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Jon Knowles @howsexgotscrewedup.bsky.social · 15h

Even in the guest halls of her own home, she had to keep her hair covered w/a wimple. Only a #SexWorker exposed her hair. Interesting that #TrumpChristians want to deny the #hajib to women when their Christian ancestors invented it! HowSexGotScrewedUp.com #doctrine

Jon Knowles @howsexgotscrewedup.bsky.social · 15h

DYK medieval #Christian custom inspired the #Muslim #hajib? A woman’s hair was a major turn-on for Christians. She was to keep it long as a sign of her submissiveness to men. She was to keep it clean & hidden under a veil in public to keep from arousing men.

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Jon Knowles @howsexgotscrewedup.bsky.social · 15h

Today’s #TrumpChristians are stamping out #ReproductiveHealth information leaving women w/only illegal & dangerous choices.
Ghosts of #GenderHistory still haunt. #SCOTUSisTooCatholic

Jon Knowles @howsexgotscrewedup.bsky.social · 15h

They read about them in newspaper ads, postal circulars, & pharmacy flyers. They cost from $10 to $100. There were many patents for devices that a woman could use to inject these solutions into her uterus to help flush out the fetus. HowSexGotScrewedUp.com #WmnHist

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Jon Knowles @howsexgotscrewedup.bsky.social · 15h

DYK Frederick Hollick’s 1849, “Diseases of Women” advised them to use Dr. Suton’s electric suction device to start their periods—induce #abortion? By the ‘60s, women could find more than 25 different compounds that could cause abortion.
#LegalAbortion

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Jon Knowles @howsexgotscrewedup.bsky.social · 15h

DYK #Pericles(d.429BCE) made Citizenship Laws requiring citizen men to marry & have kids at 30? Otherwise they'd lose their citizenship & property. They could keep male #lovers& #SexWorkers, but HAD to marry. So much for #ReproductiveInstinct! Blog8 HowSexGotScrewedUp.com

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Jon Knowles @howsexgotscrewedup.bsky.social · 15h

DYK Pope #GregoryXIII got #HenriIII to marry ‘cause too much sex w/different women would make him #effeminate? Didn’t Gregory know Henri was a #CrossDresser who spent his time w/his “mignons” & was assassinated for being #queer? HowSexGotScrewedUp.com #histsex #QueerHistory

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Jon Knowles @howsexgotscrewedup.bsky.social · 15h

into same-sex sex when one would prefer a woman
5. rāgavat—love that is passionate & inspired by sexual attraction
6. vyahitarāga—love that is a substitute for real love, during which one has fantasies of one’s true love
Blog5 HowSexGotScrewedUp.com #QueerHistory #Zoophilia

Jon Knowles @howsexgotscrewedup.bsky.social · 15h

2. kalarata—love that is demeaning, only to satisfy sexual instinct w/corrupt or gross partners, or w/animals
3. kritimarāga—love that is pretended & has no real feeling
4. potārata—love that is disinterested & w/o feeling, such as having sex w/servants or washer women or w/a man

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Jon Knowles @howsexgotscrewedup.bsky.social · 15h

DYK according to the ancient Hindu “#KamaSutra” all kinds of #SexPlay were assigned to 6 kinds of love to be enjoyed under different circumstances? The 6 kinds of love were:
1. āhāryarāga—love out of habit: affection that grows during cohabitation

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Jon Knowles @howsexgotscrewedup.bsky.social · 15h

2,000 yrs of ruining people's sex lives should disallow tax exemptions to Christian churches. #Jesus didn't say a word about #BirthControl, #abortion, #QueerSex, #SoloSex or #zoophilia. Time to protect women & sexual minorities from #KKKristianity.
HowSexGotScrewedUp.com

