A Curious History of Sex

by Kate Lister

  268 D’Alton, C., ‘A watercolour of a man suffering from psoriasis and possibly syphilis’ (London: Wellcome Collection, 1866 CC BY).

  270 ‘Re-usable condom in original’ (London: Science Museum / Science & Society Picture Library).

  272 Grose, Francis, Guide to Health, Beauty, Riches, and Honour (London: S. Hooper, 1785).

  275 ‘“Paragon” Re-usable condom in original’ (London: Science Museum / Science & Society Picture Library).

  276 She May Look Clean (Bethesda: National Library of Medicine, 1940).

  279 Late Nineteenth-Century Japanese Ukiyo-e Woodblock Print (London: Wellcome Collection CC BY).

  280 ‘French periodical pills’, Boston Daily Times, 6 January 1845 (Washington: Library of Congress).

  281 ‘Savin Juniper’, botanical illustration, W. M. Woodville, Medical Botany, vol. 2 (London: Wellcome Collection CC BY).

  283 ‘Female Abortionist’, in National Police Gazette, 13 March 1847, p. 1.

  286 ‘Hooked instrument once used for removing an aborted foetus’ (London: Wellcome Collection CC BY).

  288 ‘Foundling hospital tokens’ © The Foundling Museum (London: Foundling Museum).

  289 ‘This is a token’ © The Foundling Museum (London: Foundling Museum).

  291 ‘Farr’s Patent Ladies’ Menstrual Receptacle’, American Druggist, January, 1884.

  292 Páez Houses and Bridge, image showing menstrual hut (Washington: Smithsonian, 1946).

  296 Berengario da Carpi, Jacopo, Isagoge Breves Prelucide Ac Uberime In Anatomiam Humani Corporis. A Communi Medicorum Academia Usitatam originally published by Benedictus Hector, 1522 (Wellcome Collection CC BY).

  297 ‘Gynaecological acu-moxa locations for treating irregular menstruation’ (London: Wellcome Collection, 1591, CC BY).

  299 Sears Catalogue, 1936 (Harry Finley, Museum of Menstruation).

  300 Maygrier, J.P., ‘Vaginal examination in vertical position’, in Nouvelles Démonstrations D’accouchemens/Avec Des Planches En Taille-Douce, Accompagnées D’un Texte Raisonné Propre À En Faciliter L’explication (Paris: Béchet, 1822), plate XXIX. (London: Wellcome Collection CC BY).

  303 Kotex advert, 1920 (Wikicommons).

  308 Montano, A.A., ‘Image of a large native missionary family’ (Wikicommons, 1878).

  314 Long, Edwin, The Babylonian Marriage Market (London: Royal Holloway College, 1875). Chronicle / Alamy Stock Photo.

  315 Tissot, James, The Harlot of Jericho and the Two Spies (New York: The Jewish Museum, 1896).

  316 ‘Two dancing girls’ (photograph by K.L. Brajbasi & Co., Patna, India, 1910).

  320 ‘Tart cards’ (London: Wellcome Collection, c.1995).

  321 ‘Tart cards in telephone box’ (Wikicommons).

  322 Harris’s List of Covent-Garden Ladies: or, Man of pleasure’s kalendar (London: British Museum, 1733).

  324 Hogarth, William, A Harlot’s Progress, Norton Simon Art Foundation, 1732 (London: Wellcome Collection CC BY).

  327 Blue Book, Tenderloin 400 (New Orleans: The Historic New Orleans Collection, 1969.19.4).

  329 Image by E. J. Bellocq © Lee Friedlander, courtesy Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco.

  330 Miss Fernande, Jean Agélou (c.1910) (Wikicommons).

  332 Gillman & Co., Oscar Wilde and Lord Alfred Douglas (photograph, date unknown, 1882–1910, Wikicommons).

  335 Villain, François, Ann Zingha, Queen of Matamba (New York: New York Public Library, 1800).

  337 Greek ceramic (Paris: Louvre Museum, 480 BC).

  344 ‘The West End Scandals, some Further Sketches’, Illustrated Police News, 4 December 1889. Newspaper image © The British Library Board. All rights reserved. With thanks to The British Newspaper Archive (www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk).

