The priest helped women & men do that. So people confessed many times during the year as a hedge against dying before their obligatory confession during Lent. Ghosts of #QueerHistory still haunt our #SexualShame. HowSexGotScrewedUp.com
DYK in Catholic colonies, #SexualShame was private & developed in the confessional, the use of which spread rapidly in the 17thC? Catholics had to confess all their #MortalSins at least once a year during Lent. The church refused to bury anyone who died w/o confessing them.
DYK one the most famous slogans of “deep penetration” advertising, which exploited sexual insecurity, was “I dreamed I stopped traffic in my Maidenform Bra”? It came out in 1949, ran for 20 years, & made breast size very important.
Ghosts of #WmnHist still haunt. #SexualShame
#Puritan men also feared sexually aggressive women. They claimed these witches “crawled through keyholes, climbed atop or pressed hard against” them as they slept, nearly suffocating them. Ghosts of #WmnHist still haunt. HowSexGotScrewedUp.com #SexualShame
DYK #QueerSex & love was open in the Middle Ages—just another kind of #fornication? The Vatican made it anathema in 14thC & burned #queers. Today, it condemns sexual minorities to #SexualShame & abuse. #QueerHistory is fascinating, gruesome & inspiring. HowSexGotScrewedUp.com
DYK in 325 #EmperorConstantine’s Council at Nicea declared nonCatholics were slaves & seized their property? Sex out of marriage became a sin & crime. Millions converted & began to lie to keep their homes—advent of #SexualHypocrisy & #SexualShame. HowSexGotScrewedUp.com
The priest helped women & men do that. So people confessed many times during the year as a hedge against dying before their obligatory confession during Lent. Ghosts of #QueerHistory still haunt our #SexualShame. HowSexGotScrewedUp.com
DYK in Catholic colonies, #SexualShame was private & developed in the confessional, the use of which spread rapidly in the 17thC? Catholics had to confess all their #MortalSins at least once a year during Lent. The church refused to bury anyone who died w/o confessing them.
DYK the human #SexDrive is so powerful, millions risked burning at the stake, homelessness, prison, stoning, shunning & torture to enjoy #SexualPleasure? Still do. Trying to frighten them out of it or withholding info has no effect but #SexualShame. HowSexGotScrewedUp.com
DYK the use of the private confessional spread rapidly in the 1600s? Priests used it to police thought. They began to teach that sexual desire—desiderium—& fantasy—delectatio morosa—were even more evil & sinful than squandering semen. Blog9 HowSexGotScrewedUp.com #SexualShame
This led to more people lying about their sex lives & true personal beliefs to keep the roofs over their heads. His new #AgeOfIntolerance created millennia of #SexualShame & social hypocrisy in which people condemn others for behaviors very like their own. HowSexGotScrewedUp.com
“I live freely and true to myself. It’s just hard to come out of the sexual shame.”
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DYK one of #Justinian’s (d.565) most important effects on our lives was turning papal #NaturalLaw into criminal law? He used the Vatican's false supposition that animals only had sex to reproduce to outlaw #BirthControl, #QueerSex, #SoloSex & #zoophiia Blog7 HowSexGotScrewedUp.com #SexualShame
DYK #KKKristians who want God in gov’t may not have satisfying sex lives? Their doctrine (any kind of #SexPlay, except marital coitus, is sinful) disrespects the real world. Folks who have great sex, aren’t that sort of #Christian. HowSexGotScrewedUp.com #HistSex #SexualShame
DYK in 1975, Pope Paul VI declared #SoloSex was still a mortal sin, even though he could find nothing about it in the bible? But he BELIEVED God had no love for anyone who did it. Another #DangerousChurchDoctrine causing #SexualShame!
The priest helped women & men do that. So people confessed many times during the year as a hedge against dying before their obligatory confession during Lent. Ghosts of #QueerHistory still haunt our #SexualShame. HowSexGotScrewedUp.com #zoophilia
He also invoked the 4 stages of penance for #fornication that #EmperorConstantine et al. put in place more than 300 years earlier—up to 11 years of homelessness, shunning & dressing in sackcloth & ashes. HowSexGotScrewedUp.com #HappyPride #OralSex #QueerSex #SexualShame
DYK folks at the Catholic church imposed sexual suppression & #BullShit about chastity under #EmperorConstantine at the Council of Nicea in 325? They have sexually inculcated #SexualShame for 1,000s of years—the way #TrumpKKKristians enjoy it. HowSexGotScrewedUp.com #HistSex
Since then, Christians imposed their opposition to anything sexual on the world, barely allowing coitus when reproduction is possible, causing #SexualShame among millions. #Darwin’s evolutionary biology suffers from that anti-sex bias & still advances Christian shame about sex.
DYK the perverse history of the Catholic church? In establishing "the one true Catholic church" at the Council of Nicea in 325, Emperor Constantine also made it illegal to have sex outside of marriage! And so #SexualShame & the #AgeOfIntolerance were born.
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He also invoked the 4 stages of penance for #fornication that #EmperorConstantine et al. put in place more than 300 years earlier—up to 11 years of homelessness, shunning & dressing in sackcloth & ashes. HowSexGotScrewedUp.com #OralSex #QueerSex #SexualShame
DYK #EmperorConstantine dealt us all a huge blow when in 325, at the Council of Nicea, he made Catholicism Rome's state religion & bishops tax exempt, & outlawed sex out of straight marriage? Millions still live w/the burden of #SexualShame he imposed. HowSexGotScrewedUp.com
But even as people ignored the church’s rules, & still do, their shame increased & confused their personal attitudes to #SexPlay & #gender, making them dramatically more unhappy w/their #SexLives. HowSexGotScrewedUp.com #HistSex #SexualShame
never had to resort to this kind of hateful sexual indoctrination to build their own very advanced civilizations. To excuse the church’s cruelty furthers the damage. HowSexGotScrewedUp.com #SexualShame
Burchard of Worms’ penitentials had a very long life. In the middle of the 12thC, the theologian Gratian incorporated them into canon law of the church—where they still sit! HowSexGotScrewedUp.com #Guilt #HistSex #SexualShame #StillDoctrine
A new psychology paper examines how sexual shame—shaped by biological, psychological, and cultural factors—reduces arousal, desire, and overall sexual functioning in women, proposing a theoretical model linking these factors… #SexualShame #WomensIntimacy #SexualHealth #Psychology #WomenEmpowerment
