“and redeploys them according to a new set of criteria. In so doing, Metalious anticipated (and indeed may have helped to trigger) the subsequent widespread & popularized feminist movement of the 1960s.” Ghosts of #WmnHist still haunt.
HowSexGotScrewedUp.com #patriarchy
“and the woman takes care of the home and family.”
It took until 1994 for two out of three Americans to reject this idea. Ghosts of #WmnHist still haunt. HowSexGotScrewedUp.com #patriarchy
DYK #Lysol killed 193 women who took it for #BirthControl in 1911? Neither the AMA nor FDA could stop Lysol’s sales bc it didn’t claim to be a medicine for disease. But door-to-door salespeople & catalogs like Sears sold it. Ghosts of #WmnHist still haunt. HowSexGotScrewedUp.com
DYK 17thC #Puritans believed the #myth a woman couldn’t get pregnant from #rape? Her womb had to “skip for joy” from #SexualPleasure. That couldn’t happen unless she gave consent to & delighted in #SexPlay. Ghosts of #WmnHist still haunt. HowSexGotScrewedUp.com
DYK in ancient Athens when a bride let her veil fall to reveal herself, it was called apokalypsis: the instant of sexual surrender? Giving in to a man the first time changed her life irrevocably. Apocalypse still means revelation or disaster. HowSexGotScrewedUp.com #WmnHist
DYK 17thC Latin American wives often tried to escape #malavida in #patriarchal marriage by giving witches’ magic potions to their husbands? Some even tried to turn abusive men into women. Ghosts of #WmnHist still haunt. HowSexGotScrewedUp.com
DYK in 1963, “The New York Times” ads in its Help Wanted / Female section called for “attractive,” “good-looking,” & “pretty” secretaries. Many called for only single women. And there were other limitations for a woman. Ghosts of #WmnHist still haunt. #misogyny #patriarchy
“& no longer inferior. They didn’t & will probably pay the penalty for it in the long run.” Ghosts of #WmnHist still haunt. HowSexGotScrewedUp.com #misogyny #patriarchy #TrumpKKKristians
DYK in 1326, Pope John XXII (d.1334) declared #witchcraft was as bad as #heresy & #sodomy. His decree condemned all #witches (midwives, priests' wives) to burn at the stake w/heretics & #sodomites. Not a nice guy. Blog7 HowSexGotScrewedUp.com #bestiality #QueerSex #WmnHist
DYK #ThedaBara, the vamp& film’s leading lady in 1915, glamorized the “painted” look? Cosmeticswere no longer the domain of #SexWorkers. 1/5 American women, mostly working class“tough” girls used it, & spent 50¢ a year on it. HowSexGotScrewedUp.com #WmnHist
DYK in 1973, the SCOTUS, in #RoeVWade, struck down the 1859 Texas law that banned abortion? The court ruled that the right of privacy was constitutional. It extended to a woman’s decision, in consultation with her doctor, to have an #abortion. Ghosts of #WmnHist still haunt.
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 NYC’s Raines Laws of 1896 limited selling alcohol on Sundays to hotels w/at least 10 rooms? Within weeks, 1,000 bars expanded #SexWork by adding small bedrooms for #SexWorkers. Ghosts of #WmnHist still haunt. HowSexGotScrewedUp.com #DecrimNow #sexwork #SexWorkIsWork
Can we exorcise these ghosts? Understanding our #HistSex can, by answering an important question: Where do the ghosts that haunt our #SexualPleasure come from? Blog7 HowSexGotScrewedUp.com answers that question. #IntersexAwareness #QueerHistory #TransHistory #WmnHist #zoophilia
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 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 #AmbroiseParé (d.1590) advocated massage of the vulva to cure hysteria—"suffocation of the womb"? Doctors stimulated the clitoris to orgasm to treat #hysteria from #Hippocrates to 20thC. Ghosts of #WmnHist still haunt. HowSexGotScrewedUp.com #FemaleOrgasm
She had interfered w/the natural order of things & used “women’s” magic to do it. De Ugalde had no recourse than to turn to the church’s Inquisition to put him back in charge of his wife. Ghosts of #WmnHist still haunt. HowSexGotScrewedUp.com
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 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 18thC Spanish colonial culture programmed women to accept abuse? Many ended up disgusted w/themselves for taking steps to protect themselves, & often threw out their potions & took their remorse & regret to the confessional. Others were too scared to try.
#WmnHist
DYK the #Catholic church approved of early #abortion for more than 1,000 years? It believed a #fetus took up to 80 days to get a soul. Until then, it was fine to #abort an “invading” fetus inanimatus. Ghosts of #WmnHist still haunt. HowSexGotScrewedUp.com #TrumpChristians
DYK in the first half of the 20thC, many women had to go to “back alley abortionists”? It was quite risky. You had to have money and status for a safe legal abortion. The experience for a poor woman was very different from that of a rich one.
Ghosts of #WmnHist still haunt.
DYK in the 1950 abortion was illegal & there was such a powerful stigma against it that authorities in San Francisco sent women into asylums & gave them shock treatment if they wanted one? Their need was a “dangerous emotional disturbance”! HowSexGotScrewedUp.com #WmnHist
In 1969, in “Eisenstadt v. Baird”, SCOTUS legalized giving #BirthControl to all adults. In ‘77, in “Carey v. Population Services International”, it made it legal to sell birth control to minors & to display it in drugstores.” Ghosts of #WmnHist still haunt. HowSexGotScrewedUp.com
IN 1964, rubella swept the country & led to high rates of fetal deformity, which was when California enacted the country’s first liberal abortion reform act in more than 100 years. Ghosts of #WmnHist still haunt. HowSexGotScrewedUp.com #RFKJr #rubella #vaccine
DYK 11-y-o #Casanova’s response to a 16thC riddle?
Teach us, grammarians, why cunnus [vagina] is a masculine noun & why mentula [penis] is feminine?
No longer a virgin, he answered: “It is because the slave takes his name from the master.”
HowSexGotScrewedUp.com #WmnHist
DYK the Old Testament instructs us to cut the hand off a woman if she touches a man's testicles w/it during a fight? Only one of many woman-cancelling atrocities in the Bible. Ghosts of #WmnHist still haunt. HowSexGotScrewedUp.com #doctrine #fundamentalism #TrumpKKKristian
The work would also help Rice-Wray support #PlannedParenthood in San Juan.
The trials were a success. In 1957, the FDA approved the first pill, Enovid. Ghosts of #WmnHist still haunt. HowSexGotScrewedUp.com #ThePill
“Those were the most liberal set of regulations in the country for elective sterilization, & we were sterilizing hundreds of Hispanics, blacks, poor women, who up to that time were having children every year. … a lot of people…qualified.” HowSexGotScrewedUp.com #WmnHist
