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

DYK the syncretic medieval church encouraged worship of the Virgin Mary to supplant pagan goddesses, but degraded real women & their lives? In 589, the Third Synod of Toledo decided to punish priests w/women in their homes who weren’t blood relations. #WmnHist

DYK #Zeus made #Tiresias a #transgender/#hermaphrodite? Zeus was offended w/him for observing the mystery of two snakes #HavingSex, so DEMOTED him into womanhood for 7 years. Ghosts of #QueerHistory still haunt. HowSexGotScrewedUp.com #transhistory #WmnHist

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

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 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

Sometimes she held an ear of corn like the virgin goddesses #Demeter & #Persephone. Sometimes it was a dove, sacred to both #Ishtar & Aphrodite. Sometimes, she was treading on the goddesses’ sacred serpent. HowSexGotScrewedUp.com #syncretism #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

In the eyes of pagans as well as Christians, women were cosmic, nocturnal, & infernal powers. Women’s menstrual cycles bound them to the cycles of the moon. Couples needed help to keep the moon from making the bride bleed every month. howsexgotscrewedup.com #HoneyMoon #WmnHist

In 744, the Council of Leptines had to outlaw paganism (again). In particular, it condemned the rituals,“vince luna,” that women used to end the eclipse of the moon, restore their fertility, or capture the hearts of men. howsexgotscrewedup.com #TransHistory #WmnHist