WEBVTT - The Puritan Guide To Gettin' Some 0:00:08.285 --> 0:00:10.325 School of Humans. 0:00:11.765 --> 0:00:15.725 I hope this hasn't happened to you, but one day 0:00:15.965 --> 0:00:19.365 you might find yourself thrown back in time. Yes, I've 0:00:19.405 --> 0:00:22.925 been reading Outland or whatever. But let's say you're thrown 0:00:22.965 --> 0:00:27.525 back in time and you land in colonial America sometime 0:00:27.645 --> 0:00:32.885 between sixteen fifty and seventeen seventy six. Sixteen fifty because 0:00:32.925 --> 0:00:37.005 that's about half a century after the colonizers founded Jamestown, 0:00:38.005 --> 0:00:41.445 so there are more settlements around, and seventeen seventy six, 0:00:41.525 --> 0:00:45.725 you know, because some stuff happened if you recall. 0:00:45.765 --> 0:00:47.485 And so in this episode, I have. 0:00:47.525 --> 0:00:51.565 Outlined some very important information for your time traveling self, 0:00:52.045 --> 0:00:55.685 specifically a guide on how you might get some hanky 0:00:55.765 --> 0:01:01.485 panky and the colonial American past. Sure information on farming 0:01:01.525 --> 0:01:04.925 and forging might be more helpful for your survival, but 0:01:05.525 --> 0:01:07.685 don't we need a little love to get through the day. 0:01:08.565 --> 0:01:11.645 So this episode is about how one might court and 0:01:11.725 --> 0:01:14.005 do some rolling in the hay back in the day. 0:01:14.565 --> 0:01:22.165 Cue the theme song. This is American filth. I'm Gabby Watts. 0:01:22.245 --> 0:01:25.125 Every week I tell you a filthy story from American history. 0:01:25.525 --> 0:01:29.365 This week's episode the Puritan Guide to get in some 0:01:47.925 --> 0:01:50.445 First of all, we got to dispel some myths about 0:01:50.445 --> 0:01:54.365 the past. As we've all seen on the most historically 0:01:54.445 --> 0:01:59.805 rigorous podcast American filth throughout time, no matter what legislation existed, 0:01:59.885 --> 0:02:04.205 no matter what religious or social control was going on, people. 0:02:03.925 --> 0:02:05.885 Have always been getting their free gone. 0:02:07.205 --> 0:02:11.045 And the Puritans they actually liked it when people had sex, 0:02:12.005 --> 0:02:13.845 not in like a fetish sort of way. They just 0:02:14.005 --> 0:02:18.325 liked it, you know, because remember they were in colonial America. 0:02:18.365 --> 0:02:20.005 They're creating a new society. 0:02:20.205 --> 0:02:25.885 Ergo, they wanted babies, and specifically sparkling white ones. And 0:02:25.925 --> 0:02:27.965 in case you didn't know, the way that you make 0:02:28.005 --> 0:02:33.245 a baby is usually through fornication. In fact, in colonial society, 0:02:33.765 --> 0:02:36.245 that was the only way to have one, if you 0:02:36.245 --> 0:02:39.405 can believe it, they didn't have IVF back then. Back 0:02:39.445 --> 0:02:45.565 then IVF stood for ivoraciously fornicate. That being said, yes, 0:02:45.605 --> 0:02:50.085 they wanted their Puritan white babies, but the Puritan overlords 0:02:50.525 --> 0:02:54.885 also wanted people to make those babies inside marriage. But 0:02:55.045 --> 0:03:00.045 unfortunately for them, premarital sex was quite common in colonial America. 0:03:00.485 --> 0:03:02.885 How do we know, Well, there were a huge number 0:03:02.925 --> 0:03:06.965 of births that happened a few months after couples got married, 0:03:07.445 --> 0:03:10.005 not nine months or more. We're talking like a month 0:03:10.085 --> 0:03:13.885 or two. And that wasn't because the Lord gave puretons 0:03:13.925 --> 0:03:18.725 a shorter gestation period. Oh no, it was because the Puritans, 0:03:18.965 --> 0:03:25.365 just like us, were fucking before marriage. Truly, the figures 0:03:25.405 --> 0:03:29.125 are astounding. By the mid eighteenth century, between thirty to 0:03:29.165 --> 0:03:32.885 forty percent of brides getting hitched in New England were pregnant, 0:03:33.965 --> 0:03:37.845 and then, of course there are also plenty of bastards also. 0:03:37.965 --> 0:03:41.725 Premarital sex wasn't the only crazy stuff people were doing 0:03:41.805 --> 0:03:46.645 back then. Some couples even lived together without getting married. 