DYK guilt, penance, & the whipping post were not the only penalties for sex outside of marriage in colonial America? There were also #SexInfections. By 1718, the whites in Louisiana had so many, they planned to build a special hospital.
#STIs #STDs
DYK during World War II, the U.S. War Department published a lot about how women, not men, caused #SexInfections? Its 1943 pamphlet “So You’ve Got a Furlough Coming Up” summed up women’s role & omitted the role of men:
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DYK 20thC officials saw women as the CAUSE of #SexInfections? A woman was even a direct threat to national defense. Major General Charles R. Reynolds said so at a meeting of the American Public Health Association in 1940. He declared
Morrow wanted to make #SexInfections reportable. His book did help some doctors realize they were a threat to women & their families, but did little to change the #DoubleStandard.
Ghosts of #WmnHist still haunt. #ASHA #STDs #STIs
DYK early 20thC social purity groups that sprang up to fight #SexWork & #SexInfections led to one of the most fanatical schemes of social engineering in history—#eugenics. They supported laws against mixed-race sex & socializing of any kind.
DYK to the medieval mind, sex was always sinful & could cause disease. All plants & animals that reproduce sexually have #SexInfections. But the medieval were quick to blame #SexPlay for events & diseases that had nothing to do with it, such as #leprosy/Hansen’s disease.
DYK in 1915, #SCOTUS decided the First Amendment did not protect film? Catholic #censorship stopped Public Health Films about the dangers of #SexInfections such as 1918’s “End of the Road” & “Fit to Win” & 1919’s “Know Thy Husband” & “Open Your Eyes”. HowSexGotScrewedUp.com
Hanchett also believed bedding, eating utensils, towels, & water fountains carried #SexInfections. This let men off the hook for infecting their wives. He also went blind for a time from the stress of playing the piano. HowSexGotScrewedUp.com
DYK the use of fear of #SexInfections in #SexEd took a toll on young people? Benjamin C. Gruenberg (d.1965) voiced it in his article, “SexEducation in Secondary Schools: 1938” for the “Journal of Social Hygiene”:
It would also keep the family from falling apart. Winfield Scott’ Pugh's “Instead of Wild Oats—A Little Book for the Youth of 18 & Over” placed blame for the high rates of #SexInfections on the #DoubleStandard” Ghosts of #HistSex still haunt. HowSexGotScrewedUp.com #STDs #STIs
DYK almshouses in colonial Philadelphia used abrasive therapies to cure #SexInfections in their “polishing rooms”? Doctors used a nautical vernacular in their notes about the sex workers they treated. They reported, for example, that Elanor Murren had been
