 On this day, the women at the festival sat on the ground on seats made of plants which were believed to be anaphrodisiac.Angeliki Tzanetou says that ritual obscenity () was a feature of the second day of the festival; however, Dillon says that the ritual obscenity would have taken place on another day, not than the subdued second day, and Radek Chlup argues that it took place on the third day of the festival.The third day of the Thesmophoria was "kalligeneia", or "beautiful birth".