The bizarre social history of beds
- Written by Brian Fagan, Distinguished Professor Emeritus in Anthropology, University of California, Santa Barbara
For centuries, people thought nothing of crowding family members or friends into the same bed.miniwide/Shutterstock.com
Groucho Marx once joked, “Anything that can’t be done in bed isn’t worth doing at all.” You might think he was referring to sleeping and sex. But humans, at one time or another, have done just about...