0:03:47.525 --> 0:03:49.325 Ugh, and that's not all. 0:03:50.485 --> 0:03:54.005 In sixteen ninety five, this clergyman named John Miller was 0:03:54.085 --> 0:03:58.005 traveling through New York and was utterly scandalized by what 0:03:58.125 --> 0:03:58.685 he saw. 0:03:59.045 --> 0:04:00.045 This is what he said. 0:04:00.765 --> 0:04:04.605 There are many couples living together without ever being married 0:04:04.685 --> 0:04:08.045 in any manner of way, many of whom, after they 0:04:08.085 --> 0:04:11.925 have lived some years so quarrel and thereupon separating, take 0:04:12.005 --> 0:04:15.285 unto themselves, either in New York or some other province 0:04:15.925 --> 0:04:20.885 new companions. How can such expect that God should bless 0:04:20.925 --> 0:04:24.005 them together while they live in open contempt of His 0:04:24.125 --> 0:04:25.445 holy ordinance? 0:04:27.205 --> 0:04:28.365 They honestly didn't use. 0:04:28.285 --> 0:04:31.405 Periods back then. This quote was so confusing, but you know. Basically, 0:04:31.485 --> 0:04:34.125 what he's saying is that when he was traveling through 0:04:34.165 --> 0:04:37.205 New York, he observed couples who had lived together without 0:04:37.245 --> 0:04:40.325 being married, and then those couples broke up, and then 0:04:40.365 --> 0:04:46.285 they found other people to couple with, literally insane serial monogamy. 0:04:46.325 --> 0:04:47.005 We don't do that. 0:04:47.045 --> 0:04:51.525 We just do one monogamy, not a bowl of serial monogamy. 0:04:51.565 --> 0:04:52.365 Oh no, we're just. 0:04:52.365 --> 0:04:54.525 Doing one oat monogamy. 0:04:55.525 --> 0:05:00.565 And John Miller was scandalized even more because on his 0:05:00.645 --> 0:05:03.645 adventure he also discovered that a lot of marriages were 0:05:03.685 --> 0:05:09.885 only happening because the lasses were prego. He said, those 0:05:09.925 --> 0:05:13.125 in who ernest do intend to be married together are 0:05:13.165 --> 0:05:17.485 in so much haste that commonly enjoyment precedes the marriage, 0:05:17.725 --> 0:05:20.805 to which they seldom come till a great belly puts 0:05:20.845 --> 0:05:24.205 it so forward that they must either submit to that 0:05:24.485 --> 0:05:29.085 or to shame and disgrace, which they avoid by marriage. 0:05:29.165 --> 0:05:32.005 He's like, they're just getting married because they're pregnant. 0:05:32.045 --> 0:05:34.925 They put the belly forth. Ah. 0:05:35.805 --> 0:05:38.565 And then it gets even crazier for John Miller because 0:05:38.645 --> 0:05:41.725 another huge issue that he observed was that people were 0:05:41.765 --> 0:05:46.445 getting married in very unofficial ways instead of by clergy 0:05:46.805 --> 0:05:50.845 or the state, just a Rando would do it, and 0:05:50.885 --> 0:05:54.685 then because they didn't have official marriage contracts, people would 0:05:54.685 --> 0:05:59.405 be marrying and divorcing just willy nilly from all these 0:05:59.445 --> 0:06:03.925 godless things he saw. Miller declared this conclusion about the region. 0:06:04.405 --> 0:06:08.165 The scandal in Ea that flows from hints is very great. 0:06:11.485 --> 0:06:14.445 And sure, none of this bodes well for mister Miller, 0:06:15.365 --> 0:06:18.725 but for us it's great because if you're a horny 0:06:18.805 --> 0:06:23.685 time traveler going back to this period, don't fear Puritan 0:06:23.765 --> 0:06:28.645 pussy is near, or don't be afraid colonial cocks are 0:06:28.725 --> 0:06:34.085 ready to trade. So first things first in this Puritan 0:06:34.165 --> 0:06:37.965 guide to sex. First, obviously you need to find a 0:06:38.045 --> 0:06:41.245 sexual companion, and the best way to do that is 0:06:41.245 --> 0:06:45.125 to go to a dance. Dancing, as the Puritans would 0:06:45.125 --> 0:06:49.125 tell you, is very scandalous and very sexual. Purreton writer 0:06:49.285 --> 0:06:53.565 Philip Stubbs thought dancing was very cringe and sinful. This 0:06:53.645 --> 0:06:57.805 is what he said. Dancing, as it is used, or 0:06:57.925 --> 0:07:02.565 rather abused, is an introduction to horedum, a preparative to 0:07:02.765 --> 0:07:07.845 wantonness in all kinds of ludint For what's smooching and 0:07:08.005 --> 0:07:12.565 slabbering one of another? What filthy groping and unclean handling? 