DYK in 18thC, #SexWithAnimals was a crime—#sodomy, but many still did it? This is from 1803 “Le Diable au corps”—“The Devil in the Flesh” by Andréa de Nerciat. Ghosts of #HistSex haunt. HowSexGotScrewedUp.com #bestiality #zoophilia #ZooSex Blog7 #ZooSexuality
DYK medieval #Christians opposed #SexWork but thought sex workers built masculinity, cut down on #bestiality, gang #rape, #incest, #bigamy, & #QueerSex? #SexWorkers also served as #BirthControl for Catholic wives. Blog7 HowSexGotScrewedUp.com #DecrimNow #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
50 years of activism, translating texts from the Early #GermanGayMovement, especially by Karl Heinrich Ulrichs #KarlHeinrichUlrichs and Magnus Hirschfeld #histsex #MagnusHirschfeld #lgbtqHistory 🌈🏳️⚧️♀️🔻♂️Ο
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The Gay Rights Movement began in Germany: Scientific study of sexuality. First sex reassignment surgeries. Study of Intersexuality. A vibrant LGBT night life in Berlin. Before the backlash -- the oppression and mass murder of the fascist Nazi years. 🌈🏳️⚧️Ο #histsex
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The Early #GermanGayMovement was recorded every year in the Annual of Sexual Intermediaries, ed. by Magnus Hirschfeld. Vols. 1-23, 1899 to 1923 (all) now in English. eBook, Paperback, Hardcover
#Transgender 🏳️⚧️ #Intersex Ο & #lgbtqHistory 🌈#MagnusHirschfeld #histsex
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DYK public baths & bathing were common in Europe until 14thC’s #BlackDeath? They still went on in Germany where folks walked nude to the baths & still enjoy being naked. In U.S. #PublicNudity is a crime. HowSexGotScrewedUp.com. #HistSex #PersonalHygiene
DYK our penis length lets us fuck face-to-face? This helps make us human. We can watch partners take pleasure. Most animals don’t. Our sex lasts longer & leads to more intimacy, stronger relationships & better communication—to civilization. HowSexGotScrewedUp.com #HistSex
DYK King #EdwardI expelled Jews from England in 1290? The crown punished anyone who had sex w/them the way it punished those who had #QueerSex or #bestiality: It buried them alive. Ghosts of #HistSex still haunt. Blog7 HowSexGotScrewedUp.com #QueerHistory #zoophilia
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
#histsex folks:
Cover of a book titled Sexology, by Magnus Hirschfeld. Translator: Michael Lombardi-Nash
Michael @lombardinash.bsky.social continúa su encomiable traducción al inglés de la obra de Hirschfeld. Le toca por fin turno a la esencial Geschlechtskunde (1926-1930) #histsex
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DYK #EmperorJustinian’s wife, #EmpressTheodora, was a #StripTease dancer in her youth? Some said her “gimmick” was #bestiality w/geese pecking grain from her vagina. She became a Christian prude, arch-conservative & saint. Blog7 HowSexGotScrewedUp.com #HistSex #zoophilia
DYK about #EdwardVII’s "machina d'amour"? He had them built so #SexWorkers could more easily please him & handle his girth. #Victoria’s son depended on #SexWork! Why do we still stigmatize it as his mother did? Ghosts of #HistSex still haunt. HowSexGotScrewedUp.com #DecrimNow
DYK #penis display customs are #tribal? Some wear gourds on them to look #erect, go to jail for attracting attention to them, scar them, cut off #foreskins, pierce & hang jewelry on them, shave #PubicHair, or cut “#vaginas” under the #testicles. HowSexGotScrewedUp.com #HistSex
DYK the Vatican took 350 yrs to admit #Galileo (d.1642) was correct to report Earth revolves around the sun? It has yet to admit #QueerSex & #InterspeciesSex are “natural” among animals. Ghosts of #HistSex still haunt. Blog7 HowSexGotScrewedUp.com #bestiality #QueerHistory
DYK some animals seek out & #consent to #ZooSex? My book includes a report of a dolphin in the wild who sought out a human sex partner for an ongoing relationship. Then there’s this horse! Blog7 HowSexGotScrewedUp.com #bestiality #HistSex #zoophilia
DYK 14th & 13thC BCE #Hittites peppered their laws w/the word “#abomination”. They often used it to describe theft, murder & a number of #SexActs. For example, it was #taboo for parents to #HaveSex w/their kids or w/certain animals. HowSexGotScrewedUp.com #bestiality #HistSex
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 sex drives are stronger than risk evaluation? Bowerbirds who build intriguing seduction sites to attract females, beat them nearly to death after mating are one example. Humans risk unwanted pregnancy, punishment, scorn, shunning, & STIs. HowSexGotScrewedUp.com #HistSex
DYK John Hunter (d.1793) inoculated himself w/#gonorrhea pus & came down w/syphilis as well? He concluded that they were the same disease, not that the man from whom he took the sample also had #syphilis. Ghosts of #HistSex still haunt. HowSexGotScrewedUp.com #STDs #STIs
Ghosts of #HistSex still haunt. Understanding that can help us get over it. Blog7 HowSexGotScrewedUp.com #SCOTUSisTooCatholic
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, until this century, brothers in India’s Himalayas took one wife together to keep their fanilies’ land undivided? Children called the oldest husband their dad. The other husbands were “uncles”. This is rising again in the Punjab. HowSexGotScrewedUp.com #HistSex #polyandry
“The camel had to put up equally, & because it was the hundredth, Mahomet spoke his special benediction over it, blessed & sanctified the animal.” Ghosts of the #HistSex still haunt. HowSexGotScrewedUp.com #bestiality #sodomy
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
"a veritable Bridgerton on the Bann" 😘
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Many thanks to Lynsey Black for this lovely review of my book, Pious & Promiscuous. Life, Love and Family in Ulster.
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#HistSex #HistFam #PiousPromiscuous
Join us for our next IHR #histsex seminar 14 April, 5:30pm UK time.
Wannes Dupont : "Unwilling To Know: Male Homosexuality at the Crossroads of Europe, 1870-1965"
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All welcome but registration is required, as capacity is limited for this ONLINE seminar.
DYK reproduction & #SexualDesire were venerated as separate forces in the ancient religions of the west? Fertility & #SexPlay were rarely confused w/one another. Crossover cults might muddle them together—but not usually. Blog8 HowSexGotScrewedUp.com #HistSex
DYK only 5% species of mammal are sexually #monogamous? Some humans are too. #LGBT or #straight, many women & men try to have only 1 important partner for long-term sexual relationships. Others are openly #polygamous. HowSexGotScrewedUp.com #HistSex #relationships
