0 DYK #CharlesDickens wrote pamphlets to recruit repentent #SexWorkers to a home he & Baroness Coutts ran? Only 6/10 could read & it didn't work. After closing the home, he tried to reform them by bringing them home for tea & conversation! HowSexGotScrewedUp.com 0 comments · 15h ago · by Jon Knowles #charlesdickens#sexworkers#wmnhist
0 DYK ancient Roman wife had only three children? Her #PaterFamilias let her use #BirthControl, #abortion & exposure—leaving a baby where someone might find, adopt, or enslave it. “Excess” slave or disabled infants faced #infanticide. HowSexGotScrewedUp.com 0 comments · 15h ago · by Jon Knowles #abortion#birthcontrol#histsex
0 DYK #BernardDeClairvaux was the #misogynist #ClosetQueen who accused Pierre #Abélard (#Heloise's boy) of #heresy? In part, because of his preaching on #WomensEquality. In part, because he liked straight sex. HowSexGotScrewedUp.com 2 comments · 1d ago · by Jon Knowles #abélard#bernarddeclairvaux#closetqueen
