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Highlights

  • Abelard castrated
  • Byzantine wife saves husband
  • Amphitryon & Geta duped
  • Chastelaine de Vergi tragedy
  • Aristotle’s advice to Alexander
  • Empress Theodora: woman leader
  • Tristan & Isuet
  • Xanthippe & Socrates
  • New Modern Sexism Scale

love

sexual superheroes in the Perfumed Garden of Sensual Delight

The Perfumed Garden of Sensual Delight’s story of three sexual heroes promotes info on enhancing performance. Sexual heroes are a hard act to follow. … Read the post sexual superheroes in the Perfumed Garden of Sensual Delight

Chinese bridegroom's traditional wedding prayer

In a 7th-century Chinese wedding prayer, the bridegroom asks for the blessing of having slaves. Chinese Christian wedding prayers surely differed greatly. … Read the post Chinese bridegroom's traditional wedding prayer

medieval men protesting devaluation of masculine love

A 12th-century Latin text readily dismissed as misogynistic or antifeminist insightfully shows medieval men’s self-consciousness about masculine love. … Read the post medieval men protesting devaluation of masculine love

Abraham in brothel with Saint Mary the Harlot

Abraham in the Life of Saint Mary the Harlot shows holy manly fearlessness in facing delights of male imagination, free from the prison-house of sin. … Read the post Abraham in brothel with Saint Mary the Harlot

all-powerful caliphs subjected to their slave-girls

In courtly social circumstances, caliphs of mighty ancient Islamic empires did not sexually dominate even their foreign slave-girls. … Read the post all-powerful caliphs subjected to their slave-girls

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