0:07:12.645 --> 0:07:17.285 Is not practice everywhere in these dancings. Honestly, this is 0:07:17.325 --> 0:07:20.005 a good point for mister Stubbs, whose name, by the 0:07:20.045 --> 0:07:23.485 way is short for mister stubby Penis. Whenever I dance, 0:07:23.525 --> 0:07:27.325 I'd be slaughtering all over the boys, and you will 0:07:27.325 --> 0:07:31.485 be slabbering as well, Time Traveler, because how they danced 0:07:31.525 --> 0:07:32.005 back in the. 0:07:32.005 --> 0:07:33.725 Day was truly freaky. 0:07:34.445 --> 0:07:38.445 Sometimes in rural areas, the settlers would dance the real 0:07:38.805 --> 0:07:44.005 which featured fast and energetic movements basically one step away 0:07:44.045 --> 0:07:44.965 from fornication. 0:07:45.605 --> 0:07:47.165 But that wasn't nearly as bad. 0:07:46.965 --> 0:07:50.765 As the jig, oh God, where sometimes you would bounce 0:07:50.965 --> 0:07:54.005 up and down. If a pear to minister saw that, 0:07:54.445 --> 0:07:59.085 they would perish on the spot. But let's say you 0:07:59.325 --> 0:08:03.205 time traveler. You're thrown back in time as a young lass, 0:08:03.845 --> 0:08:06.205 and through the power of time travel and magic and 0:08:06.245 --> 0:08:09.645 whatever we're doing, you have also somehow been dumped into 0:08:09.685 --> 0:08:13.085 a wealthier family where your dad is like a magistrate 0:08:13.205 --> 0:08:14.565 or something, and you're. 0:08:14.405 --> 0:08:15.485 The eldest daughter. 0:08:17.245 --> 0:08:21.125 So you're at the dance, maybe doing the jig, and 0:08:21.205 --> 0:08:25.205 you meet a farmer's sexy ass son. Let's call him 0:08:25.285 --> 0:08:28.005 Thomas Smith Thomas, and your name. 0:08:27.885 --> 0:08:29.965 Is Sarah Bradford Hall. Why not? 0:08:31.405 --> 0:08:35.325 But Thomas Smith, Thomas, his breeches are tight and his 0:08:35.485 --> 0:08:40.605 teeth sparkle as brightly as the newly minted shillings, mostly 0:08:40.645 --> 0:08:42.125 because he's lost several and. 0:08:42.085 --> 0:08:42.885 Has fake ones. 0:08:44.085 --> 0:08:47.965 And when your eyes meet for the first time whilst 0:08:47.965 --> 0:08:52.165 you're doing the jig, you're like, Wow, I want to 0:08:52.245 --> 0:08:54.045 slobber all over that guy. 0:08:54.765 --> 0:08:59.765 I love how his spittle glimmers in the light. And 0:08:59.845 --> 0:09:00.885 so what would you do. 0:09:00.885 --> 0:09:03.845 Next to get it on with a farmer's son. What 0:09:03.925 --> 0:09:06.125 would you have to do to get his worker in 0:09:06.165 --> 0:09:12.805 your barn? Well, you could get married. But the problem 0:09:12.885 --> 0:09:15.125 is that in the early seventeen hundreds a lot of 0:09:15.125 --> 0:09:19.805 colonial settlements didn't have their own clergy or minister. You'd 0:09:19.805 --> 0:09:22.085 have to wait until one of them traveled to your town. 0:09:23.285 --> 0:09:25.645 But you want tom As Smith Tom to squeeze in 0:09:25.725 --> 0:09:27.325 your utters faster than that. 0:09:28.005 --> 0:09:30.085 So what you could do instead, which. 