There are many fascinating reasons to want to be a medieval person...

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However, here is one reason you perhaps wouldn't wish to be. I am watching this show. I think it might be on AcornTV though I can't remember, I'm watching it through my firestick. The name of the show is Medieval Lives and it talks about Birth, Marriage and Death in medieval times. There is a lot to be said about marriage in those times, but the one thing that rather... intrigues me is one about divorce. One way, though there are very few, a man and woman could be separated (in the eyes of the church) from her partner is to claim that he is impotent. This is one instance where I can't say I envy the medieval man's lot in life. In medieval times, a professional (*ahem* harlot *ahem*) was tasked with taking matters into her own hands... She would then testify in front of the court as to the man's ability in that department. I, uh, probably should have made a disclaimer of some sort before going this far.. Whoops? In any case, how humiliating that must have been and how un effective as well. Of course, I suppose there were many dissolved marriages where atleast one party didn't want it to be. Just as well as many unhappy partners who remained married for the sole purpose of the "test" not proving....