Leucrotta pseudomonoceros 🔞 · 3 answers · 2y
Today I learned that some codpieces actually were designed to stick up. Imagine Meta going around with a silly little metal perma-boner omfl
https://twitter.com/goodreddit/status/1629851365630529537?s=46&t=SeoanUuz79pG3NHOLdA-zQ
omg I actually know about these. I didn't even click the picture!
They actually just did this is the name of fashion. No meaning like it was meant to intimidate the enemy or any other thing like that, they just genuinely thought it's what looked good back then.
A Wikipedia search yielded this cursed image of "fashionable" codpieces from the 1500's.
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/a3/Cod-Piece_by_Wendelin_Boeheim.jpg