0:09:29.925 --> 0:09:32.325 Was slightly common at the time, is you could do 0:09:32.365 --> 0:09:36.325 a hand fasting ceremony. This is what mister stubby Dick 0:09:36.485 --> 0:09:39.285 was referring to when he was talking about these marriages 0:09:39.285 --> 0:09:43.125 that weren't quite marriages. Hand Fasting is a tradition that 0:09:43.205 --> 0:09:46.685 started in medieval Europe, it was a form of betrothal 0:09:46.805 --> 0:09:50.125 or a temporary marriage, where a couple would clasp hands 0:09:50.205 --> 0:09:52.565 and commit to each other for a year and a day, 0:09:53.045 --> 0:09:56.365 and then after that they could either formalize their relationship 0:09:56.405 --> 0:10:00.005 into a permanent marriage or go their separate ways. It's 0:10:00.085 --> 0:10:02.765 kind of like signing a lease with your boyfriend. This 0:10:02.845 --> 0:10:05.045 has to work out for at least a year, and 0:10:05.085 --> 0:10:09.205 then we'll see where it's going. Anyway, hand fasting made 0:10:09.205 --> 0:10:12.445 its way over to colonial America and there wasn't really 0:10:12.525 --> 0:10:15.725 the whole year in a day thing anymore. But sometimes 0:10:15.725 --> 0:10:19.765 this is how people declared their union full stop, because 0:10:19.805 --> 0:10:22.885 then it was more socially acceptable to live with someone 0:10:23.165 --> 0:10:26.925 and start your life together slaughtering and then a lot 0:10:26.965 --> 0:10:30.365 of these couples never actually finalize their marriage with a minister. 0:10:32.925 --> 0:10:35.885 So let's say you're super horny for Thomas Smith Thomas 0:10:36.125 --> 0:10:39.085 that you want to jump the gun or leap the musket, 0:10:39.125 --> 0:10:41.805 as they said back then. You want to get serious 0:10:41.845 --> 0:10:44.125 with this guy, you want to jump his bones. You 0:10:44.165 --> 0:10:47.005 don't want to wait on a minister, and also you 0:10:47.005 --> 0:10:49.405 don't want to get your parents involved, because your fancy 0:10:49.485 --> 0:10:53.645 magistrate father would not approve because Thomas Smith. Thomas's family 0:10:53.765 --> 0:10:57.885 is poor back then. Oftentimes the gal's dad would pay 0:10:57.885 --> 0:11:00.085 a dowry for her, and the dad doesn't want to 0:11:00.125 --> 0:11:03.165 give money to a spendthrift or to someone who wouldn't 0:11:03.285 --> 0:11:06.285 use it to pay for your comfort. Instead, they're using 0:11:06.285 --> 0:11:08.845 it for piggies and their slop. You don't want that, 0:11:09.965 --> 0:11:14.885 but you're Sarah Bradford Hall. You're young, you're dumb, you're hot. 0:11:15.605 --> 0:11:19.085 You've known Thomas Smith Thomas for two weeks. Both of 0:11:19.125 --> 0:11:22.805 your loins are bursting. You want to get your freak on, 0:11:23.645 --> 0:11:28.045 but make this relationship semi official for propriety's sake, So 0:11:28.085 --> 0:11:33.125 you decide to have the hand fasting ceremony. It's a 0:11:33.205 --> 0:11:37.325 simple ritual where you hold hands and make vows in 0:11:37.365 --> 0:11:41.205 front of a witness, and often in colonial America, this 0:11:41.365 --> 0:11:46.165 ceremony was performed by a blacksmith. Literally, they'd clasp hands 0:11:46.205 --> 0:11:47.805 over the anvil. 0:11:47.525 --> 0:11:53.125 Which would signify the strength of their relationship. Wow love metaphors. 0:11:54.405 --> 0:11:58.605 You and Thomas Smith Thomas make your vows over the anvil, 0:11:59.125 --> 0:12:02.165 and instead of a ring, he gives you half a 0:12:02.285 --> 0:12:04.245 broken silver sixpence. 0:12:04.565 --> 0:12:06.605 He keeps the other high You keep yours. 0:12:07.045 --> 0:12:10.965 And this signifies the union yay money, and now that 0:12:11.005 --> 0:12:14.165 you're hand fasted, well, it should be slightly more socially 0:12:14.205 --> 0:12:20.645 acceptable for you to start slobbering on each other. So 0:12:20.765 --> 0:12:22.965 that's one way to do it. That's one way to 0:12:23.005 --> 0:12:25.085 start humping Thomas Smith Thomas. 0:12:25.645 --> 0:12:27.405 But suppose the blacksmith is a. 0:12:27.325 --> 0:12:30.285 Friend of your dad's and you don't want your magistrate 0:12:30.365 --> 0:12:33.965 father breaking up the whole thing. So what you and 0:12:34.045 --> 0:12:37.285 Thomas Smith Thomas do instead is you have a hand 0:12:37.325 --> 0:12:45.125 fasting ceremony in private. But you, Sarah Bradford Hall, aren't 0:12:45.165 --> 0:12:49.245 an idiot. You know that you need witnesses because even 0:12:49.245 --> 0:12:52.205 though you think you love Thomas Smith Thomas. 