DYK #Charlemagne shaped his court on Muslim teaching of love for king, court, teachers, friends, lovers & God? (Wives weren't included.) Students & teachers had passionate, #SameSex friendships & spiritual marriages. HowSexGotScrewedUp.com #HistSex #QueerHistory

Augustine also believed sex corrupted mixed-sex marriage:
“He loves her insofar as she is a human being, but ... hates her under the aspect of wifehood.”
But he loved his mother very much.
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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 www.amazon.com/dp/B0GTPK411T

“Every time the seed of his body is lost in a disorderly or unnatural way, he injures the finest textures of his brain correspondingly, as well as the finest & most exalted condition of his mind & soul..” Ghosts of #HistSex still haunt. HowSexGotScrewedUp.com #bators #WmnHist

DYK 97% of U.S. women & men have #PremaritalSex before turning 44? But the U.S. is the only country in the developed world w/an official policy of sexual “#abstinence unless married”. Time to #GetAGrip! Ghosts of #HistSex still haunt. HowSexGotScrewedUp.com #TheocracyAlert

They also branded him on the forehead with the letter P, for “pollution”. Then they banished him from the colony. Ghosts of #HistSex still haunt. HowSexGotScrewedUp.com #bestiality #zoophilia #ZooSex

DYK critics cried indecency in 1896 when actors May Irwin & John C. Rice tamely kissed in a minute-long Edison film, #TheKiss? A film first! Police arrested the exhibitor in New York. U.S. #censorship is boundless. Ghosts of #HistSex still haunt. HowSexGotScrewedUp.com #porn

For the woman, it was more honorable than sex work. Any child conceived during “mut ‘a” was as legitimate as any other. A son could claim inheritance rights. Mothers could claim no more than the price earned by the contract. HowSexGotScrewedUp.com #HistSex #WmnHist

Early Muslims looked down on sex workers but tolerated them. Like Christians, they believed that men needed sexual release, & for many, especially the young & unmarried, sex workers were the only choice. HowSexGotScrewedUp.com #DecrimNow #HistSex

WWI U.S. military refused over-night leave in France, to keep men from sex workers. The #RedCross, #SalvationArmy, & #YMCA ran leave camps to keep their minds off sex, but their rate of sex infections went through the roof. Ghosts of #HistSex still haunt. HowSexGotScrewedUp.com

In 1889, he put #fetishism in a class of its own. He later added classes that included #SexPlay w/feces, sex play w/dead bodies, & sex play w/children, as well as different kinds of sex w/animals. HowSexGotScrewedUp.com #bestiality #HistSex #QueerHistoryMonth #zoophilia

DYK the Temple of #GoddessIsis at Philae was the last pagan temple to close? It succumbed in 529, long after Christians banned pagan temples in 380. The wide worship of Isis laid the way for adoration of the Virgin Mary. HowSexGotScrewedUp.com #genderhistory #HistSex

DYK #DavidJay founded #Asexuality Visibility & Education Network in 2001? Anthony F. Bogaert has found that some people, like many animals, are #asexual & have no #SexualAttraction, but they may have #SoloSex/#masturbate. Ghosts of #HistSex still haunt. HowSexGotScrewedUp.com

DYK the Muria of India build sacred ghotuls for children to #HaveSex & sleep away from families? Some stay w/one partner. Most form pairs for 3 nights. They learn #SexPlay from other kids & have #coitus entering puberty. Only 3/100 divorce. HowSexGotScrewedUp.com #HistSex

DYK Victorians enjoyed #SoftPorn while subjecting hard #pornography to #censorship? This is “Oedipus & the Sphinx” by #GustaveMoreau, 1864. It hangs in the Met Museum. Selling #HardPorn is still a crime in most of NYC. Ghosts of #HistSex still haunt. HowSexGotScrewedUp.com

DYK #FredericktheGreat's dad, Freidrich Wilhelm, was ever after “Fritz” for being a #sissy? At 18, he tried to run away. In 1730, his father caught him & forced him to watch the beheading of his tutor & lover, Hans Hermann von Katte. HowSexGotScrewedUp.com #histsex #QueerHistory

DYK #PresidentGeorgeHWBush’s nickname in Congress was “Rubbers” for his devoted support of birth control & #PlannedParenthood? He switched to #prolife to run as vice president for #RonaldReagen. #GOP hypocrisy for power. Ghosts of #HistSex still haunt. HowSexGotScrewedUp.com

DYK Thomas #Rowlandson’s 1872 “Rural Felicity or Love in a Chaise” is now #pornography & subject to censorship? Why is selling #porn still a crime in most of NYC? Ghosts of #HistSex still haunt. HowSexGotScrewedUp.com #censorship #FirstAmendment #DirtyBooks #Guiliani

DYK the fear of non-believers & sexual non-conformists began to reach fever pitch in 1095? Pope #UrbanII called for a war against the #Muslims to free the Christians in Jerusalem from their occupation. He used #SexualShame to inflame the Christian world against them. #HistSex

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