© Lesley Hall and list contributors
Date: Sun, 01 Aug 1999 13:59:05 +1000
From: Hera Cook <hera.cook@history.usyd.edu.au>
Subject: [Fwd: [Fwd: Maines' Martyrdom and Vibratory Censorship]]
Hi,
I think lesley's comments about physiotherapists are probably spot on. Here
are some more
thoughts I had - unfortunately I don't have the book to hand and these more
specific
questions would be better being checked against the actual text -
Carol Thomas comments on 'Maine's evident scholarship'. I think her use of
sources raises useful questions for historians of sexual behaviours.
Ultimately it was not clear to me what claims Maine was making about the
prevalance of this practice. She appeared to be claiming that this behaviour was
relatively frequent, based primarily upon the level of advertising of the
machines. Is this a valid basis for such claims?
Maine shifts from analysis of texts - discourse - at an international level to
specific material culture. These different types of evidence provide varying
levels and types of proof - indeed they bear different relationships to the
notion of proof.
It is proved to the reader that the objects, vibrators, existed and were
advertised. The proof of the behaviour, that is that these machines were used as
Maine claims, is from other sources but she doesn't distinguish between the nature
of her proofs.
This issue is absolutely central to the credibility of the book as far as I am
concerned. Maine appears to claim that use of vibrators by doctors to give
hysterical middle-class women clitoral orgasms was common practice in the late
19th and early 20th century. She failed to convince me that this was correct, but
she
did convince me that some - a few doctors - did this. So, if that is all she is
claiming
then that is fine and it is an interesting small addition to the history of 19th
century sexuality.
Next point, Maine writes about hysteria but in many of the arenas/sites she
describes the
patients often would not have been seriously disturbed if at all.
Middle class women were reluctant to allow doctors to examine them when they were
pregnant - I believe that this applied to removing clothes and not just to
internal examinations - however I have done very little work on the 19th century
and perhaps
someone else might like to comment on this. If this is correct would women who
were not seriously disturbed have been likely to agree to genital contact in
Maine's circumstances?
On this note, unless this is acknowledged to be the practice of a tiny radical
minority of doctors - my belief - then I would disregard Freud's experience as he
was hardly typical of his era in his approach to sex....
Last point, hands up all those women who think vibrators and orgasms go together
like a horse and carriage? This is the great unexamined assumption of Maine's book.
Do vibrators provide women with orgasms in the clockwork fashion assumed?
All the best,
Hera
Lesley Hall wrote:
> Histsex:For historians of sexuality - http://homepages.primex.co.uk/~lesleyah
>> Damn! I've been away for most of this, in which I'm extremely interested
> since I've been asked several times to comment on Maines's work (or at
> least, the media representations of same) and have only just got hold of the
> book itself to read (though I've not yet done so). I concur that it sounds
> to be generalising from a tiny and probably fringe phenomenon (do the words
> Isaac Baker Brown raise a resonant echo???), and (as far as I can tell)
> ignores the rise of what in the UK we call physiotherapy, which became an
> organised profession in the 1890s as the Chartered Society of Medical
> Masseuses following the great Massage Parlour Scandal (clandestine brothels
> pretending to be therapeutic, plus ca change), initially told in the columns
> of the British Medical Journal. This indicates that a) if doctors
> recommended hands-on physical treatment they were delegating it to trained
> masseuses/masseurs, who were anxious to indicate their respectability and b)
> even non-executive relief type massage was regarded with not a little
> dubeity. Plus, c) by the early C20th physios were using a wide variety of
> electrically driven devices, going by ads in their journal.
> So there may be a whole other story about medicine and touch and
> electrical devices going on which is missing from Maines' book.
> The 'censorship' line does sound a little dubious (was the contentious
> nature of her research the whole story?) even if it does fit into Brit
> perceptions of US institutions.
> I'll try and post further when I've read the book, but I have GOT to
> finish vol one of Trumbach's magnum opus on sex and gender in C18th London
> for a review first.
> Lesley
> Lesley Hall
> lesleyah@primex.co.uk
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Kazetnik@aol.com <Kazetnik@aol.com>
> To: histsex@listbot.com <histsex@listbot.com>
> Date: 27 July 1999 12:45
> Subject: Maines' Martyrdom
>> >Histsex:For historians of sexuality -
> http://homepages.primex.co.uk/~lesleyah
> >> >I am sorry for Maines that she lost her teaching position because of her
> >research, but my guess is such consequences are rare for those of us
> working
> >in this field. I do indeed find the assertions of her work dubious (though
> >not necessarily incredible since I can still be surprised by some of the
> >'oddities' of belief and practice in the 19th century), but it is
> interesting
> >that her work is seen as frivolous. I wonder why that should be? Are
> >vibrators funny per se? Or only 19th century ones?
> >> >Chris White
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From: Kazetnik@aol.com
Date: Sun, 1 Aug 1999 05:18:36 EDT
Subject: Gynaecological exams & orgasms
Hi
To pursue Hera Cook's point about middle-class women's reluctance to be
examined by doctors, Havelock Ellis provides a slightly peculiar insight
based on his own clinical practice with working-class women in 'The Evolution
of Modesty':
'Long ago, when a hospital student on midwifery duty in London slums, I had
occasion to observe that among the women of the poor, and more especially in
those that had lost the first bloom of youth, modesty consisted chiefly in
the fear of being disgusting....As soon as the woman realized that I found
nothing disgusting in whatever was proper and necessary to be done under the
circumstances, it almost invariably happened that every sign of modesty at
once disappeared.'
