09-21-2008, 01:59 AM
3dR3 Wrote:i wonder if those pirate wenches had herpes?
They probably had all sorts of things. Without antibiotics, the treatments for venereal diseases were worse than the disease itself.
Interestingly enough, Anne Bonney and her friend Mary Read - both shipmates of the infamous Calico Jack Rackham - escaped the gallows because they were pregnant. Jack was not so lucky. He was hanged, and his head was displayed on a pike as a warning to others.
Ooops, I crapped my pants