German women live in a chastity that is impregnable, uncorrupted by the temptations of public shows or the excitements of banquets.

Clandestine love-letters are unknown to men and women alike.

Adultery in the Germanic nation is rare in the extreme, and punishment is left to the husband.

He shaves off his wife's hair, strips her in the presence of kinsmen, thrusts her from his house and flogs her through the whole village.

We have, in fact, no mercy on a woman who prostitutes her chastity.

Neither beauty, youth nor wealth can find the sinner a husband.

Information from Cornelius Tacitus