“The Stupid Knight”, written by Gautier le Leu, is a story about a wealthy knight who was married to a lovely maiden. After the knight had gotten married to his wife, he did not have sex with her for the first year of their marriage; so both were still virgins. One day, the wife had called to her mother to come and help her out because she wanted to know why the knight had not had sex with her yet. When the wife 's mother came to the castle, she gave the knight a run down of the anatomy of the female genitalia and told him what to do with her daughter. When he was telling his mother in law what he was going to do to his wife, some other knights looking for shelter from the rain heard him and got scared. Then, came the night that both the knight
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Being a virgin and married was very unlikely during this time and if you were, others would look at the man and they would make him out to be passive. Only the women were considered passive, not men because if a man was passive, people would more than likely consider him to be gay or thought something was mentally wrong with him. The knight wasn 't experienced with sex at all and the wife was very confused as to why he had not had sex with her for the whole time they were married and they had only been married a year. According to Karras, when your married, within a year, its more likely that the woman would conceive a child. Considering the fact that both the knight and his wife were virgins and they had been married for a year, their marriage kind of goes against the codes. While your married, the spouses are supposed to have sex to conceive children and that 's it, but because the knight was a virgin they couldn 't do it. I feel as though the knight couuld have been a bit more educated in the sex area, even though he was still a virgin. If he was more knowledgeable of this, maybe he would of never had to have a teaching session with his mother in law and the knights that stayed overnight would of never gotten
Being a virgin and married was very unlikely during this time and if you were, others would look at the man and they would make him out to be passive. Only the women were considered passive, not men because if a man was passive, people would more than likely consider him to be gay or thought something was mentally wrong with him. The knight wasn 't experienced with sex at all and the wife was very confused as to why he had not had sex with her for the whole time they were married and they had only been married a year. According to Karras, when your married, within a year, its more likely that the woman would conceive a child. Considering the fact that both the knight and his wife were virgins and they had been married for a year, their marriage kind of goes against the codes. While your married, the spouses are supposed to have sex to conceive children and that 's it, but because the knight was a virgin they couldn 't do it. I feel as though the knight couuld have been a bit more educated in the sex area, even though he was still a virgin. If he was more knowledgeable of this, maybe he would of never had to have a teaching session with his mother in law and the knights that stayed overnight would of never gotten