DYK Spanish King #PhilipII’s laws, Filipinas, declared execution for #sodomy, including #QueerSex & #bestiality. According to Chapter 13: “Any person, of whatever rank, who in any way commits the sin of sodomy, shall be burned & made dust by the fire so that his body & burial

The age of tolerance for #QueerSex & #bestiality in #sodomy was coming to a violent close. Sex w/no chance of procreation, from using #BirthControl to #SoloSex was increasingly seen as a crime w/death becoming the penalty. Blog7 HowSexGotScrewedUp.com #QueerHistory #zoophilia

DYK the Catholic church has a perverse history? In 1258, St. #LouisIX used CommonLaw of Orléans—Livres de justice et de plet—to increase punishment for #sodomy:
“Whoever is proved to be a sodomite ... a third time he shall be burned....& all their goods shall go to the king.”

DYK #Balboa fed #indigenous #TwoSpirit, #nonbinary people to his dogs in Panama? He spared the conquistadors who had #sex w/them. Why do so many #Christians murder them today? Ghosts of #GenderHistory still haunt.
HowSexGotScrewedUp.com #QueerHistory #sodomy

DYK #IndigenousPeople all over the "New World" had much more tolerance for variants in #SexualOrientation & #GenderRole than Europeans? But, the Vatican had decided that anyone accepting "#sodomy" was subhuman: liable to execution. HowSexGotScrewedUp.com #GenderHistory

DYK #FranciscoPizzaro (d.1541) grounded his execution of #Atahualpa on #HolyInquistion laws calling for death of all sodomites? The #Inca, like other #IndigenousPeople, accepted #TwoSpirit, #bestiality, & #QueerSex. #Sodomy made them subhuman. Blog7 HowSexGotScrewedUp.com

DYK #CottonMather (d.1728) was merciless about #QueerSex & wanted dead anyone who “went after strange flesh”? New England colonies all demanded capital punishment for it. New Haven defined “#sodomy” more broadly. It also included the use of the penis on an “unripe girl”