0:12:52.525 --> 0:12:55.925 He might be a fuck boy of your He might be. 0:12:55.885 --> 0:12:59.645 Doing this hand fasting ceremony to get under your skirts 0:12:59.685 --> 0:13:03.365 one time and then dump your ass, leaving you alone 0:13:03.605 --> 0:13:09.085 and possibly pregnant. So what young women did back then 0:13:09.365 --> 0:13:15.005 was to make sure this private ceremony had witnesses. Specifically, you, 0:13:15.365 --> 0:13:18.805 Sarah Bradford Hall, got two of your friends to hide 0:13:18.805 --> 0:13:21.525 behind a piece of furniture that's in the same room 0:13:21.525 --> 0:13:25.205 where you're hand fasting, so that they would overhear the vows. 0:13:25.845 --> 0:13:29.605 And then if Thomas Smith Thomas did dump you after 0:13:29.645 --> 0:13:33.685 you did some Puritan penetration. You would have some witnesses 0:13:34.085 --> 0:13:36.445 that you could summon in court being like, hey, the 0:13:36.485 --> 0:13:40.085 reason I'm pregnant is because of this motherfucker, and then 0:13:40.125 --> 0:13:44.245 they would be like, yes, this motherfucker. That's why it's 0:13:44.285 --> 0:13:46.965 just so important to have female friends, so that you 0:13:47.045 --> 0:13:50.565 have someone to witness your secret and not so legal 0:13:50.605 --> 0:13:53.965 marriage to a farmer's son and ensure that if you 0:13:54.045 --> 0:13:56.805 got pregnant by said son, he would have to take 0:13:56.845 --> 0:14:00.845 responsibility for it. That's why I keep my galpals around. 0:14:01.605 --> 0:14:04.045 And here's something that's kind of curious. At the time, 0:14:04.965 --> 0:14:08.565 if a girl got pregnant, often the courts would trust 0:14:08.645 --> 0:14:12.205 her account. They'd be like, oh, that guy impregnated you, 0:14:12.525 --> 0:14:16.605 I believe you. But throughout the eighteenth century post Revolution, 0:14:16.845 --> 0:14:20.765 that trust declined and more and more courts were like, huh, 0:14:20.805 --> 0:14:24.365 you actually need more proof than just your word that this. 0:14:24.245 --> 0:14:25.605 Guy got you pregnant. 0:14:26.205 --> 0:14:29.925 So, yeah, you could say that in early colonial America 0:14:30.445 --> 0:14:33.885 they were definitely in a more hashtag believe women era. 0:14:35.045 --> 0:14:37.365 Of course, we have to take that with an enormous 0:14:37.485 --> 0:14:40.765 grain of salt because of the whole Salem witch trials 0:14:40.965 --> 0:14:46.365 thing and other various stuff that they accuse women of. Anyway, 0:14:46.445 --> 0:14:50.445 if you can believe it, the Church didn't like hand fasting. 0:14:50.965 --> 0:14:53.645 They're like, this is too loose, it's too pagan, it's 0:14:53.645 --> 0:14:56.645 too uncertain. It's not in front of God, it's in 0:14:56.645 --> 0:14:59.805 front of an anvil. And as we went through the 0:14:59.845 --> 0:15:04.205 eighteenth century, hand fasting mostly fell out of favor and 0:15:04.285 --> 0:15:08.245 most developed colonial areas because marriage had become a legal 0:15:08.285 --> 0:15:12.805 institution and the Church had firmly asserted its control over 0:15:12.845 --> 0:15:16.045 the process. The Puritans were like, we're not going to 0:15:16.125 --> 0:15:17.885 be left out. We get to say what it means 0:15:17.925 --> 0:15:21.725 to be married. But in more remote areas where they 0:15:21.765 --> 0:15:25.845 still didn't have a minister or clergy, hand fasting continued 0:15:26.605 --> 0:15:29.765 and it became a symbol of the early frontier spirit. 0:15:30.325 --> 0:15:34.205 It was practical, flexible, and grounded in mutual consent. 