Broadway audience members were from the upper-class carriage trade & police couldn’t get convictions on them! Ghosts of #HistSex still haunt. HowSexGotScrewedUp.com

DYK medieval children had sex? They were far from sexually ignorant because most everyone in family slept in the same room, usually in the same bed. It wasn’t until the 14thC that children in middle class homes began to have bedrooms of their own.
Ghosts of #HistSex still haunt.

The court found 8 of them guilty. It acquitted another 8, & dropped charges against the rest. In the U.S., from 2011–’15more than 250 people were arrested for #bestiality, from direct contact to collecting images. Ghosts of #HistSex still haunt. #zoophilia

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

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

DYK Niccolo #Machiavelli 's 16thC church was just as ruthless as he? The Vatican stained its own altars w/blood by savagely executing millions of #Cathars, #CrossDressers, heretics, #intersex, #queers & #zoophiles to preserve it's might. Blog7 HowSexGotScrewedUp.com #HistSex

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 the ideology in #Bambi reflected #Darwin’s mistaken notion that #SexualDesire in all animals is for #StraightSex & always leads to reproduction? But animals, like humans, also enjoy #SoloSex & #QueerSex. Ghosts of #HistSex still haunt. HowSexGotScrewedUp.com #QueerHistory

DYK Debbie Nathan & Michael Snedeker’s 1995 Satan’s Silence exposed ALL charges of #SatanicRitualAbuse as fake? Innocent parents & child-care givers spent years in prison. Yet our #SexPanic about #ChildSex & #ChildSexualAbuse still harms kids. HowSexGotScrewedUp.com #HistSex

DYK Theodore of Canterbury (ca.700) composed a #penitential for priests to assign penance for sexual sins from #fantasy & “#fornication” to #QueerSex #SoloSex/#masturbation, #WetDreams & #zoophilia? Ghosts of #HistSex still haunt. Blog7 HowSexGotScrewedUp.com. #QueerHistory

DYK John Rock said #ThePill imitated body chemistry & matched church #doctrine? In 1965, #PopePaulVI’s commission examined Rock’s claims, but his 1968 encyclical, #HumanaeVitae, rejected its advice & forbade all #BirthControl, except “ryhthm”. HowSexGotScrewedUp.com #HistSex

DYK a 1942 “Reader’s Digest” survey, “A Woman’s Responsibility in Sex Relations”, found that most divorces, which ended one of every five or six marriages, were caused by a couple’s failure to make a “satisfactory sexual adjustment”. HowSexGotScrewedUp.com #HistSex

DYK Thomas Morton set up a #FreeLove trading post in 1625 in Puritan Massachusetts? Women & men at Merry Mount were in constant drunken revelry. They danced around an 80-foot maypole topped with stag antlers. Ghosts of #HistSex still haunt. HowSexGotScrewedUp.com

DKY 4thC #AugustineOfHippo taught #SexPlay & coitus, even for making a baby, was always a sin? It stained offspring w/#OriginalSin. The Catholic church still holds this early medieval #DangerousChurchDoctrine. Ghosts of #HistSex still haunt. Blog8 HowSexGotScrewedUp.com

It made him a man. Other young men got it by reading “lad books” such as “Maxim”, “FHM”, & “Stuff” w/articles such those on “How to Score” at a funeral. Ghosts of #HistSex still haunt. HowSexGotScrewedUp.com

They bragged about their sexual conquests of women. The greater the conquest a guy claimed, the more status he earned. Little League players of nine & 12 did it, too. Sexist talk made masculine privilege & domination seem normal & natural. HowSexGotScrewedUp.com #HistSex

DYK pope #PiusIX invented papal infallibility in 1869? Now, doctrine is set in stone & irreversible. #Abortion, #BirthControl, #SoloSex, #fornication, #bestiality & #QueerSex will always be #MortalSins for Catholics. Blog7 HowSexGotScrewedUp.com #HistSex #SCOTUSisTooCatholic

This was nearly 10 times less than the rates in World War I. Finally, in 1945, penicillin became the first safe & effective cure for #syphilis & #gonorrhea. The problem began to fade. But women were still blamed for it. Ghosts of #HistSex still haunt. HowSexGotScrewedUp.com

DYK sex was a marital duty, "performed w/good will & delight, willingly, readily & cheerfully,” for Puritan William Gouge (d.1653)? His church excommunicated James Mattock for denying his wife “conjugal fellowship”. Ghosts of #HistSex still haunt. HowSexGotScrewedUp.com

#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