He seems to regard working class women's modesty as superficial, easily
discarded, and by implication, middle class women's modesty a much more
developed element of their identities, evidently playing on notions of
greater or lesser 'civilization'. It is less clear what he means by
'disgusting', but there is possibly some shadow of the sense of the vagina
being an 'unhealed wound' that must not be displayed, in which case it seems
unlikely that women would have joyfully allowed genital contact of an
explicitly sexual nature, as opposed to one reminiscent of sexual contact.
'Hands up all those women who think vibrators and orgasms go together like a
horse and carriage.' <hand firmly lowered> Such a bizarre notion, a conveyor
belt idea of turning out a whole series of identical products. Maine seems
not to have thought about this *at all*, yet surely it would be fundamental
to her cultural analysis to think through the competing meanings of
'pleasure' mechanically applied and DIY pleasure. Do we really think our
predecessors were so stupid and/or literal minded that because masturbation
was taboo, they would not have done it? One of the principal assumptions of
pornographic material from the period is that women were (a) in constant need
of sexual pleasure and (b) very capable of providing their own once
introduced to the concept. Fantasy obviously, but some story about female
sexual pleasure in the 'real' is being narrated here.
Regards
Chris White
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From: "Lesley Hall" <lesleyah@primex.co.uk>
Subject: Re: Maines' Martyrdom and Vibratory Censorship
Date: Sun, 1 Aug 1999 12:48:37 +0100
I've now had at least a superficial glance at the book.
I suspect, from the authorities Maines cites on the history of hysteria,
that all she says about this will be shot down in flames by Helen King's
recent, highly praised, _Hippocrates' Women_. Unlike most people who have
written on this subject, King is is a highly competent classical scholar who
has gone back to the Greek and Latin texts and has deconstructed the
accepted historiographical analysis of the alleged Hippocratic origins of
what was defined in the C19th as hysteria. While King's book only came out
this year, articles by her in this area have been available for some time.
I also feel that although Maines mentions other aspects of
electrotherapy (galvanic belts and corsets etc) she has paid insufficient
attention to the claims that were being made for these devices in
advertisements, which were very similar to those she cites for vibrators -
e.g. restoring joy of life, purifying blood etc - and similar claims were
made for a variety of 'quack' remedies and devices. As galvanic belts, etc,
did nothing at all (except via suggestion and belief in the almost magical
powers of 'electricity'), I think it may be over-interpreting the claims
made for vibrators to assume a mutually understood sexual subtext to the
ways they were being promoted.
On women and masturbation: presumably some women did discover this and
as it was such an unnamed and taboo topic (unlike male 'self-abuse') there
was little condemnatory discourse they might have encountered - they might
not even have defined it as 'sexual' in an era when 'the sexual' for women
revolved around penetrative intercourse with men. I was struck, when going
through the 1000s of letters to Marie Stopes, how little masturbation was an
issue for women, whereas it recurred frequently as a source of concern in
letters from men (cf my article 'Forbidden by God, despised by men', in Jnl
Hist Sexuality, reprinted in Fout, _Forbidden History_). Stopes even
suggested (though only in private correspondence, not in print!) that for
the mature unmarried woman it was ('in moderation') a permissible form of
relief (particularly in conjunction with the glandular remedies Stopes was
also keen on).
Stella Browne certainly believed that masturbation in women was more
common than might be supposed (views put forward in _The Freewoman_ chastity
debates, 1912), though she did not pathologise the practice (in fact was pro
it).
Even modern surveys (for what they're worth) indicate that while nearly
100% of men have masturbated at one time or another (if not habitually), far
fewer women have, and they tend to start the practice later in life than men
(who normally begin in adolescence) - possibly after their sexual desires
have been aroused by external factors, rather than coming as a spontaneous
response to adolescent erections. So whether women would automatically think
of vibratory massagers as aids to masturbation is questionable, especially
in an era when the desirability of orgasms for all was not being thrust at
them from all sides.
As for the vibrator being the 'magic wand' for all women, I'm dubious of
any statement which contains the words 'all women' (as Stella B commented,
'I have never met the normal woman'). Some women, after all, do have orgasms
from penetrative sex, even if this is far from universal. Some women have
nocturnal orgasms without any stimulation. Some women start masturbating to
orgasm from early childhood and others don't have any orgasms until their
fourth or fifth decade.
Maines largely appears to ignore the Stopes and after tradition of
female authored sex manuals critiquing the phallocentric model of
intercourse - while this was perhaps a more UK than US phenomenon (Stopes,
Hutton, Wright, Malleson, etc were all British) these books did appear in US
editions and are mentioned in Brecher's book on the sex researchers.
Thanks, Hera, for opening this discussion.
Lesley
Lesley Hall
lesleyah@primex.co.uk
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From: "Lesley Hall" <lesleyah@primex.co.uk>
Subject: Research interests register
Date: Sun, 1 Aug 1999 18:46:23 +0100
Some while ago I mooted this and while the response was on the whole =
positive, pressure of other things meant I had to put it on the =
backburner for a while.
