DYK #DanileDefoe agreed w/medieval Christians & condemned all #SexPlay but #coitus in the #MissionaryPosition? In his 1725 “The Uses & Abuses of the Marriage Bed”, he claimed nature designed sex for reproduction only & castigated husbands for satisfying “desire alone”. #HistSex

DYK Emperor #CharlesV issued his “Penal Rules”—“Peinlich Gerichtsordnung” in 1532, which established the death penalty for users of #BirthControl? The church went on record w/Charles in 1566, the year it put out its first & still influential Catechism.

DYK where the heart as a symbol of love came from? Long before the Pill, many ancient women used heart-shaped seeds of #silphium for #BirthControl? The beautiful goddess associated w/silphium was Cyrene, who inspired Apollo’s love. HowSexGotScrewedUp.com #GenderHistory

DYK pairs of Roman consuls would review the moral status of each of Rome’s 5,000 equites/knights annually? If one was #infamia/#ignominia for letting himself be penetrated anally, they'd take away his horse, home, property, & right to vote. HowSexGotScrewedUp.com #QueerHistory

DYK bathing & public baths were very common in Europe until 14thC’s Black Death? They continued in Germany. People walked nearly #naked to the baths. #SexWorkers & #Queers cruised in them. Ghosts of #QueerHistory still haunt. HowSexGotScrewedUp.com.

DYK Christians prefer adultery to #QueerSex because it is procreative!?! Christian fathers, such as Augustine, decided that #sodomy (ejaculation w/o #coitus) was a worse crime & sin than #rape, which is why #TrumpKKKristians still condemn #QueerSex & #bestiality.

DYK the Vatican violently rejected #sodomy w/the 1376 papal decree “Directorium inquisitorum”? It designated sodomites as “subhuman” & liable to execution & slavery, leading to New-World #genocide. Blog7 HowSexGotScrewedUp.com #Doctrine #AnalSex #OralSex #QueerHistory #zoophilia

DYK although the 15thC church agreed with Antoine de la Sale’s opposition to marriage, it burned every copy of the English version of “Les Quinze Joies de Mariage” because it was a parody of a litany to the Virgin Mary—“Les Quinze Joies de Notre Dame”? HowSexGotScrewedUp.com

DYK in 1936, Edmund Bergler declared that a woman who couldn’t have a vaginal orgasm was frigid? She was also #frigid if she had multiple orgasms. It was a world of ignorance & confusion & many young women grew up to have great fears of sex. HowSexGotScrewedUp.com #WmnHist

DYK stone #grotesques in some #Romanesque churches seem to approve #GaySex? One guy holds the other’s dick; both have halos! But some #Christians still see it as #sinful? Ghosts of #QueerHistory still haunt. HowSexGotScrewedUp.com

DYK the #ScopesTrial in 1925 reduced the status of #fundamentalists as moral guides in the U.S.? But #RonaldReagan & #DonaldTrump brought them back in spades. Churches should lose #TaxExemption for insisting adherents support anti-science #Trump. HowSexGotScrewedUp.com

DYK French Jesuit, Jean-Pierre Gury was the most widely read 19thC theologian. In 1850, his “Compendium theologiæ moralis—The Manual of Moral Theology” instructed that “In our days the horrible plague of onanism [pulling out] has spread all over.” HowSexGotScrewedUp.com

DYK the #NeoMalthusian League established itself in the Netherlands in 1881 to support the use of #BirthControl? It offered birth control counseling & put out ads, booklets, & flyers about available methods. Ghosts of the #WmnHist still haunt. HowSexGotScrewedUp.com

DYK doctors still reassign the gender of boys born w/a #micropenis, about 1/4 inch or less? They cut it & #testes off, fashion a #vagina & the kid will never have an #orgasm! Ghosts of #GenderHistory still haunt. HowSexGotScrewedUp.com #IntersexAwareness

DYK consorts of #MagnaMater, #Cybele, pledged #SexualPurity? Her priests—galli—#castrated themselves, penis as well as testicles & #CrossDressed as women. Like cinaedi, gallus became a term of ridicule for #passive or #effeminate men. Ghosts of #QueerHistory still haunt.

