Jon Knowles
@howsexgotscrewedup.bsky.social
#HistSex
"How Sex Got Screwed Up"
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"How Sex Got Screwed Up"
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DYK 19thC social purity feminists also wanted to ban #SoloSex? They expected men to limit sex play to fulfill only the needs of the family for having kids. They were not seeking #SexualLiberation for women & wanted to take it from men. HowSexGotScrewedUp.com #HistSex #bators
September 26, 2026 at 2:50 PM
DYK 19thC social purity feminists also wanted to ban #SoloSex? They expected men to limit sex play to fulfill only the needs of the family for having kids. They were not seeking #SexualLiberation for women & wanted to take it from men. HowSexGotScrewedUp.com #HistSex #bators
DYK founder #BadenPowell's negative views of #SoloSex appeared in #BoyScout manuals during the 20thC. Boys should wash the penis in cold water every day to avoid it. "If you still have trouble about it...go to your scoutmaster & talk it over w/him." !!! HowSexGotScrewedUp.com
September 26, 2026 at 2:48 PM
DYK founder #BadenPowell's negative views of #SoloSex appeared in #BoyScout manuals during the 20thC. Boys should wash the penis in cold water every day to avoid it. "If you still have trouble about it...go to your scoutmaster & talk it over w/him." !!! HowSexGotScrewedUp.com
DYK the 19thC spirit of #coverture survived in many ways in the 1960s USA? Wisconsin refused to pay the tuition of young women whose husbands were fighting the war in Vietnam because the wives LEGALLY lived in Vietnam w/their husbands so they were illegal residents of the state!
September 26, 2026 at 2:47 PM
DYK the 19thC spirit of #coverture survived in many ways in the 1960s USA? Wisconsin refused to pay the tuition of young women whose husbands were fighting the war in Vietnam because the wives LEGALLY lived in Vietnam w/their husbands so they were illegal residents of the state!
DYK the 19thC spirit of #coverture was still alive in 1960? “Family Weekly” magazine’s “Could You Win this ‘Good Wife’ Certificate?” listed the qualities of a good wife:
1. She makes her husband feel like he’s the boss.
2. She shares her husband’s goals as if they were her own.
1. She makes her husband feel like he’s the boss.
2. She shares her husband’s goals as if they were her own.
September 26, 2026 at 2:44 PM
DYK the 19thC spirit of #coverture was still alive in 1960? “Family Weekly” magazine’s “Could You Win this ‘Good Wife’ Certificate?” listed the qualities of a good wife:
1. She makes her husband feel like he’s the boss.
2. She shares her husband’s goals as if they were her own.
1. She makes her husband feel like he’s the boss.
2. She shares her husband’s goals as if they were her own.
DYK criminologist Katherine Bement Davis showed in 1921 that 29 out of 100 women were “partially #homosexual” & moved easily between mixed-sex & same-sex relationships? More than 18 of 100 unmarried women had same-sex sex. So did 16 of 100 of the married. HowSexGotScrewedUp.com
September 26, 2026 at 2:41 PM
DYK criminologist Katherine Bement Davis showed in 1921 that 29 out of 100 women were “partially #homosexual” & moved easily between mixed-sex & same-sex relationships? More than 18 of 100 unmarried women had same-sex sex. So did 16 of 100 of the married. HowSexGotScrewedUp.com
DYK in 15thC cities such as Venice, mixed-sex #fornication/#SexPlay before marriage stopped being a “sin” against God? Christians no longer saw the Devil as the only spirit who aroused sexual desire. So did love.
September 26, 2026 at 2:36 PM
DYK in 15thC cities such as Venice, mixed-sex #fornication/#SexPlay before marriage stopped being a “sin” against God? Christians no longer saw the Devil as the only spirit who aroused sexual desire. So did love.