I have now given some thought to the possibilities, in particular =
the question of searchability (which was raised as a potential problem), =
and although my webmastering skills are not up to creating an actual =
database on my website, I have put a search engine on the page for =
searching by keyword terms.
The under-development page is on my website at =
http://homepages.primex.co.uk/~lesleyah/hofsresr.htm
though so far I haven't put in any entries (even though some people sent =
me information at the time of the original posting). Any suggestions =
about what should be mentioned there will be welcomed.
If people are interested in putting their information on this =
register, please could they let me have (at my private e-mail address =
lesleyah@primex.co.uk,rather than on-list), the following details:
name, institutional affiliation (if any), e-mail address (and other =
contact details if you want), personal website info if applicable, and =
details of your research, using, as far as possible, terms which other =
individuals are likely to use for search purposes - i.e. indicate not =
merely that you are interested in e.g. prostitution or pornography, but =
the region/country, and the period (general/precise).
There may be some minor delays in getting the information onto the =
site, as I would prefer to reindex the site when I have a reasonable =
batch of entries rather than in driblets of one or two at a time.
Lesley Hall
lesleyah@primex.co.uk
histsex-owner@listbot.com
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From: "Chris Willis" <chris@chriswillis.freeserve.co.uk>
Subject: Maines' martyrdom
Date: Sun, 15 Aug 1999 12:32:20 +0100
Hi!
Thre's an article about Rachel Maines in today's "Independent on Sunday"
which explains a lot about why her research was considered dodgy. It
includes illustrations of some of the things she insists are vibrators -
some of which quite clearly aren't! She seems to think that any appliance
which has the word "vibrate" or "massage" in its name or instructions must
be a vibrator, even if it's something like a neck and scalp massager. One
of the devices illustrated looks like a 1940s equivalent of the "Tens"
machine which is used to treat people with incurable back and neck
problems - in other words, exactly what the advertisements say it is.
It's a shame that she's insistent on pushing her arguemnts too far. Her
basic argument may well be correct, but it looks as if she's determined to
twist facts in order to produce as much extra "evidence" as possible to back
up her thesis. I find this mildly offensive to all the disabled people who
need the kind of devices she insists are purely sexual (eg RSI sufferers
whose symptoms can be alleviated by neck massage). A deaf friend of mine,
who obviously can't hear a conventional alarm clock, has a device with
vibrates under his pillow instead - I dread to think what Maines would make
of that! :-)
All the best
Chris
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Chris Willis
English Dept
Birkbeck College
Malet Street
London WC1E 7HX
Chris@chriswillis.freeserve.co.uk
http://www.chriswillis.freeserve.co.uk/
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From: "Chris Willis" <chris@chriswillis.freeserve.co.uk>
Subject: Maines - PS
Date: Sun, 15 Aug 1999 12:39:05 +0100
Hi!
Forgot to say in my last msg - the Independent on Sunday is on-line at
http://www.independent.co.uk/
ATB
Chris
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Chris Willis
English Dept
Birkbeck College
Malet Street
London WC1E 7HX
Chris@chriswillis.freeserve.co.uk
http://www.chriswillis.freeserve.co.uk/
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Date: 15 Aug 1999 19:47:39 -0000
From: "Histsex:For historians of sexuality" <histsex-owner@listbot.com>
Subject: New members/Introductions/Research Interests register
A number of new subscribers have recently joined. I invite them (and
anyone else who has not yet done so) to post a message to the list
introducing themselves and their particular interests. And of course,
don't wait for someone else to start a discussion - jump in with your own
queries, points, information, etc.
I'll remind everyone that I'm setting up a Research Interests Register:
the basic layout of this under development site can be observed at
http://homepages/primex.co.uk/~lesleyah/hofsresr.htm
Let me know by e-mail any information which you would like posted.
Lesley
histsex-owner@listbot.com
lesleyah@primex.co.uk
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From: Kazetnik@aol.com
Date: Sun, 15 Aug 1999 18:01:13 EDT
Subject: Re: Maines - PS
Hi
Thanks to Chris Willis for the note re the Maines review. But it's
frustrating when only part of a paper is on-line....! The more I hear about
this 'project' of hers, the more disquieted I become. Why has she produced
such shoddy scholarship? Is it the publish-or-be-unemployed scenario? Or is
it somehow related to a caricature of the work of historians of sexuality, a
kind of post-Freud, everything is about sex if you only look properly? It is
tiresome that the objects of our study are regarded by some as trivial,
inappropriate, not serious. It is hopeless if the specificity of the field of
study is annihilated by 'scholars' who insist on producing arguments of such
dubious veracity in the name of writing the history of sexuality. Am I just
being paranoid, or is she doing all of us a disservice?
Chris White
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Date: Sun, 15 Aug 1999 23:25:46 +0100
To: "Histsex:For historians of sexuality" <histsex@listbot.com>
From: Ianthe <ianthe@duende.demon.co.uk>
In message <5a98a727.24e892a9@aol.com>, Kazetnik@aol.com writes
>Histsex:For historians of sexuality - http://homepages.primex.co.uk/~lesleyah
>>Hi
>>Thanks to Chris Willis for the note re the Maines review. But it's
>frustrating when only part of a paper is on-line....! The more I hear about
>this 'project' of hers, the more disquieted I become. Why has she produced
>such shoddy scholarship?
