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This is Pessimists Archive. I'm Jason Ffeiffer. If you were a British man who liked coffee,

the 1670s were a interesting time for you. Coffee houses had sprung up all over town,

where men would gather to sip this hot new beverage and talk about the news, but they just

wouldn't be left in peace.

First in 1674 came the women's petition.

It was a pamphlet, literally called the Women's Petition Against Coffee,

which presented itself as a plea from the sex-starved women of England, whose husbands were so addicted to coffee that they lost all interest in a good shag.

Yeah, baby, yeah!

Here's from the petition.

For can any woman of sense or spirit endure with patience, that when she approaches the nuptial

bed, expecting a man that should answer the vigor of her flames, she on the contrary should only meet a bed full of bones

and hug a meagre, useless corpse. The men had responded with their own pamphlet, claiming, among other

things, and here we go with my bad British accent, quote, coffee collects and settles the spirits,

makes the erection more vigorous, the ejaculation more full,

adds a spiritual essence to the sperm, and renders it more firm and suitable to the gusto of the womb,

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