0:15:41.005 --> 0:15:41.885 So, okay, okay. 0:15:42.005 --> 0:15:44.885 In this guide so far, we've established that one way 0:15:44.965 --> 0:15:49.205 to have more socially acceptable sex in the colonial era 0:15:49.525 --> 0:15:53.205 was to hand fast. Just do a little hand fasting, 0:15:53.805 --> 0:15:57.445 then you can do a little banging. But let's say 0:15:57.485 --> 0:16:01.365 that Thomas Smith Thomas actually came from. 0:16:01.325 --> 0:16:06.685 A richer farmer family, that your magistrate judge fought approves of. 0:16:08.125 --> 0:16:11.365 So you and Thomas Smith Thomas don't have to sneak around. 0:16:12.045 --> 0:16:15.645 What might happen instead is that your dad and your 0:16:15.725 --> 0:16:20.245 mom might invite Thomas Smith Thomas over and let him 0:16:20.285 --> 0:16:25.165 sleep in your bed. I know, crazy, We'll be right 0:16:25.205 --> 0:16:30.645 back after these soothing advertisements. Another bizarre thing that was 0:16:30.685 --> 0:16:34.405 going on during the colonial American period was this thing 0:16:34.565 --> 0:16:35.605 called bundling. 0:16:37.005 --> 0:16:38.805 And no, it's not bundling your. 0:16:38.685 --> 0:16:41.405 Clothes together to hide the edibles in your carry on 0:16:41.485 --> 0:16:44.165 luggage on the plane from Detroit to Atlanta. 0:16:44.325 --> 0:16:45.165 Was that specific? 0:16:45.245 --> 0:16:51.165 It doesn't matter, don't tell the cops. Bundling, or as 0:16:51.165 --> 0:16:54.805 it was also known, bed courting, was when a dude 0:16:55.005 --> 0:16:57.245 went over to a lady's house and they spent the 0:16:57.365 --> 0:17:01.325 night together in the same bed, under the supervision of 0:17:01.405 --> 0:17:02.685 the parents. 0:17:03.365 --> 0:17:05.485 Like they weren't in the room, but they were around. 0:17:05.485 --> 0:17:08.045 And I know this. 0:17:08.085 --> 0:17:13.405 Sounds absolutely cuckoo bananas. How could this be allowed in 0:17:13.565 --> 0:17:18.085 Puritan colonial America. Well, it was justified by the Bible, 0:17:18.165 --> 0:17:22.885 of course. In the Bible there's nowhere that it says bundling. 0:17:23.245 --> 0:17:26.045 But some people think that this one story was used 0:17:26.045 --> 0:17:27.045 to justify it. 0:17:27.445 --> 0:17:28.845 The tale of Ruth. 0:17:28.685 --> 0:17:34.045 And bo As in the story, Ruth lies at Boaz's feet, says, 0:17:34.045 --> 0:17:38.005 signal her interest in marriage, a gesture that was intimate 0:17:38.165 --> 0:17:43.245 but not sexually suggestive. And that's what bundling was all about, 0:17:43.285 --> 0:17:45.485 being close but not sexual. 0:17:46.685 --> 0:17:48.765 It was practiced so these two. 0:17:48.765 --> 0:17:51.325 Young people could get to know each other in an 0:17:51.365 --> 0:17:56.645 intimate way, not sexually though, just chatting or whatever, because 0:17:56.685 --> 0:17:59.685 I'm sure two young people in their horned up prime 0:18:00.005 --> 0:18:03.165 spending the night in the same bed would never result 0:18:03.205 --> 0:18:09.685 in anything beyond talk. Of course, many Puritans did not 0:18:09.805 --> 0:18:13.605 approve of this, Like one bishop said about bundling that 0:18:13.725 --> 0:18:17.045 it's the smartest thing Satan's done since he put the 0:18:17.085 --> 0:18:23.845 snake in the garden. Notable Puritan minister Jonathan Edwards chastise 0:18:24.005 --> 0:18:27.685 young people for the practice of bundling, and he even 0:18:27.805 --> 0:18:32.845 used his daughter's untimely death to criticize them. In seventeen 0:18:32.885 --> 0:18:36.685 forty six, he said this, my daughter died a week ago. 0:18:37.325 --> 0:18:40.485 She has died in order that you might stop fondling 0:18:40.525 --> 0:18:46.045 women's breasts, that you might stop bundling. Yes, that is 0:18:46.125 --> 0:18:50.405 exactly why she died of tuberculosis. I'm sure, so that 0:18:50.445 --> 0:18:55.165 you would stop fondling breasts and bundling. Just know if 0:18:55.205 --> 0:18:58.485 I die soon, that is exactly the reason I died 0:18:58.525 --> 0:19:03.925 as well. But all this seems a bit dramatic. Okay, 0:19:05.045 --> 0:19:09.605 but that you time traveling Sarah Bradford Hall, who comes 0:19:09.645 --> 0:19:12.605 from a wealthy magistrate family. By the way, I don't 0:19:12.645 --> 0:19:14.365 know why I did this whole time traveling thing. It's 0:19:14.365 --> 0:19:16.685 a bit much now that I'm still doing it. But 0:19:16.725 --> 0:19:17.485 we're getting back to it. 0:19:17.525 --> 0:19:17.765 Okay. 0:19:17.805 --> 0:19:20.845 Let's say that your family doesn't really care about this 0:19:20.965 --> 0:19:23.925 bundling issue. They're like, it's fine, it's cool, it's convenient. 