'Allegedly' ;-) There was an interesting long illustrated
article in Wired on this (her work, not the unsubstantiated
notion that her work might be sub-standard). As most
old Wired articles are online, go check www.wired.com
--
Ianthe Duende
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Date: Sun, 15 Aug 1999 20:37:35 -0700
From: Heather Lee Miller <miller.1438@osu.edu>
Subject: Re: New members/Introductions/Research Interests register
Hi,
Well, I guess I'll take this opportunity to introduce myself! I am a PhD
candidate in history at the Ohio State University (USA) and a managing
editor on the Journal of Women's History. I am working on a dissertation
about the connections between prostitution and lesbianism in sexology and
practice (among sex workers) in the US between 1840 and 1940.
Simultaneously the broadest and the narrowest topic possible! I look
forward to hearing from everyone else!
Best,
Heather Lee Miller
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Heather Lee Miller
Ph.D. candidate
Ohio State University
miller.1438@osu.edu
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
"In my young days, I used to pick up sluts, and I don't mean that nastily.
It's more a term of endearment, really, for girls who know how to speak
their minds."
- Kevin Costner
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Date: Mon, 16 Aug 1999 11:07:53 -0500 (CDT)
From: Sarah Elizabeth Hodges <sehodges@midway.uchicago.edu>
Subject: Re: New members/Introductions/Research Interests register
I too have been lurking this summer. My name is Sarah Hodges and I am a
PhD student in History at the University of Chicago -- although I have
been living in London since spring 98 and look to be signed up for
another 5 years or so.
I began writing a disseration on the history of birth control in India,
but am now just finishing up under the working title: "Modern Families,
Married Love: Towards a History of the 'Small Family Norm' in
20th-Century India." The point of the thesis is to figure out how 'small
family' came to be equated with 'modern family' in India. In order to do
this, I investigate a number of social movements and institutions in
India in the
1920s and 1930s: the non-Brahmin movement in south India, liberal social
reformers, erotic entrepreneurs (aka patent medicine firms and
sex manual publishers), Indian eugenicists and finally, birth cotnrol
advocates. As such, the first half of the thesis sets up how the
conjugal couple was promoted as the new kernel around which modern family
life was to be built, and the second half of the thesis explores how this
couple's 'correct reproduction' was arbitrated.
I would be especially interested if people know of work in places besides
India which deal with this-- I just found a copy of John Gillis' _A World
of their Own Making: Myth, Ritual and the Quest for Family Values_ but I
think that this must eb the tip of the iceberg-- that is, looking at
relations between and among family, normativity and sexuality as part and
parcel of 'modernization' etc.
Also-- a little plug-- I am co-organzing with David Arnold a conference
which will take place in London 18-19 November 1999 on 'Population,
Reproduction, and Birth Control in Late Colonial India' -- it will be
held at the Centre for the Culture and History of Medicine at the School
of Oriental and African Studies, University of London. If there is
interest, I would be happy to post the tentative list of papers and our
preliminary statement.
At least one of the presenters I think is on this list-- perhaps you have
already introduced yourself? There are a lot of younger scholars who are
doing extremely innovative work on the history of sexuality and
reproduction in India and the point of the conference is to have everyone
meet finally in one place but also to showcase how great their work is.
The conference is open to any and all who wish to come.
Finally: to the person who is working on Maud Allen-- a good friend has
great material on her scandalous (and ultimately cancelled) performance
in Madras-- let me know if you would like his email.
Sarah
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From: "Donna Larsen" <ladydonna85@hotmail.com>
Subject: Re: New members/Introductions/Research Interests register
Date: Mon, 16 Aug 1999 09:45:11 PDT
I am a 35 year old returning student. At the moment I am working on my
transferrer degree at Seattle Central community college. I plan to obtain
my PH.D in Psychology and then specialize in education and research in the
field of human sexuality. I have joined this list mainly to learn.
I am also a lesbian leather woman. I have been a member of the Seattle
Leather community for about 9 years now. I have been a professional
Dominatrix. I did that for about 8 years and just recently decided to take
a breather from that for a while. I am also a pagan whose sexuality and
spirituality are very much connected.
My wife Stephanie and I are in a Polyamoury relationship. This works
extremely well for us. So that is Me in nutshell. I have been very much
enjoying the information and conversations so far.
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From: "Lesley Hall" <lesleyah@primex.co.uk>
Subject: Re: Maines - PS
Date: Mon, 16 Aug 1999 19:50:21 +0100
> Why has she produced
>such shoddy scholarship? Is it the publish-or-be-unemployed scenario?
I think this may relate to the demand, even by some academic presses, that
new monographs should be marketable to a wide and non-specialist audience.
Obviously to do that it's no good saying you have an interesting small
sidelight on some marginal eccentricities of Victorian sexual culture, you
have to have a startling new thesis which will overturn accepted etc etc
etc.
I note that there is a website 'Good Vibrations' (which I don't offhand
have the URL for which includes a 'Virtual Museum of the History of the
Vibrator' - which seems rather reminiscent of Maines's book though I
couldn't find it cited anywhere. (GV started as a women-friendly business
selling vibrators in I think the 1970s).
Lesley Hall
lesleyah@primex.co.uk
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Date: Mon, 16 Aug 1999 21:48:26 +0100
From: Ianthe <ianthe@duende.demon.co.uk>
Subject: Maines - PS
In message <00d701bee818$58da1920$912f70c3@default>, Lesley Hall
<lesleyah@primex.co.uk> writes
>Histsex:For historians of sexuality - http://homepages.primex.co.uk/~lesleyah
>>> Why has she produced
>>such shoddy scholarship? Is it the publish-or-be-unemployed scenario?
