Many cultures took different stands on coffee when it arrived, their opinions varying from the common fact to the far flung rumor about coffee and the presence of coffee houses. When I looked up the ways coffeehouses changed around the lines of some cultures or changed that culture itself, I found an overwhelming amount of writing that all concluded on the same point- wherever the coffee house was located, it was an influence on the politics of that society. There was also an abundance of historical information on what people thought about what coffee did to you. For example, in England, many women petitioned that the “heathen devil’s drink of coffee” be banned from the public. They said this because some women claimed that coffee made their husbands unable to bear them children. This became a “common fact” about coffee, even though it wasn’t true. Also, coffeehouses were the first step towards social equalization. For one of the first times, women could go to the same place as men and do the same thing, all without being considered socially out of place. Anyone was accepted at a coffeehouse, and many coffeehouses catered to specific ethnic groups. The coffeehouse was also the first place where women could get a real taste of politics, no longer having to make due with the scant political chitchat their husbands occasionally made with guests. Many outspoken or “radical” political figures with minimal finances would make themselves or their opinions known with debates, toasts or speeches over a cup of joe. This in turn also led anti political movements to be headquartered in coffeehouses. Some conspiracies and plots were conceived and carried out from coffeehouses.