From MSMBC:
Sex and booze figured in Egyptian rites
BALTIMORE - Today, it sounds like a spring-break splurge on the order of “Girls Gone Wild”: Drink huge quantities of beer, get wasted, indulge in gratuitous sex and pass out — then wake up the next morning with the music blaring and your friends praying that everything will turn out all right.
But back in 1470 B.C., this was the agenda for one of ancient Egypt’s most raucous rituals, the “festival of drunkenness,” which celebrated nothing less than the salvation of humanity. Archaeologists say they have found evidence amid the ruins of a temple in Luxor that the annual rite featured sex, drugs and the ancient equivalent of rock ‘n’ roll.
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Eighty six years ago today the 19th Amendment to the US Constitution was ratified. This gave women the right to vote. Being female I want to honor the women that fought long and hard to give me this right. So I vote. I encourage you to do so as well. You can register to vote by clicking here.
I am including a list of links if you’d like to learn more.
Wikipedia’s Nineteenth Amendment
Actual text of the Amendment
Women’s Suffrage Movement
Alice Paul , suffragist
Hunger strikes of the imprisoned suffragettes
Posted by Vixen as Sex History, News at 10:52 PM CDT
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From The Stonewall Riot and Its Aftermath:
On Friday evening, June 27, 1969, the New York City tactical police force raided a popular Greenwich Village gay bar, the Stonewall Inn. Raids were not unusual in 1969; in fact, they were conducted regularly without much resistance. However, that night the street erupted into violent protest as the crowds in the bar fought back. The backlash and several nights of protest that followed have come to be known as the Stonewall Riots.
Prior to that summer there was little public expression of the lives and experiences of gays and lesbians. The Stonewall Riots marked the beginning of the gay liberation movement that has transformed the oppression of gays and lesbians into calls for pride and action. In the past twenty-five years we have all been witness to an astonishing flowering of gay culture that has changed this country and beyond, forever.
Wikipedia has a Stonewall entry as well if you’d like to read more. Though Wiki’s entry said the Stonewall was the 28th of July, the press clippings from the earlier link said the 27th.
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From Ananova:
World’s oldest condom
The oldest surviving condom in the world has gone on display in an Austrian museum.
The reusable condom dates back to 1640 and is completely intact, as is its orginal users’ manual, written in Latin.
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From the History Channel:
“While some believe that Valentine’s Day is celebrated in the middle of February to commemorate the anniversary of Valentine’s death or burial — which probably occurred around 270 A.D — others claim that the Christian church may have decided to celebrate Valentine’s feast day in the middle of February in an effort to ‘christianize’ celebrations of the pagan Lupercalia festival.”
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I love sex in history articles. This story is very interesting. From UCLA International Institute:
Changing Times for Japanese Sex Workers
In medieval Japan, sexual entertainers and their customers enjoyed great freedoms until a growing orthodoxy stifled their trade, Janet Goodwin tells a UCLA audience.
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From Discovery News:
Divers exploring a river near a former Roman Empire fort and settlement in Britain have found a piece of pottery that depicts the backside of a rather buff gladiator wielding a whip and wearing nothing but a G-string, according to British researchers.
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Scientists Find Fossils in Sexual Union
LUCKNOW, India (AP) — This was no one-night stand. Scientists in India say they have discovered two fossils fused together in sexual union for 65 million years.
The findings were published in the October edition of the Indian journal “Current Science,” which said it was the first time that sexual copulation had been discovered in a fossil state, according to the Press Trust of India news agency.
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From the Sun Sentinel:
The 70-year-old grandmother had collected fine antiques for decades. And when her son requested that she select a few naughtier baubles for his apartment, Wilzig responded by purchasing a Japanese pillow book or shunga — 25 brilliantly colored pictures depicting the more carnal of delights. “It was historically given to couples on their wedding night,” explains Wilzig. “It contains illustrations of various positions so they would know how to please each other.”
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I’ve been a fan of Annie Sprinkle for several years now. By chance I stumbled across a thesis written about her the other day while doing research of my own. (I was researching hormones for a transgendered client.)
While I thought I was familiar with most of her work Sheila Thomas’ study really opened my eyes to her whole career.
Speaking the Unspeakable: Annie Sprinkle’s “Prostitute Performances” A Thesis by Sheila Marie Thomas is a well documented study. It’s an excellent introduction to those unfamiliar with her; for fans, it’s more of a collective, delving into detail about familiar performances.
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