>>I think this may relate to the demand, even by some academic presses, that
>new monographs should be marketable to a wide and non-specialist audience.
In her case it was publish and be _un_-employed. This
Carnegie-Mellon Phd spent 20 years researching and
writing _The Technology of the Orgasm_ (Dec 1998, John
Hopkins UP) and for her pains was apparently (according
to Wired) promptly sacked from the faculty of Clarkson
U, on publication. Luckily it seems she has a research
and curatorship business to fall back on.
_Web links_:
* Amazon.com, with comments:
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0801859417/o/qid=934835232/sr=
8-1/002-1370467-1434652 (place all on one line, press 'enter')
* John Hopkins University Press page for the book:
http://www.press.jhu.edu/press/books/titles/f98/f98mate.htm
* The full-text of Chapter 1 (uncorrected proof):
http://128.220.50.88/press/books/titles/sampler/maines.htm
_Some Web reviews_:
* Salon:
http://ww1.salonmagazine.com/urge/feature/1999/02/cov_25feature.html
* CyberSociology:
http://www.socio.demon.co.uk/magazine/5/5orgasm.html
* New York Times:
http://bettydodson.com/org-tech.htm
* LA Weekly:
http://www.laweekly.com/ink/99/03/wls-mithers.shtml
--
Ianthe Duende
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From: HayGirl99@aol.com
Date: Mon, 16 Aug 1999 16:59:31 EDT
Subject: Re: New members/Introductions/Research Interests register
Hi,
I joined the list a couple of months ago....I'm not a college student or
a professor or a writer.....I'm a 15 year old high school student from South
Carolina. I've been interested in the history of women and human
sexuality--mainly the the history of women's sexuality. I'd like to research
these topics in depth. I searched the web for sites on them and came across
an advertisement for this list--so I joined.
Anyway, you won't hear much from me. I'm just here to learn from ya'll
and expand my own knowledge on the subjects. Hopefully, soon I'll be able to
put my two cents in. I've really enjoyed it so far!
Thanks
~Hailey
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Date: Mon, 16 Aug 1999 14:40:07 -0700
From: chris dummitt <cdummitt@sfu.ca>
Subject: maines and intro
Fellow Subscribers,
An anecdote to the Maines discussion: The book, _The Road to Welville_
(1993), by novelist T. Coraghessan Boyle, includes a scenario in which a
doctor (of dubious reputation) manipulates the "wombs" of various women.
Boyle uses the scenario to poke fun at the distinctions made between the
serious science allegedly performed at John Harvey Kellog's sanitarium
(through which the reader has already seen people die) and that type of
science deemed quakery (through which the female characters' conditions
seem to be improving). Now, Boyle is a satirist and his intention is to
poke fun at both types of science but he may have a point. Surely, we can
learn from Maines (without accepting her whole thesis) that the distinction
between legitimate and illegitimate was a fuzzy business in the late
nineteenth century (on this, see Keith Walden's superb _Becoming Modern in
Toronto_ (1997))
I'm not sure of Boyle's historical sources but in this and his other works,
I have found him to evoke historical context better than (alas) many
historians. For example, his _Riven Rock_ is the perfect novel companion
to Gail Bederman's _Manliness and Civilization_.
An introduction: I am a doctoral candidate at Simon Fraser University in
British Columbia. My dissertation is a cultural history of men and
violence in post-WWII Vancouver - looking at the cultural definitions and
responses to different types of violence. I have also done work on
masculine domesticity in the 1950s including an article on the origins of
men's suburban barbecuing in Canada.
chris dummitt
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Chris Dummitt
Doctoral Candidate
Department of History
Simon Fraser University
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___________________________________________________________________ From: "Matthew Johnson" <trekdrop78@hotmail.com>
Subject: Re: New members/Introductions/Research Interests register
Date: Mon, 16 Aug 1999 18:26:04 PDT
hello,
for what it's worth (I think I may have inadvertantly introduced myself to
the list in a message to Lesley Hall a few weeks back), my name is Matthew
Johnson and I joined the list in may. I will be receiving my BA from New
York Univ in December 99 (in German and European Studies). Partly in spite
of, partly because of my majors, virtually all of the independent research
and writing I have carried out as an undergrad has dealt with issues of
history and sexuality. A great deal of this has focused on the Weimar
Republic: I have carried out research on the german youth movement among the
working-class, the 'decadence' and 'perversions' of Weimar's cabaret culture
and how they related (or did not relate) to the republic's eventual
downfall, the history of the early homosexual liberation movement, and
(currently) the subcultures of the human body in the republic and the nazi
period (esp. nudism and how this related to homoeroticism).
in addition, I am completing a BA thesis begun as a class project for a
course taught by gert hekma at the university of amsterdam. the thesis is
on the prevention of hiv/std's among dutch gay men in the netherlands.
i am in the process of applying for graduate programs, with a PhD in history
as an eventual goal.
again, hello to all. I may not be very talkative, but am here and listening
(that sounds kinda creepy, sorry...)