DYK Terry Gould’s 1999 “The Lifestyle—A Look at the Erotic Rites of Swingers.” took a positive view? It ignored the negative judgments made in the popular press. Mags such as “Cosmopolitan”, “Esquire”, & “Penthouse” all looked at swingers as deviates. HowSexGotScrewedUp.com
September 26, 2026 at 2:34 PM
DYK Terry Gould’s 1999 “The Lifestyle—A Look at the Erotic Rites of Swingers.” took a positive view? It ignored the negative judgments made in the popular press. Mags such as “Cosmopolitan”, “Esquire”, & “Penthouse” all looked at swingers as deviates. HowSexGotScrewedUp.com
DYK #PlinytheElder’s (d.79) “Naturalis Historia” suggested we look to elephants for examples of #SelfControl because they only mated every 2 years? He seemed unaware that elephants have other kinds of sex: #SoloSex/#QueerSex/#InterspeciesSex. HowSexGotScrewedUp.com #zoophilia
September 26, 2026 at 2:33 PM
DYK #PlinytheElder’s (d.79) “Naturalis Historia” suggested we look to elephants for examples of #SelfControl because they only mated every 2 years? He seemed unaware that elephants have other kinds of sex: #SoloSex/#QueerSex/#InterspeciesSex. HowSexGotScrewedUp.com #zoophilia
DYK #Aristotle was such a misogynist that he taught mothers weren't parents? They just provided the soil of their wombs in which a man’s seed could grow. His daft idea prevailed in the medical profession for millennia. HowSexGotScrewedUp.com #GenderHistory #WmnHist
September 26, 2026 at 2:32 PM
DYK #Aristotle was such a misogynist that he taught mothers weren't parents? They just provided the soil of their wombs in which a man’s seed could grow. His daft idea prevailed in the medical profession for millennia. HowSexGotScrewedUp.com #GenderHistory #WmnHist
DYK 18thC #bestiality/#zoosex was a crime, but many women & men still did it? This is from 1803 “Le Diable au corps”—“The Devil In The Flesh” by Andréa de Nerciat. Ghostsof #HistSex still haunt. HowSexGotScrewedUp.com #zoophilia #zoosexuality
September 26, 2026 at 2:29 PM
DYK 18thC #bestiality/#zoosex was a crime, but many women & men still did it? This is from 1803 “Le Diable au corps”—“The Devil In The Flesh” by Andréa de Nerciat. Ghostsof #HistSex still haunt. HowSexGotScrewedUp.com #zoophilia #zoosexuality
DYK novelist Émile Laurent (d.1897) described some women’s theft of silk as a #fetish & sexual turn on:
HowSexGotScrewedUp.com #HistSex #kleptomania #WmnHist
HowSexGotScrewedUp.com #HistSex #kleptomania #WmnHist
September 25, 2026 at 4:44 PM
DYK novelist Émile Laurent (d.1897) described some women’s theft of silk as a #fetish & sexual turn on:
HowSexGotScrewedUp.com #HistSex #kleptomania #WmnHist
HowSexGotScrewedUp.com #HistSex #kleptomania #WmnHist
DYK some 19thC doctors thought women (not men) carried their passion for love too far? Jean-étienne Esquirol (d.1840) invented “#erotomania”. It was when a woman thought an unobtainable man, either married or of a different social class, loved her. HowSexGotScrewedUp.com #HistSex
September 25, 2026 at 4:41 PM
DYK some 19thC doctors thought women (not men) carried their passion for love too far? Jean-étienne Esquirol (d.1840) invented “#erotomania”. It was when a woman thought an unobtainable man, either married or of a different social class, loved her. HowSexGotScrewedUp.com #HistSex
DYK the armed services did not have regs against #lesbians until the end of WWII? The Army’s Chief of Staff, George Marshall, put new ones in the medical bulletin, “TB MED 100” to prevent the Women’s Army Corps from accepting lesbians.
September 25, 2026 at 4:40 PM
DYK the armed services did not have regs against #lesbians until the end of WWII? The Army’s Chief of Staff, George Marshall, put new ones in the medical bulletin, “TB MED 100” to prevent the Women’s Army Corps from accepting lesbians.
DYK U.S. military forces gave a blue #DishonorableDischarge to 100,000 #lesbians & #gays by 1980? They informed their home community to make it hard for #queers to find work, go to school, or get insurance & no unemployment benefits! HowSexGotScrewedUp.com #queerhistory.
September 25, 2026 at 4:37 PM
DYK U.S. military forces gave a blue #DishonorableDischarge to 100,000 #lesbians & #gays by 1980? They informed their home community to make it hard for #queers to find work, go to school, or get insurance & no unemployment benefits! HowSexGotScrewedUp.com #queerhistory.
DYK in 1997, #DossieEaston & Catherine A. Liszt, a.k.a. #Janet Hardy, put out “The Ethical Slut”, which became the #polyamory community’s bible? Women & men in groups of more than two lovers lived as equals. They based their sex lives on mutual trust, consent, & understanding.
September 25, 2026 at 4:34 PM
DYK in 1997, #DossieEaston & Catherine A. Liszt, a.k.a. #Janet Hardy, put out “The Ethical Slut”, which became the #polyamory community’s bible? Women & men in groups of more than two lovers lived as equals. They based their sex lives on mutual trust, consent, & understanding.
DYK in the 1960s and ‘70s, more & more young people lived “counter-culture” lives? Some lived on communes & played w/new forms of relationships, family constellations, & sexuality. Many had intimate, sexual, & / or loving relations w/more than one person.
#HistSex
#HistSex
September 25, 2026 at 4:31 PM
DYK in the 1960s and ‘70s, more & more young people lived “counter-culture” lives? Some lived on communes & played w/new forms of relationships, family constellations, & sexuality. Many had intimate, sexual, & / or loving relations w/more than one person.
