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

One of the benefits they claimed was that children born in #FreeLove would be less likely to succumb to “diseases” such as #SoloSex. They both later became Catholic & recanted their Free-Love views. HowSexGotScrewedUp.com #bators #HistSex #RealMenMasturbate

“Sounds of pleasure from Jim let me know I could continue w/this new adventure. I began to stroke Jim’s prostate w/my finger while kissing him, & had intended to change positions & sit on him before he came, but there wasn’t time.” HowSexGotScrewedUp.com #HistSex

He also stood up against the idea that a guy was always ready for sex & always wanted it, & that sex meant coitus, & that good sex play required orgasm. Ghosts of #HistSex still haunt. HowSexGotScrewedUp.com

DYK some animals seek out & consent to #ZooSex? My book includes a report of a dolphin in the wild who sought out a human sex partner for an ongoing relationship. Interspecies sex also occurs in the wild. Blog7 HowSexGotScrewedUp.com #bestiality #HistSex #zoophilia #KashPatel

“Huts are erected near the Maypole, after which the people begin to eat, drink, dance, & sing “like heathens”. Of every 100 girls who spent the night in the wood scarce a third returned unharmed in the morning.” Ghosts of #HistSex still haunt. HowSexGotScrewedUp.com

Men needed rescue from absent fathers, overprotective mothers, other women who exploited them, & workplaces that sapped their strength.
Ghosts of #HistSex still haunt. HowSexGotScrewedUp.com #incel

DYK 19thC England executed #GayMen, but celebrated #lesbians in #GayMarriage? The upper-crust, common-law married #LadiesofLlangollen became celebrities, heroes, & a tourist attraction. Ghosts of #HistSex still haunt. HowSexGotScrewedUp.com #LesbianHistory #QueerHistory

And another #OpenAccess article for #Skystorians #GenderHistory #histsex

New #OpenAccess article for #Skystorians #GenderHistory #histsex

DYK in 1999, Bruce Bagemihl showed members of 100s animal species have more nonprocreative sex than procreative? Despite #CharlesDarwin, the #SexDrive is more about the desire to connect than desire to reproduce. Ghosts of #HistSex still haunt.

“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 Japan’s torture & execution of Franciscans in 1597 was the same as the Vatican’s for #heretics in Europe? Yet Japan’s defense of its norms about sex, religion & culture horrified #MartinScorcese, whose 2017 film “Silence” brutalized it. HowSexGotScrewedUp.com #HistSex

And in this print from #Women Haters Lamentation”, a landlady hikes her skirt to cut a #molly down after hanging himself? Ghosts of #HistSex still haunt. HowSexGotScrewedUp.com #QueerHistory

DYK many in 16thC Tuscany believed that love affairs, before or during marriage, were a fundamental right—as long as lovers were discreet about it? Men, old & young, had sex w/women on a lower class rung. Women often aimed a rung higher. Ghosts of #HistSex still haunt. #SexPlay

DYK 18thC England #pilloried #GayGuys for mobs to torture, then sent them to the gallows? This is from a pamphlet called “The Life and Death of John Atherton”. Officials hung the bishop & his lover, John Childe, in 1640. HowSexGotScrewedUp.com #HistSex #QueerHistory

Michael continúa su encomiable traducción al inglés de la obra de Magnus Hirschfeld. Le toca por fin turno a la esencial Geschlechtskunde (1926-1930) -Juan Lejárraga #histsex #lgbtqHistory #MagnusHirschfeld
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DYK sex before marriage was a custom in 14thC Christian Europe? Teens in Italy, for example, had a lot of sexual outlets: older men, servants, sex workers, & the children of the lower classes. #Rape was a common way to get what they wanted. HowSexGotScrewedUp.com #HistSex

DYK 18thC Boston ridiculed #Masons by suggesting they were into #AnalPlay? How did #SexPlay outside of coitus become so shameful? Ghosts of #HistSex still haunt. HowSexGotScrewedUp.com #AnalToys #Augustine #Aquinas #BDSM #ButtPlug #Puritan

For a little about what we _do_ know about the history of #contraception, have a look at this interview. #histsex #histmed