DYK Pope Innocent IV's 1252 bull, “Ad extirpandum”, gave the Holy Office of the Inquisition permission to torture "sodomites" to gain their confession? They could also execute those who confessed #AnalSex, #SoloSex, #QueerSex, or #bestiality! Blog7 HowSexGotScrewedUp.com

DYK one of #Justinian’s (d.565) important effects on our lives was making papal #NaturalLaw into criminal law? Falsely supposing animals only had sex to reproduce inflated bias against #BirthControl, #QueerSex, #SoloSex & #zoophiia ‘til today. Blog7 HowSexGotScrewedUp.com

DYK Margery Burnham married John Kempe in 1393. #MargeryKempe claimed God appeared to her & asked her to do w/o sex. Her husband insisted on his conjugal rights. After her 14th child, he grudgingly agreed to a chaste marriage so she could pursue her life as a saint.

DYK the medieval Catholic Church urged all married couples to go w/o #SexPlay, or have very little of it, within their marriages? It promoted the Old Testament story of Sarah & Tobit. Before marrying Tobit, Sarah had 7 husbands who were lechers but unable to take her virginity

DYK Romanesque churches used stone #grotesques/#SheelaNaGig to make women & men fear the “sin” of #SexualPleasure? This type of “femme aux serpents” is from the façade of an early 12-century church in Saint-Jouin-de-Marnes, France. HowSexGotScrewedUp.com

It is bullshit to suggest Christianity spread because of its doctrines! In fact, Theodosius made it illegal for anyone in the 4thC to belong to any religion except Catholicism, the only legally recognized church until Martin Luther! The punishment was homelessness or death! HowSexGotScrewedUp.com

DYK the federal govt. warned #MargaretSanger to stop publishing “The Woman Rebel”, but she defied it: writing, printing, circulating copies & used the U.S. mail to do it. The govt. suppressed the March, May, & July issues, & refused to let her send them through the mail.

DYK 1,000s of women #CrossDressed to join the crusades beginning in 1095? Many were #lesbian or #trans, but only men could serve among the #troops, so, like #JoanofArc, many imitated guys to enjoy their prerogatives. Ghosts of #QueerHistory still haunt. HowSexGotScrewedUp.com

DYK 2ndC #Tertullian& #ClementOfAlexandria said #SexPlaybroke “natural law” if it couldn’t make offspring? No #QueerSex, #SoloSex, #zoophilia, #BirthControl, or sex if infertile, pregnant, or menstruating! Big mistake—animals have nonprocreative sex! HowSexGotScrewedUp.com

DYK #ThomasAquinas (d. 1274), known as a scholar, had definite limitations as a thinker: he taught #BirthControl, #SoloSex, #QueerSex & #bestiality were worse sins than #rape because they can’t make babies—breaking “Natural Law”. Still doctrine! Blog7 HowSexGotScrewedUp.com

DYK in 1931, Robert Latou Dickinson & Lura Ella Beam verified that women had orgasms—even w/o touch to their sex organs? “A Thousand Marriages—A Medical Study of Sex Adjustment” included sex histories of 5,000 of his women patients:

DYK during Prohibition (1920–33) organized crime also took over #SexWork? “Bookies” set clients up w/sex workers & moved them from address to address. When “Motzie” de Nicola went to prison in 1936, he was making $2 million a year from booking girls. HowSexGotScrewedUp.com

DYK many medieval churches used stone grotesques/#SheelaNaGig to make women & men fear the “sin” of #SexualPleasure? Many still see #SexPlay as shameful & sinful. Ghosts of #HistSex still #haunt. HowSexGotScrewedUp.com #doctrine #fundmentalists #PopularCulture #TrumpKKKristians

DYK #CesareLombroso (d.1909), father of #forensics, published “L’amore nei pazzi”—“Love Among the Insane” advising that #QueerDesire was an inversion of sex & also a pathology? Ghosts of #HistSex still haunt. HowSexGotScrewedUp.com

DYK the Vatican took a dim view of #JonathanSwift & placed "Gulliver's Travels" (1726) on its "Index of Forbidden Books", making it a mortal sin for a Catholic to read it? HowSexGotScrewedUp.com

DYK at least one pope wrote recipes for #abortion & #BirthControl? Doctor Peter of Spain became Pope John XXI (1215–77). His “Thesaurus Pauperam”—“Treasure of the Poor”, was a huge success. An Italian print edition, under his papal name, appeared more than two centuries later.