  351 ‘Sargent Adams and the Law of Kissing’, The Pilot, 1837.

  Index

  Abbot, George, (i)

  Aborne, Elizabeth, (i)

  abortion, (i)

  Abu Hurayra, (i)

  actirasty, (i)

  Acton, William, (i)

  Adams, Jane, (i)

  Adams, Sargent, (i)

  Adélie penguins, (i)n

  adultery, (i), (ii)

  Aelian, (i)

  Aeschines, (i)

  Æthelberht, King of Kent, (i)

  Aëtius of Amida, (i)

  agalmatophilia, (i)

  Agélou, Jean, (i)

  Aggrawal, Anil, (i)

  Agnes of Merania, (i)

  Aguilera, Christina, (i)

  AIDS, (i), (ii)

  Albert Victor, Prince, (i)

  Albucasis, (i)

  Allan, James McGrigor, (i)

  Althaus, Dr, (i)

  alum, (i), (ii)

  Al-Zahrawi, (i)

  ambergris, (i)

  ‘Amor Veneris’, (i)

  Amsterdam sex workers protest, (i)

  anaphrodisiacs, (i)

  Andrews, Lorrin, (i)

  Ann-Margaret, (i)

  Anthony, Susan B., (i)

  antidepressants, (i)

  Antonius Liberalis, (i)

  aphrodisiacs, (i)

  see also anaphrodisiacs

  Aphrodite, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv)

  Aphrodite of Knidos, (i)

  Apollo’s Medley, (i)

  aqueducts, (i)

  Arabic medical texts, (i)

  Aretaeus, (i)

  Aretino, Pietro, (i)

  Aristophanes, (i), (ii)

  Aristotle, (i)n, (ii), (iii), (iv)

  Arnold of Villanova, (i)

  Arthasastra of Kautilya, (i)

  Arthur, King, (i)

  Arthur, Elizabeth, (i)

  Arunta people, (i)

  Ash, Russell, (i)

  Astins, Elizabeth Eldred, (i)

  Astruc, John, (i)

  Athenaeus of Naucratis, (i)

  Aubrey, John, (i), (ii)

  Australian Aborigines, (i)

  Avicenna, (i)

  Aztecs, (i)

  B, Madame, (i)

  Baartman, Sara, (i), (ii), (iii)

  baboons, (i)

  Babylonians, (i)

  Baden-Powell, Robert, (i)

  Bailey, William, (i)

  ballads and songs, bawdy, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv)

  banter, (i), (ii)

  Barbie dolls, (i)

  Barclay, Andrew Whyte, (i)

  Barker, Isabel, (i)

  Barrett, Martha, (i)

  Barrow, Sir John, (i)

  Bartholin, Thomas, (i)

  bathing and washing, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv)

  Beaney, James George, (i)

  Beard, Mary, (i)

  Beare, Eleanor, (i)

  Beat poets, (i)

  Beaver, Abraham, (i)

  Beck, J. R., (i)

  bees, (i)

  Begasse, Ken, Jr, (i)

  behavioural immune system, (i)

  Belfort, Grace, (i)

  Bellocq, E. J., (i)

  Benedictine monks, (i)

  Benjamin, Harry, (i)

  Berry, Mary, (i)

  Beuthien, Reinhard, (i)

  ‘bicycle face’, (i)

  bicycles, (i)

  Bienville, M. D. T. de, (i)

  Bild Lilli, (i)

  black men’s genitals, (i)

  black women, sexualisation of, (i)

  Blagge, Anne, (i)

  Blanchard phallus, (i)