Jon Knowles @howsexgotscrewedup.bsky.social · 15h

In 1992, John Paul II admitted Galileo was correct w/o apology for Papal condemnation. But #DangerousKKKristianDoctrines about reproductive health, gender, #sexuality & #SexualOrientation still defy scientific truth. #GayRights #RoeVWade #TransgenderHealthCare #zoophilia

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Jon Knowles @howsexgotscrewedup.bsky.social · 15h

DYK #PopeInnocentXII imprisoned #Gallileo for life for heresy in 1633? He had observed the earth revolved around the sun. The #Inquisition’s Roberto Bellarmino wrote that he was “as erroneous as to claim that Jesus was not born of a virgin.” HowSexGotScrewedUp.com #doctrine

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Jon Knowles @howsexgotscrewedup.bsky.social · 15h

DYK the “Truman Doctrine” included #HarryTruman's 1947's Ex. Order 9835? It was a loyalty program that targeted communists & #queers & launched a pandemic of #homophobia in U.S. that took away human rights of #LGBTQ people. HowSexGotScrewedUp.com #QueerHistory

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Jon Knowles @howsexgotscrewedup.bsky.social · 15h

From his Council at Nicea to now, the Vatican has conspired against our gender & sexual rights. Five Catholics on SCOTUS recently revoked U.S. women’s rights to abortion & now threaten rights to #BirthControl, #GayMarriage, & #GayRights. It’s simple: #SCOTUSisTooCatholic

Jon Knowles @howsexgotscrewedup.bsky.social · 15h

DYK #EmperorConstantine claimed a sun halo inspired him to become Christian? In 325, he empowered the Catholic church to seize the property, including homes, of any non-Catholic who refused to convert & have only coitus in marriage for sex! HowSexGotScrewedUp.com

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Jon Knowles @howsexgotscrewedup.bsky.social · 15h

DYK “How Sex Got Screwed Up” is now available as an eBook?
To learn #GenderHistory & #HistSex of 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

Jon Knowles @howsexgotscrewedup.bsky.social · 15h

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

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Jon Knowles @howsexgotscrewedup.bsky.social · 1d

DYK only a few professional outliers supported #SoloSex in early 20thC? Joseph Collins’ 1926 “The Doctor Looks at Love & Life” called for less repression, acceptance of solo sex as natural & healthy, & rejection of #DangerousChurchDoctrine. HowSexGotScrewedUp.com #bators

Jon Knowles @howsexgotscrewedup.bsky.social · 1d

“The advertiser, feeling the importance of this subject, & estimating the vast benefit resulting to 1,000s by the adoption of means prescribed by her, has opened an office, where married females can obtain the desired information.” HowSexGotScrewedUp.com #WmnHist

Jon Knowles @howsexgotscrewedup.bsky.social · 1d

“of those who give them birth would dictate?… Is it moral for parents to increase their families, regardless of consequences to themselves, or the well being of their offspring, when a simple, easy, healthy, & certain remedy is within our control?

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Jon Knowles @howsexgotscrewedup.bsky.social · 1d

DYK Caroline Ann Trow, aka #MadameRestell, (d.1878) provided #BirthControl & #abortion in NYC more than 40 yrs? Her first ad ran in the 1839 “New York Sun”:
“TO MARRIED WOMEN.— Is it not but too well known that the families of the married often increase beyond what the happiness

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Jon Knowles @howsexgotscrewedup.bsky.social · 1d

The dose of ergot for abortion was very close to the lethal dose! Enslaved women used ergot & cotton root, which Northern women began to use after the Civil War. They also got recipes from Native American healers & midwives. HowSexGotScrewedUp.com #GenderHistory

Jon Knowles @howsexgotscrewedup.bsky.social · 1d

DYK 19thC docs’ prescriptions for #abortion were often lethal? Thomas Ewell (d.1826) only advised aloes, horseback riding, hot sitz baths, or jumping after very hot douches of brandy, brine, vinegar, & wine. But others advised using the fungus ergot, oil of rue, & oil of tansy.

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