18th-Century Characters, Including Frederick the Great, Discussion Post 38

[cahn]

Gonna go ahead and make this post even though Yuletide is coming...

But in the meantime, there has been some fic in the fandom posted!

Holding His Space (2503 words) by felisnocturna
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: 18th Century CE RPF, 18th Century CE Frederician RPF
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
Relationships: Michael Gabriel Fredersdorf/Friedrich II von Preußen | Frederick the Great
Characters: Michael Gabriel Fredersdorf, Friedrich II von Preußen | Frederick the Great
Additional Tags: Protectiveness, Domestic, Character Study
Summary:

Five times Fredersdorf has to stay behind - and one time Friedrich doesn't leave.

Using People (3392 words) by prinzsorgenfrei
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: 18th Century CE RPF
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Friedrich II von Preußen | Frederick the Great/Hans Hermann von Katte
Characters: Friedrich II von Preußen | Frederick the Great, Hans Hermann von Katte
Additional Tags: Fluff, Idiots in Love, reading plays aloud while gazing into each others eyes
Summary:

Friedrich had started to talk to him because he had thought of him as a bit of a ditz.
And now here he was. Here he was months later, bundled up in this very same man’s blankets with a cup of hot coffee in front of him, its scent mixing with that of Katte’s French perfume.
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Fluffy One Shot about one traitorous Crown Prince and the sycophant he accidentally fell for.

Comments

Re: Changing ideas of conception and of women’s sexual pleasure

[cahn]

OK, this was fascinating!

…the woman’s womb, skipping as it were for joy, may meet her husband's sperm

I too immediately honed in on this part of the passage. Wow!

The most common sex manual, the weirdly titled Aristotle’s Masterpiece, held to this theory until the 1755 edition. It included instruction about clitoral stimulation

This is kind of amazing.

in 1776, the first artificial insemination was done.

Whoa! I had no idea they could do this so early! I mean, I assume that this just means they put a sperm and egg next to each other and realized it became a zygote, but still, that's pretty impressive for 1776!

Re: Changing ideas of conception and of women’s sexual pleasure

[luzula]

Glad you enjoyed! : D

Whoa! I had no idea they could do this so early! I mean, I assume that this just means they put a sperm and egg next to each other and realized it became a zygote, but still, that's pretty impressive for 1776!
Ah no, it wasn't that sort of artificial insemination, maybe I didn't use the right term. What he did is just to put semen into a woman without the means of a penis. I mean, it's very possible that people had done this before, but this was the first time that we know of when a doctor did it. Actually it was only reported posthumously 23 years later, because he was afraid that moralists would be upset.

Re: Changing ideas of conception and of women’s sexual pleasure

[cahn]

Oh! No, I just got confused, you are using it correctly :) That's still very cool that he was able to do it so early!