This was nearly 10 times less than the rates in World War I. Finally, in 1945, penicillin became the first safe & effective cure for #syphilis & #gonorrhea. The problem began to fade. But women were still blamed for it. Ghosts of #HistSex still haunt. HowSexGotScrewedUp.com

DYK sex was a marital duty, "performed w/good will & delight, willingly, readily & cheerfully,” for Puritan William Gouge (d.1653)? His church excommunicated James Mattock for denying his wife “conjugal fellowship”. Ghosts of #HistSex still haunt. HowSexGotScrewedUp.com

#Taboos make it hard to channel our #SexDrive the way society tries to shape it for us. Sexually uncomfortable, we take risks that may harm us or make us shameful. Understanding the #HistSex, we can get over it. Blog7 HowSexGotScrewedUp.com #QueerHistory #WmnHist #zoophilia

DYK #NegroProject had nothing to do w/#MargaretSanger? Sanger raised the funding, but southern racists threw her out & took it over. She never promoted abortion, illegal & dangerous her whole life. No truth in #Trump’s antichoice movement! Blog1 HowSexGotScrewedUp.com #HistSex

DYK #PopeInnocentIII made marriage a sacrament at 4th LateranCouncil of 1215 to keep priests from marrying, having kids, & leaving church property to them? Few people w/church weddings realize it was a papal power play. Gho$t$of #HistSex still haunt. HowSexGotScrewedUp.com

DYK #IndigenousPeople in the Americas were more likely to accept #gender, #sex & #sexuality than their Renaissance European cousins? Why is it so hard for our culture to tolerate them now? HowSexGotScrewedUp.com #bestiality #fellatio #HistSex #OralSex #QueerHistory #TwoSpirit

DYK 19thC men did not adhere to the strict moral Christian codes that confined women? Most men later in the century even agreed that it was harmless to promise marriage to a girl to get her to give up her virginity. HowSexGotScrewedUp.com #WmnHist #histsex

Men who wanted to be brawny were a big market. So much so, Marlboro cigarettes flipped from being red & ivory-tipped for women, to becoming a cigarette w/“man-sized flavor”, using rugged men—cowboys & sailors—in its ads. Ghosts of #HistSex still haunt. HowSexGotScrewedUp.com

Hefner became “the prince of hedonism” & may have done more for candid, relaxed attitudes toward sex than any other person in America. By the early ‘70s, he was the most well-known advocate of the sexual revolution. Ghosts of #HistSex still haunt. HowSexGotScrewedUp.com

Family had become a dogma. A “good” married guy supported his family, did chores around the house, spent time with his kids, & had a hobby he did at home. No bars & other women for him. Ghosts of #HistSex still haunt.

DYK Carol Cassell says this #HistSex, HOW SEX GOT SCREWED UP, is “…a masterpiece about “…why we feel and act the way we do about sex” from the #StoneAge to #MeToo? HowSexGotScrewedUp.com #GayMarriage #QueerHistory #QueerSex #SexWork #TrumpKKKristian #WmnHist #Zoophilia

DYK 18thC Venetians wore #CarnivalMasks half the year, not just at carnival? They got to be whomever they wanted to be & to fuck whomever would join them in a bedded gondola. Women in Venice were Europe’s most free. HowSexGotScrewedUp.com #HistSex #WmnHist

DYK #ErikErikson's "Childhood & Society" made him an authority on children? But he was a theorist, who, while he observed children, did not ask "intrusive" questions, so he learned nothing about their sexuality.
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