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

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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 drop boxes for abandoned infants were common when Christians ruled the world? Millions abandoned babies every year. One 16thC Florence orphanage took in 900 babies a year. 19thC Vienna’s took in HALF of all its newborns. Most cast-offs died. HowSexGotScrewedUp.com #wmnhist

Dominant Roman thought was otherwise. Roman historian #Tacitus (d.117) saw nothing amiss w/infanticide. He was totally mystified by the family values of the Jews & reproached them for not killing their “overly numerous” newborns. HowSexGotScrewedUp.com #HistSex #WmnHist

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“[It] makes the bridal chamber a brothel.”
Ghosts of #WmnHist still haunt. HowSexGotScrewedUp.com #StillDoctrine

Rock forgot that, since its very inception, Catholicism has taught that having sex for any other reason than to start a pregnancy is a grave sin. Paul made that #DangerousChurchDoctrine infallible & irreversible. #QueerHistory #WmnHist #zoophilia Blog7

DYK Djungan men steal powerful #menstruation from women? They cut open their arms, turning them into vaginas & bleed “menstrual” blood. When the ritual is complete, they become as powerful as women & share in their solidarity, strength & warmth. howsexgotscrewedup.com #WmnHist

DYK Augustine taught that couples who used #BirthControl in marriage were committing a sin on a par w/adultery? He wasn’t kidding. The punishment for adultery could be 13 years of public penance. HowSexGotScrewedUp.com #WmnHist
This is what he said:

“ we do read, however, that one man had several wives when the customs of the people permitted it, for it is not against the nature of marriage.” #WmnHist

#Taboos make it hard to channel our #SexDrive the way society tries to shape it for us. Sexually uncomfortable, we take risks that may harm us or make us shameful. Understanding the #HistSex, we can get over it. Blog7 HowSexGotScrewedUp.com #QueerHistory #WmnHist #zoophilia

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

It wasn’t until the 19thC that #PiusIX declared, “ex cathedra”, to support the #dogma of #ImmaculateConception that ensoulment occurred at conception & all #abortions were murder. Ghosts of #GenderHistory still haunt. HowSexGotScrewedUp.com #WmnHist

DYK 19thC men did not adhere to the strict moral Christian codes that confined women? Most men later in the century even agreed that it was harmless to promise marriage to a girl to get her to give up her virginity. HowSexGotScrewedUp.com #WmnHist #histsex

DYK ancient Athens let wives out of the house only to grieve? Mourning the death of #Adonis after dark in 415 BCE, some secretly chopped the erect stone #phallus off each #herm in front of their homes. First demo for #WomansRights! HowSexGotScrewedUp.com #WmnHist

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 Auguste Debay (d.1890) went against the mainstream & counseled against maintaining #virginity?
HowSexGotScrewedUp.com #WmnHist
This is what he had to say about #celibacy in a manual about marriage he wrote in 1848: Celibacy

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