  Blank, Hanne, (i)

  blasphemy, (i)

  Bliss, W. W., (i)

  Bloch, Iwan, (i), (ii), (iii)

  Block, A. J., (i)

  Blondell, Gloria, (i)

  ‘Blue Books’, (i), (ii)

  Blum, Victor, (i)

  Blundell, Dr, (i)

  Boccaccio, Giovanni, (i)

  Boleyn, Anne, (i)

  Bonaparte, Princess Marie, (i)

  Book of Kings, (i)

  Book of Leviticus, (i)

  Book of Proverbs, (i)

  Book of Women’s Love, (i), (ii)

  Boots the Chemists, (i)r />
  Boswell, James, (i), (ii)

  Botox injections, (i)

  Botticelli, Sandro, (i)

  bowdlerisation, (i)

  Boy Scouts, (i)

  Brahideswara temple, (i)

  Brandt, Thure, (i)

  bread, (i)

  Breckenridge, Mary, (i)

  Briggs, Keith, (i)

  Brinkley, John Richard, (i)

  Britby, John, (i)

  British Board of Film Classification, (i)

  Brody, Stuart, (i)

  Brome, Richard, (i)

  brothels

  and bathhouses, (i)

  ‘brothel babies’, (i)

  Isabel Barker’s, (i)

  Mary Wilson’s, (i)

  molly houses, (i), (ii)

  oysters served in, (i)

  Pygmalionists and, (i)

  sex doll, (i)

  Southwark, (i), (ii)

  Brown, Isaac Baker, (i), (ii)

  Brown, Thomas, (i)

  Brown-Séquard, Charles-Édouard, (i)

  Buchan, William, (i)

  Büchner, Georg, (i)

  Buggery Act (1533), (i)

  Burchard, Bishop of Worms, (i), (ii), (iii)

  Burton, Robert, (i)

  Caldwell, Christina, (i)

  Cambridge University, admits women, (i)

  Campegius, Johannes Bruerinus, (i)

  camphor, (i)

  Caprotti, Gian Giacomo, (i)

  capuchin monkeys, (i)

  Carlile, Richard, (i)

  Carnal Knowledge, (i)

  Casanova, Giacomo, (i), (ii), (iii)

  Cashmore, Ellis, (i)

  castor, (i)

  castration, (i), (ii), (iii)

  chemical, (i), (ii)

  Catherine of Aragon, (i)

  celibacy, priestly, (i)

  cervical cancer, (i)

  Cesars, Hendrik, (i)

  Chandler, Daniel, (i)

  Charles II, King, (i)

  Charpy, Adrian, (i)

  Chartier, Alain, (i)

  chastity belts, (i)

  Chaucer, Geoffrey, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi)

  Chen, Keith, (i)

  Chen Ziming, (i)

  Chhaupadi tradition, (i)

  Chicago, Judy, (i)

  Childs, William, (i)

  Chinese medicine, (i)

  chlamydia, (i), (ii)

  Chorier, Nicolas, (i)

  Christie, Linford, (i)

  Cicero, (i)

  circumcision, (i), (ii)

  civet, (i)

  Clap, ‘Mother’ Margaret, (i)

  Clarke, Sir Edward, (i)

  Classic of Su Nu, The, (i)

  Clawecunte, Godwin, (i)

  Cleland, John, see Fanny Hill

  Clevecunt, Robert, (i)

  ‘Cleveland Street Scandal’, (i), (ii)

  Clinton, Hillary, (i)

  clitoris, (i)

  clitoral hood reduction, (i)

  and eighteenth-century pornography, (i)

  hypertrophied, (i), (ii), (iii)

  and lesbianism, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v)

  and masturbation, (i), (ii), (iii)

  sex workers and, (i)

  structure, (i)

  and witchcraft, (i)

  the word, (i), (ii)

  see also female genital mutilation (FGM)

  Clodius Albinus, Emperor, (i)

  cocklebread, (i), (ii)