#HistSex
#HistSex
DYK Pope #UrbanII argued for 1st crusade in 1096, setting Catholic against Muslim w/false accusations of rape of virgins, circumcising Christians & #sodomy? He wreaked havoc on Europe & Middle East, & made an evil of #bestiality & #QueerSex. howsexgotscrewedup.com #circumcision
September 25, 2026 at 4:02 PM
DYK Pope #UrbanII argued for 1st crusade in 1096, setting Catholic against Muslim w/false accusations of rape of virgins, circumcising Christians & #sodomy? He wreaked havoc on Europe & Middle East, & made an evil of #bestiality & #QueerSex. howsexgotscrewedup.com #circumcision
DYK #MagnusHirschfeld's burned library on human sexuality included books & journals by #MargaretSanger? Nazis, like today's #TrumpKKKristians, opposed #abortion, #bestiality, #BirthControl #QueerSex, & #SoloSex, all written about in his collection. Blog1&7 HowSexGotScrewedUp.com
September 25, 2026 at 4:01 PM
DYK #MagnusHirschfeld's burned library on human sexuality included books & journals by #MargaretSanger? Nazis, like today's #TrumpKKKristians, opposed #abortion, #bestiality, #BirthControl #QueerSex, & #SoloSex, all written about in his collection. Blog1&7 HowSexGotScrewedUp.com
DYK this 1787 illustration by William Ward for “Tom Jones” is #pornography today? Molly Seagrim draws back a curtain during coitus w/Jones exposing Tom’s tutor, Mr. Square, as 1 of her many lovers. How did it get to be the object of #censorship? HowSexGotScrewedUp.com #HistSex
September 25, 2026 at 3:35 PM
DYK this 1787 illustration by William Ward for “Tom Jones” is #pornography today? Molly Seagrim draws back a curtain during coitus w/Jones exposing Tom’s tutor, Mr. Square, as 1 of her many lovers. How did it get to be the object of #censorship? HowSexGotScrewedUp.com #HistSex
DYK politicos have spent a century shaping laws against sexual & reproductive rights that they suggest are not religious? But they are! Now, 6 corrupt justices use fake constitutional argument to impose KKKristianity on us. Blog8 HowSexGotScrewedUp.com #SCOTUSisTooCatholic
September 24, 2026 at 3:36 PM
DYK politicos have spent a century shaping laws against sexual & reproductive rights that they suggest are not religious? But they are! Now, 6 corrupt justices use fake constitutional argument to impose KKKristianity on us. Blog8 HowSexGotScrewedUp.com #SCOTUSisTooCatholic
DYK before Christianity, witches were healers? They were mostly women, as were their clients. Midwives, they also offered spells & potions to cure impotence & infertility & to prevent stillbirths & infant death. They also made love potions.
September 24, 2026 at 3:35 PM
DYK before Christianity, witches were healers? They were mostly women, as were their clients. Midwives, they also offered spells & potions to cure impotence & infertility & to prevent stillbirths & infant death. They also made love potions.
DYK a man’s biologic role in pregnancy began to fade a little w/the dawn of donor insemination in 1938? By 1953, there were 10,000 “test-tube” babies. Only married women could use the method & no one had to know that the dad was infertile, but he had to have a normal
September 24, 2026 at 3:32 PM
DYK a man’s biologic role in pregnancy began to fade a little w/the dawn of donor insemination in 1938? By 1953, there were 10,000 “test-tube” babies. Only married women could use the method & no one had to know that the dad was infertile, but he had to have a normal
DYK it was #HenryVIII who made “buggery” (#sodomy/#QueerSex) a capital crime in 1533? He used the law to facilitate pillaging Catholic monasteries of their wealth, which is how England's Catholic abbey's became ruins. HowSexGotScrewedUp.com #QueerHistory
September 24, 2026 at 3:30 PM
DYK it was #HenryVIII who made “buggery” (#sodomy/#QueerSex) a capital crime in 1533? He used the law to facilitate pillaging Catholic monasteries of their wealth, which is how England's Catholic abbey's became ruins. HowSexGotScrewedUp.com #QueerHistory
DYK early Christians formed #SameSexMarriage based on #SpiritualLove & #PassionateFriendships? Many assumed it to be #sexless. Others called it “sharing the same tent”—the relationship between a guy & his mistress. HowSexGotScrewedUp.com #HistSex #QueerHistory
September 24, 2026 at 3:29 PM
DYK early Christians formed #SameSexMarriage based on #SpiritualLove & #PassionateFriendships? Many assumed it to be #sexless. Others called it “sharing the same tent”—the relationship between a guy & his mistress. HowSexGotScrewedUp.com #HistSex #QueerHistory