DYK medieval nuns & monks ate very little on their strict diets to keep themselves from #SexualDesire & fantasy? #AlbertTheGreat warned women who let themselves fantasize about sex:
#HistSex

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 early 20thC doctors taught parents that #SoloSex/#masturbation led to disease & death? They scared kids off it, tied their hands to bedposts, even did #clitoridectomy & infant #circumcision to stop it. Result: guilt. Ghosts of #HistSex still haunt. HowSexGotScrewedUp.com

DYK early Catholics made rituals to seal #SameSex, spiritual marriages w/allegedly no sex? Spouses did live & sleep together & inherited one another’s property. Many had sex secretly because of harsh penalties against #QueerSex. HowSexGotScrewedUp.com #GayMarriage #HistSex

DYK #Gilgamesh & #Enkidu were lovers & their story, the world’s first epic, was about the civilizing effects of #queer love, its diminishment of masculine virility & rage & grief’s power at the death of a lover. HowSexGotScrewedUp.com #HistSex #manliness #QueerHistory

DYK #PopeInnocentII’s Fourth Lateran Council (1215) declared Jews couldn’t hold public office, go outdoors on Holy Week’s last days & had to wear special clothes to warn Christians against #HavingSex w/them? #Antisemitism is #Medieval. HowSexGotScrewedUp.com #history #HistSex

DYK early 20thC doctors taught parents that #solosex/#masturbation led to disease & death? They scared kids off it, tied their hands to bedposts, even did #clitoridectomy & infant #circumcision to stop it. Result: guilt. Ghosts of #HistSex still haunt. HowSexGotScrewedUp.com

DYK #Charlemagne (d.814) had to double the fines for self-#castration? The Catholic church taught people to hate their bodies—a lot. Many were very eager to free themselves of the #SexDrive & become #eunuchs for the #KingdomOfHeaven. HowSexGotScrewedUp.com #doctrine #HistSex

DYK Pierre #Abelard & St. #BernardDeClairvaux, who condemned him for heresy, agreed that the mother of Jesus did not get pregnant immaculately & w/o original sin? They believed that run-of-the-mill conception would sanctify coitus in marriage. HowSexGotScrewedUp.com #HistSex

So, kids knew little about their sexuality & were not sure how to handle getting pubic hair or breasts or wet dreams.
Ghosts of #HistSex still haunt. HowSexGotScrewedUp.com

Striking any other pose—w/her or any other partner—was more sinful than #incest w/one’s mother & was only permitted if a spouse was disabled & couldn’t get into the position! Ghosts of #HistSex still haunt. HowSexGotScrewedUp.com #QueerSex #SoloSex #zoophilia

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“If by “unfit” is meant the physical or mental defects of a human being, that is an admirable gesture, but if “unfit” refers to races or religions, then that is another matter, which I frankly deplore.”
Ghosts of #HistSex still haunt. HowSexGotScrewedUp.com

DYK #Ulpian urged Emperor Severus (d. 211) to outlaw #QueerSex? But Severus didn’t because he wanted to continue taxing male #SexWorkers. Until the 6thC of the #Christian era, emperors continued to tax male sex workers. HowSexGotScrewedUp.com #HistSex #hustlers #QueerHistory

“…it has not been placed in an inter-personal context, it is not attached to the most important values of the relations between people.… the book suggests no way of choosing between a woman & a sheep.” Blog7 Ghosts of #HistSex still haunt. HowSexGotScrewedUp.com

DYK in 1871 Ezra & Angela Heywood put out a #FreeLove newspaper for more than 20 years? “The Word” tried to stop #kink, support #NaughtyWords & #SexEd for kids, & classified marriage as #SexWork. Ghosts of #HistSex still haunt. HowSexGotScrewedUp.com #censorship

DYK #MichelFoucault’s 1976 “History of Sexuality” correctly claimed society cast women as hysterics, sexualized children, & valorized coitus, making all other kinds of #SexPlay dysfunctional? Ghosts of #HistSex still haunt. HowSexGotScrewedUp.com #QueerHistory #WmnHist

Even wet dreams were normal. #Kinsey also reported that a nymphomaniac was only a “…woman who has more sex than you do”. He did believe certain things were not natural—going without sex & delaying marriage! Blog7 Ghosts of #HistSex still haunt. HowSexGotScrewedUp.com

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

His wife had suffered 4 miscarriages. Noyes’ solution was “amative” sex instead of “propagative sex”. Men would withdraw during coitus & they would not ejaculate. HowSexGotScrewedUp.com #HistSex #WmnHist