0:19:24.645 --> 0:19:28.085 Your dad actually sees it as protecting you, because much 0:19:28.125 --> 0:19:32.005 like hiding your gal pals while hand fasting, bundling young 0:19:32.085 --> 0:19:36.685 couples also offered protection for daughters. It's basically like, hey, 0:19:37.205 --> 0:19:39.405 you're the only dude that she's been in a bed with. 0:19:39.485 --> 0:19:43.245 If she gets pregnant, it's your fault. It's kind of 0:19:43.325 --> 0:19:45.885 like how you have some cool parents in high school 0:19:45.885 --> 0:19:47.965 who are like, it's okay to drink, just make sure 0:19:48.005 --> 0:19:51.565 you do it in the house. It also made sense 0:19:51.605 --> 0:19:54.565 to have a spend the night party because often people 0:19:54.605 --> 0:19:56.045 lived really far apart. 0:19:55.765 --> 0:19:56.405 From each other. 0:19:57.325 --> 0:20:00.325 Maybe bundling was the only way for you and Thomas 0:20:00.365 --> 0:20:03.245 Smith Thomas to actually court and get to know each other. 0:20:03.925 --> 0:20:06.445 You're not going to casually see him out and about. 0:20:06.925 --> 0:20:10.645 He's busy doing farm stuff and he can't just come 0:20:10.725 --> 0:20:13.565 over for an hour because he lives several hours away. 0:20:14.805 --> 0:20:18.605 So your parents invite Thomas Smith Thomas over and let's 0:20:18.605 --> 0:20:25.365 get ready to bundle. So obviously your parents invited him 0:20:25.445 --> 0:20:27.965 over on a Saturday because he doesn't have to work 0:20:28.005 --> 0:20:31.845 the farm on Sunday. On Sunday, the vegetables stopped growing 0:20:31.885 --> 0:20:34.885 and the field stopped needing tending as they are also 0:20:34.965 --> 0:20:36.405 resting like the lord. 0:20:38.125 --> 0:20:40.685 So he arrives. You all eat a meal. 0:20:41.365 --> 0:20:44.365 Your dad probably asks a lot of weird questions. 0:20:44.445 --> 0:20:48.325 You hate it. But then the sun goes down and you. 0:20:48.245 --> 0:20:53.445 And Thomas Smith Thomas and your parents head to the bedroom. 0:20:53.725 --> 0:20:56.605 You usually sleep in here with your other sisters, but 0:20:56.645 --> 0:20:59.245 they have been banished to your brother's rooms for this 0:20:59.405 --> 0:21:03.085 fine occasion. Also, at the time, a lot of houses 0:21:03.125 --> 0:21:07.765 didn't have living rooms, and so often bedrooms were also 0:21:07.845 --> 0:21:10.645 the places where you gathered to hang out with your family. 0:21:11.485 --> 0:21:14.885 But you and Thomas Smith Thomas get into the bed okay, 0:21:14.925 --> 0:21:18.205 and you keep your clothes on and your parents have 0:21:18.285 --> 0:21:21.645 two options for the bundling. One they might bust out 0:21:21.685 --> 0:21:25.165 the bundling board. This was a slab of wood that 0:21:25.285 --> 0:21:27.325 was the length of the bed, about a foot or 0:21:27.365 --> 0:21:30.805 so high, and they slide that between you and Thomas 0:21:30.845 --> 0:21:34.365 Smith Thomas, and wow, there's no way you're getting past 0:21:34.445 --> 0:21:40.245 that boundary. Another option that was used was a bundling sack. 0:21:41.085 --> 0:21:45.165 Here there are two options. One is a sack that 0:21:45.245 --> 0:21:48.445 was big enough to fit both you and Thomas Smith Thomas, 0:21:48.765 --> 0:21:51.165 but it was sewn down the middle long ways so 0:21:51.205 --> 0:21:53.645 you couldn't touch again, no. 0:21:53.645 --> 0:21:56.525 Way for them to get out of that sack full proof. 