DYK #Ulpian urged Emperor Severus (d. 211) to outlaw #QueerSex? But Severus didn’t because he wanted to continue taxing male #SexWorkers. Until the 6thC of the #Christian era, emperors continued to tax male sex workers. HowSexGotScrewedUp.com #HistSex #hustlers #QueerHistory

“…it has not been placed in an inter-personal context, it is not attached to the most important values of the relations between people.… the book suggests no way of choosing between a woman & a sheep.” Blog7 Ghosts of #HistSex still haunt. HowSexGotScrewedUp.com

DYK in 1871 Ezra & Angela Heywood put out a #FreeLove newspaper for more than 20 years? “The Word” tried to stop #kink, support #NaughtyWords & #SexEd for kids, & classified marriage as #SexWork. Ghosts of #HistSex still haunt. HowSexGotScrewedUp.com #censorship

DYK #MichelFoucault’s 1976 “History of Sexuality” correctly claimed society cast women as hysterics, sexualized children, & valorized coitus, making all other kinds of #SexPlay dysfunctional? Ghosts of #HistSex still haunt. HowSexGotScrewedUp.com #QueerHistory #WmnHist

Even wet dreams were normal. #Kinsey also reported that a nymphomaniac was only a “…woman who has more sex than you do”. He did believe certain things were not natural—going without sex & delaying marriage! Blog7 Ghosts of #HistSex still haunt. HowSexGotScrewedUp.com

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

His wife had suffered 4 miscarriages. Noyes’ solution was “amative” sex instead of “propagative sex”. Men would withdraw during coitus & they would not ejaculate. HowSexGotScrewedUp.com #HistSex #WmnHist

DYK 14thC #KnightsTemplar became enormously powerful & wealthy, so Catholic #Inquistions wiped them out & seized their property on charges of #sodomy & #heresy? The church tortured 1,000s into confessing. HowSexGotScrewedUp.com #doctrine #HistSex #QueerHistory

DYK the 1545–63 Council of Trent & Catholic #Inquisitions ended marriage of priests & the leakage of church money & property to their kids, now homeless? It revived #SexualHypocrisy in the church & couples now had to pay it to marry. HowSexGotScrewedUp.com #HistSex

Soon all of Europe joined in the sport, & accused innocent people of worshipping satan w/ritualistic orgies—#SatanicRitualAbuse. A witch (& her cat!) was guilty until proved innocent. That was decided by trial by ordeal — combat, fire, or water. 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 #PlantationMasters tried to break #enslaved spirits by attacking their dignity & #sexuality from birth? Kids in #ForcedLaborCamps ate from troughs, wore no underwear, shimmies instead of pants, & suffered #SexualAbuse. HowSexGotScrewedUp.com #BLM #HistSex

DYK Charles Morland’s 1749 drawing of Fanny Hill, Louisa, & the Nosegay Boy is now #pornography & censored? Why is selling #porn now illegal in most of NYC? Ghostsof #HistSex still haunt. HowSexGotScrewedUp.com #censorship #DirtyBooks #GOP #Guiliani #SexualShame

DYK the most common #BirthControl in the 1950s was sterilization? #MargaretSanger & #KatharineDexterMcCormick (in their 70s) developed the pill to offer women reversible contraception, preserve fertility, & prevent the need for #abortion. HowSexGotScrewedUp.com #HistSex #WmnHist

They disturbed the peace, paraded in front of the homes of pretty girls & serenaded them, & generally caroused. Because they greatly outnumbered women, young men talked about & paid a lot of attention to available girls. Ghosts of #HistSex still haunt. HowSexGotScrewedUp.com

DYK #JohnCalvin was more severe about #fornication/sex before marriage than #MartinLuther? He turned the city of Geneva into a theocracy holding everyone to the sexual values of the early church. His elders tracked the lives of every citizen.
Ghosts of #HistSex still haunt.

DYK it’s easy to tell which cylindrical #flamingo nest was built by #GayDads? Males are the nest-builders, so a gay couple’s are twice as high as a straight couple's. At least 1,500 species have nonprocreative sex. Ghosts of #HistSex still haunt. HowSexGotScrewedUp.com

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 #fornication/#SexPlay before marriage became a crime of love in the 15thC? Penalties were rather mild & a guy usually paid a cash fine. He could offer the cash to the girl as her dowry & marry her if she & her parents wanted him. Ghosts of #HistSex still haunt.

I thought it was an obscene idea & told him I couldn’t do it for him. Our relationship pretty much came to an end, but my political life & awareness began to take shape. Ghosts of #HistSex still haunt. HowSexGotScrewedUp.com