-- Matt Johnson
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Date: Mon, 16 Aug 1999 18:34:44 -0700
From: Marthe Arends <mnarends@earthlink.net>
Subject: Yet another Intro
Boy, do I feel like an uneducated boob what with everyone's academic
credentials flying hither and yon. I'm not in academia, I'm a writer,
focusing primarily on historical novels in the mid to late
Victorian/early Edwardian eras. While I do not include overt sexual
issues, I plan to touch on one or two (particularly birth control around
the turn of the century) in future books, and am prone to researching
the pants (ha! sorry, bad pun) off of subjects, hence my enjoyment of
this list.
Back into lurk mode...
Marthe
http://home.earthlink.net/~mnarends
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Date: Tue, 17 Aug 1999 12:42:05 +1000
From: Hera Cook <dcoo8738@mail.usyd.edu.au>
Subject: Re: Maines
Ianthe wrote,
In her case it was publish and be _un_-employed. This
Carnegie-Mellon Phd spent 20 years researching and
writing _The Technology of the Orgasm_ (Dec 1998, John
Hopkins UP) and for her pains was apparently (according
to Wired) promptly sacked from the faculty of Clarkson
U, on publication. Luckily it seems she has a research
and curatorship business to fall back on.
Hera replies
I am a bit lost here. I read that she had trouble in the 1980s. I would be
astonished if it was correct that she was sacked from Clarkson U for a book
published by John Hopkins U press in 1999.
As the person who introduced this topic and many of the criticisms of Maine's
work. I would like to comment that I wouldn't have used the word shoddy about her
research. It is evident from her introduction that Maine started her work with
certain preconceptions - but she is hardly alone in that. I am resistant to her
and her publicists' construction of her as matyred to the heroic cause of truth
about vibrators. However one of the problems with being attacked from outside in
an unreasonable basis, as it appears she was on one occasion in the 80s, is that
it tends to diminish people's capacity for re-analysis and skeptism towards their
own work.
So she probably never went back and examined her own fundamental assumptions nor
had the time to look at the medical context in which, as Leslie pointed out, the
vibrators were used quite differently. However she has done a great deal of
research in the areas she thought were relevant. It is not shoddy it is just wrong
and publicised in a way that emphasises that.
Hera
___________________________________________________________________
From: "Lisa Cardyn" <lcardyn@email.msn.com>
Subject: Re: New members/Introductions/Research Interests register
Date: Tue, 17 Aug 1999 01:42:09 -0400
Hi there--
I've been lurking on the list with great interest for a while now and
thought I'd take a moment to introduce myself. I'm a PhD student in
American Studies at Yale working on a dissertation that looks at the
evolution of legal, medical, and psychological conceptions of sexual trauma
in American culture from the postbellum period through the mid-20th century.
In addition to the theoretical chapters that focus most directly on
practical and discursive developments within the professions, I'm also
integrating a select number of historical episodes that serve as case
studies for observing how sexual trauma was represented within the larger
culture (e.g., the use of sexual terror by the Reconstruction-era klans).
I've really come to appreciate hearing what all of you are thinking and
writing about and look forward to participating in many interesting
discussions in the coming months.
Best wishes,
Lisa Cardyn
ABD, Yale University
JD, Yale Law School
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From: Kazetnik@aol.com
Date: Tue, 17 Aug 1999 08:50:53 EDT
Subject: Maines: terms of critique
Hi
Given that I was responsible for calling Maines' work shoddy, I would like to
withdraw the insult and apologise -- it was an overstatement, but one born of
(personal) irritation not so much with Maines, but rather with the climate in
which we UK academics seem doomed to work, in which quantity takes precedence
over quality. Not an original gripe, of course, but with the next RAE
looming, planning for the one after that is beginning to take control. Ugh!
Chris White
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Date: Tue, 17 Aug 1999 14:14:48 +0100 (BST)
From: RM CLEMINSON <R.M.Cleminson@Bradford.ac.uk>
Subject: introduction
I am also relatively new to the list. My interests lie in the field of
Spanish eugenics and history of sexuality. Particularly, I have written
material on the Catalan anarchists' discourse on sexuality and eugenics in
the early twentieth century. I am also interested in critiques of newer
'gay gene' theories.
******************************
Dr.Richard M. Cleminson
Lecturer in Spanish Studies
Department of Modern Languages
University of Bradford
Bradford, West Yorkshire
BD7 1DP
tel: +1274 234595
fax: +1274 235590
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From: "Lesley Hall" <lesleyah@primex.co.uk>
Subject: The silly season? Sex and the ancient Greeks
Date: Tue, 17 Aug 1999 19:44:20 +0100
Seen yesterday in _The Guardian_ (and available for perusal in extenso at
www.newsunlimited.co.uk)
Book tells it straight about sex lives of ancient Greeks
Forget the philosophers - a new study debunks the popular view of
bedroom antics in the classical world, and it's selling by the stack
Helena Smith in Athens
Monday August 16, 1999
In ancient Greece, homosexuals were frowned upon, paedophiles were
punished and masturbation was seen as fit only for slaves. Even the
missionary position was out, according to a slim 88-page volume which has
become one of the hottest reads in Greece.