DYK #GeoffreyChaucer was quite able to see the fun & joy of mixed-sex sex & all its tomfoolery in “The Canterbury Tales”? But he took #QueerSex as a sin. His parson calls it an “abhominable synne, of which that no man unethe [barely] oghte speke ne write.” HowSexGotScrewedUp.com

DYK Ferdinand & Isabella got lots of $$$ from their Inquisition by driving Jews & Muslims out of Spain & seizing the property of the #sodomites/#queers they murdered? Columbus used the blood money to murder & enslave #IndigenousPeople in the "New World". HowSexGotScrewedUp.com

DYK 325 was the dawn of the #AgeOfIntolerance? #EmperorConstantine’s Council at Nicaea made non-Catholics homeless slaves & made sins & crimes of “sodomy”: #AnalSex, #OralSex, #QueerSex, #SoloSex, & #zoophilia. #DangerousChurchDoctrine Blog7 HowSexGotScrewedUp.com

DYK the fervor & power of the Vatican’s Holy #Inquisition against #sodomites (anyone who ejaculated w/#SexPlay outside of #coitus w/#QueerSex or #bestiality) grew quickly in the first few decades after the Fourth Lateran Council established it in 1215? HowSexGotScrewedUp.com

DYK theologian Guillaume d’Auxerre (d.1231) was one of many who warned that any pleasure in #SexPlay was a sin—even if two people were married?

DYK there were some realistic depictions of #SexWork in early 20thC? One was an autobiography, “Madeleine” by Madeleine Blair (pen name). She dismissed the myth of white slavery & the popular belief that damned sex workers. After leaving “the life” she said

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 in 1854, George Drysdale claimed the #condom was ugly, decreased pleasure, & caused impotence? In his “Elements of Social Science, Or Physical, Sexual & Natural Religion” he advised early marriage w/use of the vaginal sponge, warm-water douches, & a “rhythm method”.

DYK in 1839 Charles #Goodyear vulcanized rubber, which improved #BirthControl methods? More would use latex condoms—“rubbers”—than those made out of animal tissue. Latex also gave longer life to penis caps, syringes for douching, & “womb veils”. HowSexGotScrewedUp.com

DYK #Christians spent more than 1,000 yrs. trying to wipe out #LGBT people? Their laws & #inquisitions murdered & marginalized all #queers. #Trump’s #Evangelical base carries on this #Catholic tradition. Ghosts of #QueerHistory still haunt. HowSexGotScrewedUp.com

DYK the church likes having things both ways? The Pope apologizes for travesties against #IndigenousPeople, but lets stay in place #DangerousChurchDoctrine against non-procreative sex, that brought them about. Ghosts of #QueerHistory still haunt. HowSexGotScrewedUp.com

DYK by 1929, 24 states had begun to #sterilize people to prevent alleged genetic defects? By 1958, they forcibly sterilized 60,926 people. By 1932, at least 26 states permitted #sterilization of “unfit” women & men for “… feeblemindedness, insanity, #epilepsy, idiocy,

DYK by the end of 18thC, some states took execution out of their #sodomy laws? Pennsylvania was one of them. Starting in 1786, it only seized a man’s property & indentured him for up to 10 years for #QueerSex or #bestiality.

DYK the Vatican was never really gung ho for marriage? It supported propaganda against marriage. One example was the anonymous 13thC, “The Holy Maidenhead”, which supported total of virginity—“the treasure that once lost can never be found”—a mystical marriage w/Christ.

DYK it took 1,500 yrs, the Council of Trent, the #Inquisition, & the death penalty to end marriage of Catholic priests? Now wedding couples had to pay the church a hefty fee for saying the service, & the leakage of church revenue & property to the families of priests stopped.

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 Christians undid #IndigenousPeople's broad approval of nonbinary gender variations & #WomensRights? Their #Inquisitions used #sodomy to excuse #genocide, enslave “New World” women & men, & make their kids illegitimate. HowSexGotScrewedUp.com #GenderHistory

DYK #Muslim Spain in the Middle Ages exalted #QueerLove? There many expressions in Arabic for same-sex love, eroticism, & #SexWork. Most of the #Muslim erotic poetry published was about same-sex relationships.

DYK in 1905, #SigmundFreud published “Three Essays on the Theory of Sexuality” claiming that the prime erogenous zone in girls was the clitoris, but he wanted adult women to make it their vaginas? If they couldn’t, he warned that they would become numb to sex. #WmnHist