“… take only a small part and refrain from cutting most of the clitoris off.….The woman will have a bright and happy face, and is more welcome to her husband, if her pleasure is complete.” Ghosts of #GenderHistory still haunt. HowSexGotScrewedUp.com #WmnHist

They also eventually relegated women to the sole function of producing heirs. Muslims even adopted some of the customs that Byzantine Christians used to set women apart from a full public life—the veil & separate living quarters. HowSexGotScrewedUp.com #GenderHistory #WmnHist

As public opinion ran in her favor, #Sanger decided to go home & ahttps://pbs.twimg.com/media/HUb75iGW8AAxpe6?format=png&name=smallrrived in New York to great acclaim in October 1915. Ghosts of #WmnHist still haunt. HowSexGotScrewedUp.com #BirthControl #DontGoBack

It soon devolved into another of the paternalistic “sexual hygiene” caravans of white clinicians sweeping through the region every once in a while. The course of these events left Sanger deeply stung. Ghosts of #WmnHist still haunt. HowSexGotScrewedUp.com #BLM #BlackLivesMatter

The title of Acton’s book was: “The Functions and Disorders of the Reproductive Organs, in Childhood, Youth, Adult Age, and Advanced Life, Considered in the Physiological, Social, and Moral Relations”. #WmnHist

• The church granted annulments by declaring that the marriage, for one reason or another, was never valid in the first place.
• Husbands could also make formal declarations of divorce. Ghosts of #WmnHist still haunt. HowSexGotScrewedUp.com

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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 after World War II, #RosietheRiveter had to give her job to a veteran? By 1954, #EsquireMagazine called #WorkingWomen a “menace”. In ’55 tranquilizers went on sale for unhappy women. By ’59, 1.15 million lbs. of them were sold. HowSexGotScrewedUp.com #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

DYK Elizabeth Bisbee Duffey’s “What Women Should Know” of 1873 warned women that not only were men much stronger & lustier than they, many were brutes when it came to sex?
Ghosts of #WmnHist still haunt. HowSexGotScrewedUp.com

The penalties were severe if she broke the rules. Her husband could kill her if she took a lover. By 17thC she was #chattel & lost her natural sexual birth right & her #RightToLife in the #patriarchal economy. Ghosts of #histsex still haunt. #MalaVida #MeToo #wmnhist

DYK it was 8thC Archbishop of Mentz, Boniface, “the Apostle of Germany,” who reaffirmed 4thC church law prohibiting women from singing in church? It would be 1940 before the Vatican allowed them to rejoin the choir. Ghosts of #WmnHist still haunt. HowSexGotScrewedUp.com

“If you are protected by a helmet of strong-mindedness
which makes her see that her weapons bounce off it,
she will then retreat groaning & heave feigned sighs,
grieving that her prayers have no weight.”
Ghosts of #WmnHist still haunt. HowSexGotScrewedUp.com

But lawmakers also believed that women cooperated in their own rapes. So, they took away the raped woman’s right to own property & she might be forced into #SexWork to survive. HowSexGotScrewedUp.com #GenderHistory #WmnHist

Membership peaked at 300. Oneida survived for 31 years w/only about 30 accidental births. According to its 1871 handbook: “The honor & faithfulness that constitute an ideal marriage may exist between 200 as well as 2.” Ghosts of #WmnHist still haunt.
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That would be from 9 to 12 weeks. 94% of abortions occur at or before 13 weeks. Why did #PiusIX repudiate #Augustine & #Aquinas who both agreed w/#StJerome? Just asking. HowSexGotScrewedUp.com #RoeVWade #WmnHist

In some writings, she exempted the mentally incompetent, but #MargaretSanger refused ever to give ground on her conviction: Every woman had a right to make her own choices — especially about having children. Ghosts of #WmnHist still haunt. HowSexGotScrewedUp.com #WomanRights

“We shall not allow fathers to be legally inferior to mothers in any particular. ...”
Not even a hundred years later, Clovis I declared that women could no longer inherit! Ghosts of #GenderHistory still haunt. HowSexGotScrewedUp.com #WmnHist

Isidore of Seville (d.636) wrote in his “Etymologies”:
“… after touching menstrual blood, fruits do not sprout, blossoms fade, grasses wither ... iron rusts, brass turns black, dogs that taste it get rabies.”
Ghosts of #WmnHist still haunt. HowSexGotScrewedUp.com