The book, Love, Sex and Marriage: A Guide to the Private Life of the
Ancient Greeks, has become a bestseller in modern Greece
I'd appreciate the opinion of any of the classicists on the list, but none
of this alleged radical revisionism seems to be saying anything remarkably
new? Apparently 'Mr Vrissimtzis, a sociologist, wrote the book after
studying classical texts, inscriptions and pottery in museums and libraries'
(but not, apparently, the plethora of scholarship relating to precisely this
subject!). The reason for the writing of the book and its success seem
rather confused: on the one hand 'in a country where "obscene" statues and
vases were stashed away in museum storerooms until the early 70s, the
revival has as much to do with revising perceptions of the past as anything
else', on the other 'several Greek historians... are bent on dismissing the
commonly held notion that their ancestors were liberal, free-for-all
revellers'.
This strikes me as another example of canny marketing (as with Maines's
book).
Lesley Hall
lesleyah@primex.co.uk
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From: "Chris Willis" <chris@chriswillis.freeserve.co.uk>
Subject: Maines again
Date: Tue, 17 Aug 1999 12:53:37 +0100
Hi!
>> it's frustrating when only part of a paper is on-line....!
I agree! I'm also wondering whether the pictures the Independent used were
provided by Maines or added by the Independent themselves. (I used to be a
journalist and we quite often supplemented an article with whatever vaguely
relevant pics we could dig out of the library.) If the latter, they may not
be a fair reflection of her research.
I wonder if part of the reason for the hostility to her work is that some of
it could be construed as attacking the medical establishment? OK, so it was
a long time ago, but her allegations about male doctors sexually abusing
women under the pretence that it was medical treatment are very disturbing.
All the best
Chris
=========================================
Chris Willis
English Dept
Birkbeck College
Malet Street
London WC1E 7HX
Chris@chriswillis.freeserve.co.uk
http://www.chriswillis.freeserve.co.uk/
=========================================
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Date: Tue, 17 Aug 1999 12:46:54 -0500
From: Marion <neko75@mindspring.com>
Subject: Re: New members/Introductions/Research Interests register
I guess I'll add my introduction to those of us who have been lurking for a
while. I am a first-year Ph.D. student in U.S. history at the University
of Southern California. I just graduated from Oklahoma State University,
where I developed my interest in the history of sexuality in the United
States. I have always been interested in women's studies, but I have
become very interested in concepts of masculinity (particularly related to
Asian American culture because my main area of study is in
Japanese-American history). I haven't really done any research in these
areas yet, but I have at least five years of Ph.D. work ahead of me during
which I can pursue my interests.
Marion Umeno
University of Southern California
first-year history Ph.D. student
___________________________________________________________________
From: along@crt.state.la.us (Alecia Long)
Subject: RE: The silly season? Sex and the ancient Greeks
Date: Tue, 17 Aug 1999 15:17:43 -0500
I, for one, have a been a little bothered by the assumption that seems to
be be embedded in some of the recent list postings about Maines book and
now about Vrissimmtzs' book.
The assumption that these two books are somehow without value or don't pass
muster because the authors make mistakes and/or fail to take into account
the work of the history of sexuality cannon smacks of the very same kind of
academic derision and elitism that folks in the history of sexuality
community have been fighting against in order to have their work taken
seriously.
I don't think it does a lot of good for us to canibalize each other just
because we can. Criticism is essential, but far too often that criticism
devolves into smug and smirky commentary. God knows trying to write a
dissertation, let alone a book, is the hardest thing I've ever done, and I
always try to remember that when I'm reviewing or critiquing the work of
others. I also try to remember that the most important and bravest things
a writer or scholar can ever do is have the stamina to finish something and
then the nerve to put it out there for public scrutiny.
My own work is on New Orleans. While the existing secondary works on
sexuality in my subject city fall far short of what I consider minimum
standards of professional scholarly research, they have been invaluable to
me -- both in terms of helping me generate questions and providing
invaluable research leads. I would go so far as to say that popular/buff
literature on sexuality (and I would place Vrissimtz' work in this category
but not Maines) does an invaluable service to more "serious" scholars
because it generates interest among the larger reading public.
I think lots of the criticism of Maines' book has been right on-target and
I don't think she's a martyr, but I take exception to the assertion that
her book is an exemplar of "quantity over quality" publishing.
More than enough said I suspect.
Alecia P. Long, Historian
Louisiana State Museum
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Date: Wed, 18 Aug 1999 10:13:14 +1000
From: Hera Cook <dcoo8738@mail.usyd.edu.au>
Subject: Re: New members/Introductions/Research Interests register
Hi,
Other people may feel differently, but I would love you to post your
conference program. That seems to me to be one of the things this list should be
for - to let us all know what is happening in other areas of the history of
sexuality.
(Comment from Leslie, please!)
Regards,
Hera
Sarah Elizabeth Hodges wrote:
> [message snipped]
>> Also-- a little plug-- I am co-organzing with David Arnold a conference
> which will take place in London 18-19 November 1999 on 'Population,
> Reproduction, and Birth Control in Late Colonial India' -- it will be
> held at the Centre for the Culture and History of Medicine at the School
> of Oriental and African Studies, University of London. If there is
> interest, I would be happy to post the tentative list of papers and our
> preliminary statement.
>>> ___________________________________________________________________
Date: Wed, 18 Aug 1999 10:46:53 +1000
From: Hera Cook <dcoo8738@mail.usyd.edu.au>
Subject: Re: Masturbation in Ancient Greece and Maines
Hi,
As I remember the illustrations do come from the book. Also she is not
talking about doctors sexually abusing women.
