#MuscularChristianity’s
DYK Victorian men saw “good” women as passive, passionless & helpless? Any who enjoyed #SexPlay were sinners & needed a guy’s forgiveness? This is #MuscularChristianity’s Charles Kingsley’s (d.1875) sketch of himself w/wife as #Magdalene. HowSexGotScrewedUp.com #GenderHistory
October 7, 2026 at 3:20 PM
DYK Victorian men saw “good” women as passive, passionless & helpless? Any who enjoyed #SexPlay were sinners & needed a guy’s forgiveness? This is #MuscularChristianity’s Charles Kingsley’s (d.1875) sketch of himself w/wife as #Magdalene! HowSexGotScrewedUp.com #GenderHistory
July 25, 2026 at 2:27 PM
DYK Victorian men saw “good” women as passive, passionless & helpless? Any who enjoyed #SexPlay were sinners & needed a guy’s forgiveness? This is #MuscularChristianity’s Charles Kingsley’s (d.1875) sketch of himself w/wife as #Magdalene. HowSexGotScrewedUp.com #GenderHistory
April 2, 2026 at 3:56 PM
DYK #MuscularChristianity’s 19thC myths of the fierce & brave cowboy held strong? The #cowboy who kept far from civilized life became a pop-hero in Owen Wister’s 1902 “The Virginian” —300,000 copies by 1904, films in 1929, ’46, & 2015, & on TV from 1962 to ‘71.
December 4, 2025 at 4:02 PM
DYK Victorian men saw “good” women as passive, passionless & helpless? Any who enjoyed #SexPlay were sinners & needed a guy’s forgiveness? This is #MuscularChristianity’s Charles Kingsley’s (d.1875) sketch of himself w/wife as #Magdalene. HowSexGotScrewedUp.com #GenderHistory
December 4, 2025 at 3:43 PM
DYK #Victorian men saw “good” women as passive, passionless & helpless? Any who enjoyed #SexPlay were sinners & needed a guy’s forgiveness? This is #MuscularChristianity’s Charles Kingsley’s (d.1875) sketch of himself w/wife as #Magdalene. HowSexGotScrewedUp.com #GenderHistory
August 2, 2025 at 3:50 PM