale and soft. For demonstration purposes, our tutor used Portia, a tea strainer and some vaseline...