Print advertisements included plaudits from husbands who thanked Butler for curing their wives of “… female weakness, and general debility of the system, with the most gratifying results”. Ghosts of #GenderHistory still haunt. HowSexGotScrewedUp.com #SexToys #WmnHist

“Those who have seven or eight husbands are known as yunni (public women), & those who have even more husbands are the “super whores” (mahāvehyā) for the satisfaction of all castes.” Blog5 HowSexGotScrewedUp.com #GenderHistory #HistSex #WmnHist

DYK China made armies of castrated #eunuchs to serve as laborers & civil servants from 1766 BCE to 20thC? Taoists, Buddhists & Confucians trusted them because they couldn’t breed. Childless, their spirits didn’t survive death. HowSexGotScrewedUp.com #GenderHistory

DYK #TrumpKKKristians forget #StPaul taught that #GenderBinary has no meaning in the church:
“For you are all God’s children through faith in Christ Jesus. ... there is neither male nor female. For you are all one in Christ Jesus.”
HowSexGotScrewedUp.com #GenderHistory

DYK #JoanOfArc burned at the stake for #heresy & #CrossDressing? She refused to wear women's clothes, even when threatened w/execution. Christians continue to punish #queer & #trans kids today who #CrossDress. Ghosts of #GenderHistory still haunt. HowSexGotScrewedUp.com #GOP

#CfP 📢 “Early Modern Women and Generations”, Early Modern Women: An Interdisciplinary Journal

Inviting submissions for the Fall 2027 Forum.

⏰ 1 October 2026
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#GenderHistory #WomensHistory #EarlyModern

DYK “How Sex Got Screwed Up” is now available as an eBook? To learn #GenderHistory& #HistSexof the world, including #QueerSex, #WmnHist, & #Zoophilia, go to VernonPress.com: Book One ISBN 978-1-62273-69-11 Book Two ISBN 978-1-62273-584-6

DYK 18thC Moravians saw Christ’s #SideWound as a womb in which we all live everyday life? He was a mother & #coitus was a sacrament practiced in church. Why don’t #Christians see it that way today? Ghosts of #GenderHistory still haunt. HowSexGotScrewedUp.com #doctrine #shame

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

Today, lovers & spouses don’t touch during #menstruation. Some Orthodox churches refuse women the sacrament of confession during one. Not until 1940 did Catholic churches allowed women to sing in their choirs & they still had to stay away from the altar. #GenderHistory

DYK #ChristineJorgensen was the 1st U.S. #transwoman to confirm her #gender w/surgery & she became a celebrity—even Scandinavian Societies of Greater NY #WomanOfTheYear? Why are her #BlackSisters murdered today? HowSexGotScrewedUp.com #GenderHistory #QueerHistory #transhistory

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 #IndigenousPeople in the Americas, unlike their #Renaissance cousins in Europe, accepted #TransWomen & #TransMen? Why can’t most of today’s Christians? Ghosts of #GenderHistory still haunt.
HowSexGotScrewedUp.com #gender #nonbinary #TransHistory #TwoSpirit

📚 Book review:

The Women Who Threw Corn: Witchcraft and Inquisition in Sixteenth-Century Mexico by Martin Austin Nesvig, reviewed by Anderson Hagler

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#BookReview #skyhistorians #GenderHistory

📚 Book review:

Not Just a Housewife: Women Strike for Peace and the Cold War Women's Peace Movement by Jon Coburn, reviewed by Amanda Westbrook Brennan

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#BookReview #skyhistorians #GenderHistory

📚 Book review:

Review of Appearance Politics: Legitimacy Building in Late Imperial and Modern China by Lex Lu, reviewed by Nicolas Schillinger

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#BookReview #skyhistorians #GenderHistory

DYK St #Augustine was okay w/#polygyny—the union one man w/more than one woman? But he was against #polyandry —the union of one woman w/more than one man. HowSexGotScrewedUp.com #GenderHistory

To avoid further contamination w/women’s bodies, the medieval church banned #SexPlay on all holy days, Sundays, feast days, the 40-day fast before Easter & at least 20 days before Christmas & Pentecost. Spouses had to abstain a minimum of five months every year. #GenderHistory

#Taboos snarl our most intimate efforts to balance our #SexDrive w/our #SelfControl. We want to be like the models our culture provides. If we fail, we don’t belong. If we don’t belong, we aren’t #sexy. If we aren’t sexy, our peers may see us repulsive—so may we. #GenderHistory

Sex w/a woman during her period can shatter the harmony of the universe. She must isolate herself for 7 days to prevent contact & wash away impurity each month by taking a ritual bath—mikvah—7 days after her period ends. Orthodox Jewish women still do. #GenderHistory #WmnHist