Let's Talk About Sex... History! (Receipts #3) (Patreon)

In last week's episode of Let's Talk About Sex History, we discussed Marriage, Female Orgasms, and Revolutions. Here are all the receipts! 

Books

A few of these books will be repeatedly referenced during the course of this webseries!

Intimate Matters: A History of Sexuality in America (John D'Emilio + Estelle B. Freedman)

Documenting Intimate Matters (Thomas A. Foster)

Twentieth Century Sexuality: A History (Angus McLaren)

Sexual Behavior in the Human Female (Alfred Kinsey)

*Digest of Hygiene For Mother and Daughter (1947, M.A. Horn)

*I read this book at the Atlanta National Archives (and have attached pdfs from the cited chapter "Woman's Sexual Duties to Husband), but you can order the full book on amazon here.

Scholarly Articles & Studies

Some of these are available for free, and are linked. The rest can be found on JSTOR.

The Evolving Role of Marriage: 1950-2010 (Shelly Lundberg and Robert A. Pollak)

Lunacy in the 19th Century: Women's Admission to Asylums in United States of America (Katherine Pouba and Ashley Tianen)

Rethinking the History of Female Circumcision and Clitoridectomy: American Medicine and Female Sexuality in the Late Nineteenth Century (Sarah W. Rodriguez)

Nymphomania: The Historical Construction of Female Sexuality (Carol Groneman)

"Kiss Without Shame, For She Desires It:" Sexual Foreplay in American Marital Advice Literature (Peter Laipson)

Women and Hysteria in The History of Mental Health (Cecilia Tasca, Mariangela Rapetti, Mauro Giovanni Carta, and Bianca Fadda)

The Rule of Moderation in Late Nineteenth Century American Sexual Ideology (Anita Clair Fellman and Michel Fellman)

Mainstream Articles

Marriage in America: A Brief History (Elizabeth Garner Masarik) PodcastANDTranscriptAvailable Here

Marriage Rights: A Short History (Tom Head)

"Hysteria" and the Strange History of Vibrators (Michael Castleman M.A.)

Discovering Sex (David Halberstam)

Free Love: Free Love in the 19th Century (Jone Johnson Lewis)

Vintage Magazine Article:

The Sexual Revolution (Kermit Mehlinger, M.D.) Ebony Magazine, 1966