20 Interesting Facts about Pirates

Pirates practiced gay marriage.

Centuries before people acknowledged the existence of homosexuality, pirates were already allowing gay marriage as early as the 1600s. This association between two men was called Matelotage, wherein the pirate couple shared their possessions and loot and were also each other’s legal heirs.The fact that there were usually only men on the deck led to this kind of practice. Some say that they gradually developed romantic relations too, while others assume that they would share their female prostitutes.