Reforming criminal justice requires questioning as promoted by Erasmus and Rabelais in relaying the medieval story of the pregnant nun claiming rape. … Read the post enlightened questioning of medieval pregnant nun claiming rape
Instead of spewing ignorance, bigotry & superstition, rape studies should reject gender bigotry, recognize female perpetrators, and include inmate victims. … Read the post public discussion of rape based on ignorance, bigotry & superstition
The popular legend of Lady Godiva and Peeping Tom illustrates the gender bias that disparages, devalues, and criminalizes men’s sexuality. … Read the post Peeping Tom killed for viewing naked woman riding through town
The goddess Eos, also called Dawn and Aurora, abducted and raped the mortal men Cephalus, Tithonus, and Orion. Women raping men was widely recognized. … Read the post rosy-fingered Dawn (Eos) raping men: the untold story
For understanding domestic violence, ancient Greek myth is more insightful than modern myth. Think about Omphale pummeling Hercules with her slipper. … Read the post Omphale pummeled Hercules: not just ancient Greek myth
In his story of Gyges and Candaules, Herodotus included the Greek saying “When a woman takes off her clothes, she takes off her modesty.” It’s about men. … Read the post Gyges & Candaules: controlling men's sexuality and seduction
Witch-hunt history has tended to naturalize the vastly gender-disproportionate punishment of men. Witches were punished like men in relation to women. … Read the post witch-hunt and gender: when women are executed like men
Malleus Maleficarum, a leading medieval Latin work on witches, provides key insights into gender, witches, and punishment. … Read the post Malleus Maleficarum, women & men witches, and executions
In reading ancient Latin literature, pioneering 19th-century social scientist William Sanger didn’t distinguish between cultural constructions and reality. … Read the post ancient Latin literature in Sanger's 19th-century social science
William W. Sanger’s pioneering social-scientific study of prostitution turned to fiction and blamed men for women becoming prostitutes. … Read the post Sanger blamed men for prostitution: pioneering social science