DYK Victorian men saw “good” women as passive, passionless, & helpless, but put them in #SoftPorn? John Bell’s lion gives up raw sexual energy for love of Una’s chaste beauty. A hit at the Great Exhibition of 1851. Ghosts of #GenderHistory haunt. HowSexGotScrewedUp.com
DYK Victorian men saw “good” women as passive, passionless & helpless? Any who enjoyed #SexPlay were sinners & needed a guy’s forgiveness? This is #MuscularChristianity’s Charles Kingsley’s (d.1875) sketch of himself w/wife as #Magdalene. HowSexGotScrewedUp.com #GenderHistory
DYK in 1765 #WilliamBlackstone interpreted Common Law: “In law, husband & wife are one person & the husband is that person”? Theft of the wife’s purse was stealing from him. Wives were just chattel. Ghosts of #GenderHistory still haunt. HowSexGotScrewedUp.com #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 “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
Whatever caused it, softness in a man was a vice. It resulted from a lack of virility & self-control. Rome stigmatized effeminacy in the same way that it generally hated women. Pace #Foucault! HowSexGotScrewedUp.com #GenderHistory #HistSex #QueerHistory #TransHistory
📖 What can popular literature reveal about gendered boundaries between public and private life in #earlymodern cities?
Read the 🔓 #OpenAccess article co-authored by @mboluferp.bsky.social 👉 loom.ly/4NvC5aY
📚 #FridayReads #GenderHistory #Literature
DYK the ‘60s hippie guy challenged masculinity norms? His long hair, feminine, flowing clothes, & opposition to violence defied standard #GenderRole & corporate culture. His #SexualRevolutionjoined w/#GayRights& #WomensRightsto change #GenderHistory. HowSexGotScrewedUp.com
DYK #Mithra's BD was December 25, now the day that Christians celebrate Jesus' BD? A very #patriarchal Roman god for soldiers: his devotees excluded all women from his cult & shunned worship of the #GoddessIsis. Ghosts of #GenderHistory still haunt. HowSexGotScrewedUp.com
In 1899, W.E. Fitch wrote “Bicycle Riding: Its Moral Effect upon Young Girls & Its Relation to the Diseases of Women.” He claimed women were able to have up to 4 orgasms in a single hour of riding. HowSexGotScrewedUp.com #GenderHistory #SexToys #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 thru most of history, wives & #SexWorkers shared a common status: #chattel? It took 1,000s of years for wives to gain some equality w/hubands. It is time we did the same for women in #SexWork. Ghosts of #GenderHistory still haunt. HowSexGotScrewedUp.com #DecrimNow #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
#Aquinas also preached that husbands who committed adultery needn’t be punished as harshly as wives. It's amazing that he had so much to say about #sexuality when the only sexual issue Jesus talks about in the Gospel is #adultery.
#GenderHistory
DYK #BeauBrummel (d.1840) forever changed Western men’s ideas of fashion & masculinity? Straight guys gave up wearing makeup, lace, embroidery & other frills? Ghosts of #GenderHistory still haunt. HowSexGotScrewedUp.com #FashionHistory #macho #PopularCulture #SexEd #style
Call for Papers - Critical Feminist Histories in Canada
The Canadian Committee on Women’s and Gender History
October 2-4, 2026
Submission Deadline: March 27, 2026
niche-canada.org/2026/03/20/c...
#envhist #cdnhist #wmnhist #genderhistory #feminism
Even though things are beginning to change, the guilt & shame Christians bred about sex remain. They just should preach the reality: non-procreative sex is good for us & basic to life in nature—a real problem for most of them. #HistSex #GenderHistory #QueerHistory
DYK straight men had to #ejaculate a spoonful of #cum into the Beggar’s Benison Testing Platter for club initiation during 18thC England? Do #StraightGuys watch each other come today? HowSexGotScrewedUp.com #bators #CircleJerk #GenderHistory #GroupSex
DYK #Persephone ate #pomegranate, a folk #contraceptive, while in #Hades realm to keep from having kids by her #rapist? Women have always used #BirthControl. #MargaretSanger finally made it legal in 1936 U.S. Ghosts of #GenderHistory still haunt. HowSexGotScrewedUp.com
DYK straight men drank ritual wine out of a phallic chalice at the 18thC Wig Club in England? Do straight guys put their mouths on anything like a #penis today? Ghosts of #GenderHistory still haunt.
HowSexGotScrewedUp.com #HistSex #PhallusThursday #QueerHistory
DYK many of the all-male actors in #Kabuki lived their lives as women? Many were mistresses to men. Why is it so dangerous to be a #transwoman today? Ghosts of #GenderHistory still haunt. HowSexGotScrewedUp.com #CrossDress #QueerHistory #trans #transhistory
🌐 Hybrid event - open to online participants 🌐
Beyond the rhetoric of inclusion
On 23 March, 15.00 CET, join a lecture by Angéla Kóczé on racialised Romani women and the limits of European equality 👉 loom.ly/7KlWe6o
📣 #romanihistory #genderhistory #politicalhistory
DYK the Muslim #hajib descends from the Christian wimple & veil? There are no laws in Christian nations against nuns still wearing them, but there are Christian laws against wearing the hajib. Ghosts of #GenderHistory still haunt. HowSexGotScrewedUp.com #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 “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
Very moving memorial panel for Prof. Janet Theiss, a sore loss to #qinghistory #genderhistory here at #aas2026 w a wonderful roster including Profs. Tobie Meyer-Fong, Paola Zamperini, Stephanie Painter, Wen-hsin Yeh, and Maram Epstein. What an exemplar of the generosity w which we should live.
DYK #GStanleyHall, authority on adolescence & 1st president of APA, warned in 1904, that higher education was dangerous for women? It would “#castrate” them, make them deplore childbirth & abhor married life. Ghosts of #GenderHistory still haunt. HowSexGotScrewedUp.com #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 doctors began stroking the clitoris to relieve #hysteria w/orgasm when #Hippocrates taught that a #WanderingWomb caused it? Docs did it for 1,000s of years. One in the 19thC invented the vibrator to spare his fingers. HowSexGotScrewedUp.com #GenderHistory #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
