Sex, by its very nature, is a lot awesome and a little disgusting.

This is your mind filling in why.

Done.

So, now that we’re in agreement, do the unpleasant and imagine what sex was like for the first thousand thousand years of human existence.  It’s only recently that human have banished their own stenches with a variety of soaps, perfumed, shampoos, ablutions and paper products.  This means that as recently as a hundred years ago, all the sex in the world was the modern equivalent of homeless sex.  Your ancestors, in order to conceive your more recent ancestors, were having straight up filthy, under-the-shrubbery-in-the-park, behind-the-church-dumpster sex.

People in the 15th century took a bath around once a year.  Yes, they didn’t know any different, so the humping was just fine and sustained them carnally.  But most people of recent generations won’t even fuck on a camping trip. Before soap and washing, it was just one long camping trip.  Greasy, smokey, hairy camping.  Forever.

And therein lies the rub.

The greasy, smokey, hairy rub: if you were to travel back in time, how long do you think your gag reflex would prevent you from pressing yourself against one of those ancients?  Could you get over it?  And in that fateful moment, when your lust mutes your senses, will it be the worst sex of your life?

Or the best?

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