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  2. Co-sleeping - Wikipedia

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    Co-sleeping or bed sharing is a practice in which babies and young children sleep close to one or both parents, as opposed to in a separate room. Co-sleeping individuals sleep in sensory proximity to one another, where the individual senses the presence of others. [1] This sensory proximity can either be triggered by touch, smell, taste, or noise.

  3. Bundling (tradition) - Wikipedia

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    A bundling board was a large plank that was placed in between the couple and the bundling sack was a sleeping bag that was sewn up the middle. Periods of popularity for the practice of bundling often align with eras of enhanced social position for women, as this custom afforded a high level of protection against premarital sex. [5]

  4. Timeline of social nudity - Wikipedia

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    c. 650 BC: In Sparta, both women and men occasionally appear nude in certain festivals and during exercise. [4] See Gymnopaedia. First century AD: Historian Diodorus Siculus records that the Celts commonly fight naked in battle. [5] Nudity is mentioned several times in the New Testament, none of the examples give it a sexual connotation.

  5. This young couple lives like it's the 1800s - AOL

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    Facebook/Sarah A. Chrisman Sarah is a writer about the Victorian era, while Gabriel works in a bookshop: Their "entire life is an ongoing research project into our favorite decades of the 1880's ...

  6. History of nudity - Wikipedia

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    While Christians were mainly concerned about mixed-gender bathing, which had been common, Islam also prohibited nudity for women in the company of non-Muslim women. [101] In general, the Roman bathing facilities were adapted for separation of the genders, and the bathers retaining at least a loin-cloth rather than being nude, as was the case in ...

  7. Fainting room - Wikipedia

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    One theory for the predominance of fainting couches is that women were actually fainting because their corsets were laced too tightly, thus restricting blood flow. [2] [3] By preventing movement of the ribs, corsets restricted airflow to the lungs and, [citation needed] as a result, if the wearer exerted themselves to the point of needing large quantities of oxygen and was unable to fully ...

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  9. Lowell mill girls - Wikipedia

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    In 1813, businessman Francis Cabot Lowell formed a company, the Boston Manufacturing Company, and built a textile mill next to the Charles River in Waltham, Massachusetts.. Unlike the earlier Rhode Island System, where only carding and spinning were done in a factory while the weaving was often put out to neighboring farms to be done by hand, the Waltham mill was the first integrated mill in ...