  Code of Hammurabi, (i)

  coffee, (i)

  coitus interruptus, (i), (ii)

  Coleman, Kit, (i)

  Colombo, Realdo, (i)

  Columbus, Christopher, (i), (ii)n

  Comstock Laws, (i)

  condoms, (i), (ii), (iii)

  Confessionale, (i)

  conquistadors, (i)

  contraception, (i), (ii), (iii)

  see also abortion; condoms

  contraceptive pill, (i), (ii), (iii)

  cooling the body, (i), (ii)

  Cooper, Lucy, (i)

  Coote, Rosa, (i)

  Coppinger, Ruth, (i)

  copulins, (i)

  Coram, Thomas, (i)

  cornflakes, (i), (ii)

  corsets, (i)

  corticosteroids, (i)

  Courtney, Edward, (i)

  Cox, Thomas, (i)

  Cranny, John Joseph, (i)

  Criminal Justice and Police Act (2001), (i)

  Crisp, Quentin, (i)

  Cromwell, Oliver, (i)

  Crooke, Helkiah, (i)

  Cruikshank, William, (i)

  cuckoldry, (i)

  Cullender, Rose, (i)

  Culpeper, Nicholas

  Complete Herbal, (i)

  Physical Directory, (i)

  cunnilingus, (i), (ii), (iii)

  Cunt, Fanny, and family, (i)

  ‘cunt’ (the word), (i), (ii)

  ‘Cunt art’ movement, (i)

  Cuntles, Gunoka, (i)

  Curll, Edmund, (i)

  Cuvier, Georges-Frédéric, (i)

  cyprine, (i)

  dances, classical Indian, (i)

  Daniel, Thomas, (i)

  Dante, (i)

  Dapper, Olfert, (i)

  Davenport, John, (i), (ii), (iii)

  David and Jonathan, (i)

  de Fonte, Walter, (i)

  De Graaf, Regnier, (i)

  De Secretis Mulierum, (i)

  de Worde, Wynkyn, (i)

  Decretum, (i), (ii)

  Delicado, Francisco, (i)

  Delights for Ladies, (i)

  Demeter, (i)

  Derrick, Sam, (i)

  devadasi tradition, (i)

  ‘Devereaux, Captain Charles’, (i)

  Devi, Phulan, (i)

  Dewees, William Potts, (i)

  Diagnosis, Pathology and Treatment of Diseases of Women, The, (i)

  Dickens, Charles, (i)

  Dickinson, Robert, (i)

  ‘dildo bikes’, (i)

  dildos, (i), (ii)

  disgust, (i), (ii)

  Disney, Walt, (i)

  divorce and annulment, (i)

  Donnersmarck, Count Henckel von, (i)

  Douglas, Lord Alfred, (i), (ii)

  Douglas, James, (i)

  Drais, Baron Karl von, (i)

  Dudley Castle, (i)n

  Dulaure, Jacques-Antoine, (i)

  Dunglison, Robley, (i)

  Dunlop, William, (i), (ii)

  Dunton, John, (i)

  Dyak people, (i)

  Ebers Papyrus, (i)

  ectopic pregnancy, (i)

  Edward III, King, (i)

  Eguisier, Maurice, (i)

  Elizabeth I, Queen, (i), (ii)

  Ellenborough, Lord, (i)

  Ellerton, Thomas, (i)

  Ellis, Havelock, (i), (ii)

  Elyot, Thomas, (i)

  endorphins, (i)

  Ensler, Eva, see Vagina Monologues, The

  erectile dysfunction, see impotence

  Essence Magazine, (i)

  exercise, increases sex drive, (i)

  Exeter Book riddles, (i)

  Exorcist, The, (i)

  Falcucci, Niccolo, (i)

  Falloppio, Gabriele, (i), (ii), (iii)

  Fane, Sir Francis, (i)

