#encyclopedia of mediaval age put together in less than a page. goodness gracious

[werspinna]

Its nolonger Sunday, but before people are wondering what Wolfs views on Romance, Sex and Sexuality are and how that influences shipping here, lets discuss middle european views influenced by middle-medieval-times christianity for while Wolf is agnostic, she still is influenced by the christianity she grew up in. In short version: There is a big difference between the modern lense and what goes on through Wolfs lense. In a modern lense, Wolf would be panromantic and pansexual and also a little bit of a hoe. The little bit is a lie, but Wolf is at least charming enough that she would sing for someone she is flirting with. And considering she is a laysister and has no own room to which she can redraw to with a partner | partners, what she is singing is definitive Walter von der Vogelweides “ Under der linden”. In a longer version: Wolf makes a very big difference between “Love” and “Acts of flesh”. Love is good, love is always allowed, love should always be followed. Be it platonic, familair or explicit romantic love. She is after all living in a convent, so there are a few nuns who had married eachother, because Love is the purest emotion as holy as the christians gods love for the people and loving someone in any way is worshipping this love that god has for the people. Now what are her views on sexuality? Wolf has none. For her attraction and Love are the same and as Love is good and pure, so is the attraction to someone else as long as one keeps it as purely Love and fondness. And as Love should be spread, she has no problems in announcing, sharing and following that attraction by flirting or specifically seeking that person out, spend time with them, support them. In her mind everyone can love every other person, because as said, loving another person is an act of worship- the purest worship possible- so someone chosing to love someone and serve and support them freely out of their own will because they want to and have joy in that, is putting honour on them as they commit to this pure act.

In contrast to that what are her views on Sex? Wolf has a very narrow definition of Sex itself: Everything that is not between a husband and a wife in the married bed specifically for concieving a child, is not Sex. Why is marriage so important in that? Because if Sex only goal is to concieve a child, than this child needs to be taken care of and marriage is the specific contract that marks what property of the wife and the husband belong together and evetually will belong to the child so that noone of the familys Relatives can come over and say “Ey, that property your child will live from, is actually mine and I am not sharing it, so now your child is propertyless and will starve”. So the marriage part is the specific contract to make sure that the child is entitled to inhertance and therefor will survive and live.  Which is important because after the european marriage pattern parents usually have children in their thirties, children are send away at ten to learn a craft or work in other families and the parents (mostly the father, mother more often survive around ten years longer and remarries leading to second marriages with a stark agedierence and the wife often older than the husband) die with luck in their fifties, so the inheritance is the only thing that makes sure the children are taken care of when the parents are obviously nolonger around. As Wolf has no property and having children would mean having them and then let them die, she really will not have Sex specifically with anyone. That was the problem with her mother and father, because her mother had no dowry, which meant that there was only enough inheritance for her brother, but not enough for him to actually go out and have his own life but keep on living with his parents until they die. And splitting that already little inheritance would have meant econimocal ruin for both of them, so Wolf left. Sex and marriage are therefor under strict social rules that are generally more influenced by pagan social rules than actually christianity. The rise of Lovemarriage with Christianity actually lead to a lot of children fated for early death and poverty because of that.

So how is that working for Wolfs Sexlife? She has no Sex specifically after her definition, but that does not mean she is not sleeping with people or has Sex from a modern lense. Everything outside of marriage and not to concieve a child would be  “waste of semen” when its with someone with male genitalia or not even seen as a sexual act when it would be with someone with female genitalia or let alone not with penetration. So what in modern peoples eYes would be Sex is for her a part of  her showing her love for that person. If they are consenting to her showing it that way, that is. Wolf has no qualms in indulging and enjoying any of that with a partner, because from her eyes its after all not Sex (and therefor not bound by strict social norms as Sex and Marriage). She would however promptly recoil if a partner would bring up the idea of having children or marriage, because considering her economical state and view on social matters it would mean fating that child to poverty and early death. She would be with people or any Sex or gender, love thm, sleep with them, support them and generally be with that person in any way that would count as a romantic and | or sexual relationship,  but she would never specifically marry or have children.

#Not only a low hanging fruit but also someone who is very much going for a quickie in the next grassfield in wild nature. #headcanon #werspinna #tw: christianity #oh well discussing medieval christianity very different from the nowdays religion #encyclopedia of mediaval age put together in less than a page. goodness gracious