DYK early 20thC #SocialPurity campaigns held that any woman who had sex out of marriage (#SexWorker or not) carried syphilis & lovemaking could be lethal? The U.S. jailed 1,000s of girls for being sexy! HowSexGotScrewedUp.com #GenderHistory #WmnHist

Calls for #SexEd beginning in the 20thC were nearly all for promoting #SocialPurity & ending #STIs, vice & #TeenPregnancy. Even #MargaretSanger’s 1914 teaching didn’t include #coitus. Most programs still don’t acknowledge the #SexDrive & #SexualPleasure

#SocialPurity movements in U.S. also led to prohibition of alcohol in 1920, when the #LeagueofNations raised #AgeOfConsent to 21. Society believed men spent too much time & money on booze & #SexWorkers. HowSexGotScrewedUp.com #HistSex #SexWork