  Fanny Hill (Cleland), (i), (ii), (iii), (iv)

  fasting, (i)

  female genital mutilation (FGM), (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi)

  ‘feminine hygiene’, (i)

  feminism

  and ‘cunt’, (i)

  and ‘me too’, (i)

  and pubic hair, (i)

  and sexual slang, (i)

  Ferguson, Anthony, (i)

  Fernande, Miss, (i)

  Fiaux, Louis, (i)

  Fight Online Sex Trafficking Act (FOSTA), (i)

  Fillecunt, John, (i)

  First Lateran Council, (i)

  First Nations, (i)

  First World War, (i), (ii)

  fish, inserted into vagina, (i)

  Fisher, Professor George, (i)

  Fitz
roy, Henry James, (i)

  Florio, John, (i)

  Flowers, Margaret, (i)

  Foldes, Pierre, and Odile Buisson, (i)

  follicle-stimulating hormone (FSH), (i)

  Foote, Edward, (i)

  Freud, Sigmund, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi), (vii)

  frigidity, in women, (i)

  Froch, Carl, (i)

  Galen, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v)

  García Márquez, Gabriel, (i)

  Gardner, Ann, (i), (ii)

  George, Prince, of Greece and Denmark, (i)

  Gerald of Wales, (i)

  Gerard of Cremona, (i)

  Gerber, Robin, (i)

  Gilgamesh, (i)

  Ginsberg, Allen, (i)

  Giovanni da Vigo, (i)

  gland face creams, (i)

  Glendering, Judith, (i)

  goat glands, (i)

  Goldberg, Jeremy, (i)

  Golden, Bertha, (i)

  gonorrhoea, (i), (ii), (iii)

  Goodyear, Charles, (i)

  Gould, Gerald, (i)

  Goya, Francisco, (i)

  Gräfenberg spot (G-spot), (i), (ii)

  Graham, Rev. Sylvester, (i)

  Granville, Joseph Mortimer, (i)

  Gratian, (i)n

  Gray, Euphemia, (i)

  Green, Jonathon, (i)

  Gregory II, Pope, (i)n

  Griffin, William, (i)

  Gropecuntlanes, (i)

  Grose, Francis, (i), (ii), (iii)

  Grotte des Combarrelles, (i)n

  Guernsey, Henry Newell, (i)

  Guy de Chauliac, (i)

  Gwerful Mechain, (i)

  Haas, Earle, (i)

  Haire, Norman, (i)

  Halban, Josef, (i)

  Hall, John, (i)

  Hall, Radclyffe, (i)

  Halliwell, William, (i)

  Hammond, Charles, (i)

  Hammond, Natalie, and Sarah Kingston, (i)

  Handler, Ruth, (i)

  Hanks, Postal Constable Luke, (i)

  Harper’s Magazine, (i)

  Harrard, Elizabeth, (i)

  Harris’s List of Covent Garden Ladies, (i), (ii), (iii), (iv)

  Harvey, Lady, (i)

  Hawaiians, (i), (ii)

  Hayes, Charlotte, (i), (ii)

  Head, Richard, (i)

  Healey, Trebor, (i)

  Heiber, Beryl, (i)

  Henry the Navigator, Prince, (i)

  Henry VIII, King, (i)

  Herodotus, (i)

  herpes, (i), (ii)

  Hesiod, (i)

  Hewetson, Thomas, (i)

  Heyward, Robert, (i)

  Hildegard of Bingen, (i)

  Hincmar, Archbishop of Rheims, (i)

  Hindu Social Reform Association, (i)

  Hippocrates, (i)n, (ii), (iii), (iv), (v)

  Hitchcock, Tim, (i)

  Hitschmann, Eduard, and Edmund Bergler, (i)

  HIV-1, (i)

  Hoffmann, E. T. A., (i)

  Hollingworth, Leta Stetter, (i)

  homosexuality, laws against, (i)