Until the end of the 10th century, the Russians were pagans with all the consequences arising from this fact. They associated “making love” with a holiday, joy of life and fun. There were practically no bans.
Harlots and dancing by the fire
One man could have several wives (up to four). If a woman got little affection in marriage, she immediately found herself consolation on the side. No one kept any virginity before the wedding. The young girl could quite calmly look for a suitable sexual partner for future marriage, not confining herself to kissing during the search.
The girl in such a search was called a harlot from the word "to fornicate", which meant "to seek", "is in search". This concept had no negative connotation. Both girls and boys could have an affair with one or more partners. At the mass festivities dedicated to the god Yarila, who was associated with fertility among the Slavs, ritual orgies also took place.
How the Slavs called the process itself and the parts of the body involved in it
There were no taboos regarding vocabulary either. The Rusichi called everything by their proper names, and even showed great invention in this matter. In addition to the well-known obscene words and their derivatives, the Slavs also used more allegorical expressions to name male and female genital organs and the intercourse itself.
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"Making love" among the Slavs meant: "eat", "podzhitsya", "teter". In Moscow dialects there was a version of "cockroach". To perform actions of a sexual nature on someone - "yarit" (on behalf of Yarilo), "drukat", "eat".
The male genital organ was also called differently: "eldak" (variants - "eldyk", "elda"), "end", "horseradish", "ud" (the concept of "pleasure" came from the word "ud"). Also in the ancient Slavic medical books (a kind of "manuals" for practicing healers), the member was called "likhar", "firs", "mehir".
Rusich called the head of the genital organ "bald head" or "bun", groin - "quilted", male testicles - "shulyats" or "nuclei". The seminal fluid in the same Slavic medical books was called "raft". Equally colorful names existed for the female genital organs.
The external genital organs of a woman bore the long-forgotten name "moon" (or "moon"). It can be found in ancient Slavic conspiracies. The labia were called "closures" and the vagina was called "meat doors."
Ordinary Russians did not really think about the internal structure of women. The healers and midwives were aware that a woman bears a child in a certain special place, which they called "mother", "spool", "insides" or "bottom" (womb).
And common to both sexes was the name of another part of the body that attracted a lot of attention - it is "goose" or "goose" (the same as the buttocks). So, in addition to obscene vocabulary, our ancestors had a whole layer of more modest, but no less colorful expressions.