0:21:57.365 --> 0:21:59.165 But if your parents didn't have their hands on that 0:21:59.285 --> 0:22:02.045 type of sack, what they might instead do is have 0:22:02.165 --> 0:22:04.765 two smaller sacks that you just put on over your 0:22:04.805 --> 0:22:08.005 clothes and tie at the waist. Now, that is an 0:22:08.045 --> 0:22:11.925 impossible obstacle for both of you. No way you'll be 0:22:12.005 --> 0:22:14.965 able to get through that barrier. Who needs a chassis 0:22:15.045 --> 0:22:17.325 belt when you have a burlap sack? Am I right, 0:22:18.085 --> 0:22:21.725 burlap sacks. That's actually my favorite type of birth control. Honey, 0:22:21.765 --> 0:22:22.965 don't worry about a condom. 0:22:23.045 --> 0:22:24.245 I got a burlap sack. 0:22:25.725 --> 0:22:29.045 But anyway, once one of these obstacles is in place, 0:22:29.205 --> 0:22:33.725 your parents leave you and Thomas Smith Thomas alone, where 0:22:33.765 --> 0:22:38.765 no touching of breasts or slabbering will occur. The goal 0:22:38.845 --> 0:22:41.885 of this, in your parents' view, was that you and 0:22:41.965 --> 0:22:44.405 Thomas Smith Thomas are going to get to know each 0:22:44.405 --> 0:22:48.885 other in a private, yet chaste setting. But you're a 0:22:48.925 --> 0:22:53.765 time traveling modern woman in a puritan's horny teenage body. 0:22:54.565 --> 0:22:57.085 You might loosen your tongue in more ways than one. 0:22:59.725 --> 0:23:03.605 And indeed, it was known amongst the people of colonial 0:23:03.645 --> 0:23:08.205 America that bund wasn't as chaste as your parents wanted 0:23:08.245 --> 0:23:11.085 it to be. Like, here's a song from the time 0:23:11.285 --> 0:23:15.605 about bundling. I don't know what the tune is, but 0:23:15.765 --> 0:23:19.245 let's just make it up. I'm just going to talk 0:23:19.325 --> 0:23:22.245 over this music. Even though this music does not represent 0:23:22.285 --> 0:23:26.565 the period at all. That's fine. So maidens say, if 0:23:26.765 --> 0:23:31.765 through the nation bundling should quite go out of fashion, 0:23:32.525 --> 0:23:35.125 Courtchip would lose its sweets and. 0:23:35.125 --> 0:23:39.485 They could have no fun till wedding day. This sucks. 0:23:39.485 --> 0:23:40.005 I'm sorry. 0:23:40.085 --> 0:23:45.085 A bundling couple went to bed with all the clothes 0:23:45.205 --> 0:23:51.405 from foot to head that the defense might seem complete. 0:23:51.485 --> 0:23:57.565 Each one was wrapped in a sheet. But oh, this bundling, 0:23:57.685 --> 0:24:00.165 such a witch. The man of her. 0:24:00.405 --> 0:24:05.685 Did catch the itch, and so provoked was the cat 0:24:06.325 --> 0:24:12.405 that she of him. A bastard catched ladies, don't you 0:24:12.525 --> 0:24:17.405 hate it when you catch a bastard? Ugh, it's so contagious. 0:24:20.205 --> 0:24:22.365 But we really did learn something here that they were 0:24:22.365 --> 0:24:27.365 also using sheets, not just burlap sacks to separate. 0:24:26.965 --> 0:24:28.245 The youths in the bed. 0:24:28.405 --> 0:24:30.485 So really it's just like whatever you had on hand, 0:24:30.565 --> 0:24:34.725 a sack, a sheet, a portrait of your grandma. 0:24:35.045 --> 0:24:35.605 Whatever. 0:24:37.445 --> 0:24:41.605 Now that's what I call music negative one hundred. Let's 0:24:41.605 --> 0:24:43.925 get the TikTokers to do a dance to that one. 0:24:44.685 --> 0:24:46.925 You guys can probably tell them a bit manic right now. 0:24:47.285 --> 0:24:50.725 But see Sarah Bradford Hall, You wouldn't really catch a 0:24:50.885 --> 0:24:55.325 bastard in this scenario because Thomas, miss Thomas, is in 0:24:55.405 --> 0:24:58.125 the bed, so your dad knows who impregnated you, and 0:24:58.165 --> 0:25:00.525 so your dad will just make him marry you and 0:25:00.565 --> 0:25:01.485 everything will be fine. 0:25:01.565 --> 0:25:04.605 Everyone wins, Huzzah, yay bundling. 0:25:07.885 --> 0:25:14.005