The church saw these healers as the enemy. Their spells & potions weren’t only pagan, they were to improve #SexualHealth. The idea of sexual health was an oxymoron for the church. All sex was evil. There was no such thing as sexual health. HowSexGotScrewedUp.com #WmnHist

Soon, single & lesbian women were using donor insemination without having men as partners. Ghosts of #WmnHist still haunt. HowSexGotScrewedUp.com

Shotgun weddings had become a thing of the past. Ghosts of #WmnHist still haunt. HowSexGotScrewedUp.com

Sanger’s pill ended thousands of years of the suppression & repression of women & let them be in charge of their fertility for the first time in history. As Sanger knew it would, the advent of the pill sparked the #WomensLiberation movement. Ghosts of #WmnHist still haunt.

“she can only reduce her capacity for sexual performance, health & happiness.”
He also reported that many women went without orgasm. They only claimed to have them in order to appear normal.
Ghosts of #WmnHist still haunt. HowSexGotScrewedUp.com

DYK in 1326, Pope John XXII (d.1334) declared #witchcraft was as bad as #heresy & #sodomy. His decree condemned all #witches (midwives, priests' wives) to burn at the stake w/heretics & #sodomites. Not a nice guy. Blog7 HowSexGotScrewedUp.com #bestiality #QueerSex #WmnHist

If both nerves were stimulated at the same time, she would have sons into #QueerSex. HowSexGotScrewedUp.com #GenderHistory #KamaSutra #QueerHistory #WmnHist

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DYK soldiers in Rome's army found the macho god, #Mithra, very appealing & manly? They excluded women from his cult & thronged to more than 100 temples in the city of Rome alone. Ghosts of the #HistSex still haunt. HowSexGotScrewedUp.com #GenderHistory #misogyny #WmnHist

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

“And when they talked about sexual liberation, they often meant that a woman had the duty to say yes rather than the right to say yes or no.” Ghosts of #WmnHist still haunt. HowSexGotScrewedUp.com #SexualRevolution

DYK Steven Goldberg’s 1973 “The Inevitability of Patriarchy” used cherry-picked data to try to prove that women’s rights were unnatural? For him, male domination was the superior social system.
Ghosts of #WmnHist still haunt. HowSexGotScrewedUp.com

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 Myron Brenton’s 1967 “The American Male” claimed that many men were becoming anxious because having sex with a woman put their manliness on trial? Women made them feel inept.
Ghosts of #WmnHist still haunt.

Girls who understood the 64 erotic arts appreciated men who understood them, & they were more likely to be faithful to their husbands. Blog5 Ghosts of #WmnHist still haunt. HowSexGotScrewedUp.com

DYK Sara Emma Edmunds published her autobiography in 1865 recounting her career as Frank Thompson, a soldier in the Union Army? She was one of 1,000s of #CrossDressing women who fought in our Civil War. Ghostsof #QueerHistory still haunt. HowSexGotScrewedUp.com #WmnHist

DYK (Jack) “Harris’s List of Covent Garden Ladies; or Man of Pleasure’s Kalendar” sold 8,000 copies a year from 1764–95? Each 150-page guide had names, ages, descriptions & addresses of 120 to 190 of the 3,000 #SexWorkers in London. HowSexGotScrewedUp.com #SexWork #WmnHist

DYK #SexWorker’s streetwalking increased at night after gas-light street lamps appeared in the 19thC? Riskier than working in a brothel, many #hookers had to take on 15 Johns a day to survive. Ghosts of #WmnHist still haunt. HowSexGotScrewedUp.com #Decrimnow

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