#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
July 13, 2025 at 4:15 PM
#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
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
July 13, 2025 at 4:15 PM
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
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
September 30, 2025 at 3:29 PM
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
The title was “A Memorandum Respecting New York as a Field for Moral & Christian Effort among Young Men: Its Present Neglected Conditions; & The Fitness of the New York Young Men’s Christian Association as a Principal Agency for Its Due Cultivation” #AnthonyComstock #SocialPurity
August 19, 2026 at 4:25 PM
The title was “A Memorandum Respecting New York as a Field for Moral & Christian Effort among Young Men: Its Present Neglected Conditions; & The Fitness of the New York Young Men’s Christian Association as a Principal Agency for Its Due Cultivation” #AnthonyComstock #SocialPurity
DYK in 1883, the YMCA created a White Cross Army to teach about sex w/special focus on the dangers of #SoloSex? Like the Y, SocialPurity feminists wanted to prohibit solo sex. They expected men to limit sex to fulfill only the procreative needs of the family.
June 6, 2026 at 3:45 PM
DYK in 1883, the YMCA created a White Cross Army to teach about sex w/special focus on the dangers of #SoloSex? Like the Y, SocialPurity feminists wanted to prohibit solo sex. They expected men to limit sex to fulfill only the procreative needs of the family.