She believes that these doctors and these women did not see clitoral sensations
as sexual - only vaginal penetration was sexual according to her. Therefore, she
argues, that both the doctors and the women saw doctors giving women clitoral
massage to orgasm as non-sexual relief of hysteria.
As I have said I seriously doubt that this practice was at all common, but where
(or if) it occurred in the ideological framework Maine presents, I would argue
very strongly that it is ahistorical to describe it as sexual abuse. The
experience of sexual abuse is culturally constructed and accordingly differs over
time and in different societies.
I think the reason for the hostility is that she has produced an argument which
is plausible and highly culturally acceptable right now - (read the articles
linked by Ianthe) so it is hard to dispute, even though it is not correct.
Does the Greek book come into the same category? It is obviously a culturally
acceptable idea in modern Greece but how is the evidence for very different
attitudes integrated into an argument for sexual conservatism?
I know little about sexuality in Ancient Greece. Is there anyone out there who
could comment on new scholarship on attitudes to masturbation, especially female
masturbation? And, of course, on attitudes to homosexuality.
(About 3-4 years ago I heard a radio 4 interview with a scholar fromWarwick
University talking about homosexuality in Ancient greece - it was so good I
remember it still - Are you out there by any chance?)
Hera
Chris Willis wrote:
> Histsex:For historians of sexuality - http://homepages.primex.co.uk/~lesleyah
>> Hi!
>> >> it's frustrating when only part of a paper is on-line....!
>> I agree! I'm also wondering whether the pictures the Independent used were
> provided by Maines or added by the Independent themselves. (I used to be a
> journalist and we quite often supplemented an article with whatever vaguely
> relevant pics we could dig out of the library.) If the latter, they may not
> be a fair reflection of her research.
>> I wonder if part of the reason for the hostility to her work is that some of
> it could be construed as attacking the medical establishment? OK, so it was
> a long time ago, but her allegations about male doctors sexually abusing
> women under the pretence that it was medical treatment are very disturbing.
>> All the best
> Chris
>> =========================================
> Chris Willis
> English Dept
> Birkbeck College
> Malet Street
> London WC1E 7HX
>> Chris@chriswillis.freeserve.co.uk
> http://www.chriswillis.freeserve.co.uk/
> =========================================
>> ___________________________________________________________________
Date: Tue, 17 Aug 1999 20:22:03 -0700
From: Jack Kolb <kolb@ucla.edu>
Subject: Re: The silly season? Sex and the ancient Greeks
>Seen yesterday in _The Guardian_ (and available for perusal in extenso at
>www.newsunlimited.co.uk)
> Book tells it straight about sex lives of ancient Greeks
> Forget the philosophers - a new study debunks the popular view of
>bedroom antics in the classical world, and it's selling by the stack
>Lesley Hall
>lesleyah@primex.co.uk
I searched this site, Leslie, but couldn't find the connection to the book
you mention. Maybe I just gave up too soon. But any further help would be
appreciated.
Jack Kolb
Dept. of English, UCLA
kolb@ucla.edu
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Date: Wed, 18 Aug 1999 01:09:55 -0700
From: Margaret <minxs@sonic.net>
Subject: Re: New members/Introductions/Research Interests register
I'm another non-academic. I run the Pro-Choice Views website at About.com -
http://prochoice.about.com - and am always on the lookout for interesting
links and possible topics for articles that relate to abortion, birth
control, and "reproductive issues" in general.
Parenthetically, I just read "Courtesans and Fishcakes" which is about
appetites in ancient Greece. Anyone familiar with it? (Apologies if it's
been discussed already.)
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Date: 18 Aug 1999 08:57:03 -0000
From: "Histsex:For historians of sexuality" <histsex-owner@listbot.com>
Subject: Conference announcements and calls for papers
In response to Hera's enquiry, yes, these are very welcome (I think it
does indicate on the list home page that this is a place for these, and
indeed information about forthcoming or recently published books in the
field, as well as for discussion).
Lesley
histsex-owner@listbot.com
lesleyah@primex.co.uk
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Date: 18 Aug 1999 08:59:53 -0000
From: "Histsex:For historians of sexuality" <histsex-owner@listbot.com>
Subject: Finding Guardian article
There is a search engine somewhere on the site www.newsunlimited.co.uk
which searches the past 7 days: the page that the link takes you to at
first is always the current day's issue. I located the article in question
by searching on keywords from the headline.
Lesley
histsex-owner@listbot.com
lesleyah@primex.co.uk
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Date: Tue, 17 Aug 1999 17:55:00 -0600
From: Miriam Jones <mjones@unbsj.ca>
Subject: Re: New members/Introductions/Research Interests register
Well, the trend is too strong to resist, so here is my intro.
A long-time lurker, first-time (?) poster, I recently finished my PhD
in the Graduate Program in English at York U (Toronto, Canada), and
have just begun an appointment in the Dept. of Humanities and
Languages at the University of New Brunswick in Saint John. My
dissertation was "'Too Common and Most Unnatural': rewriting the
'infanticidal woman' in Britain, 1764-1859." It focuses on class and
gender issues in the way women who were accused of infanticide are
represented in folkloric ballads, broadsides, novels, forensic texts,
and newspapers. I will be working with this material for awhile,
turning it into a book (says she, brightly). I am also beginning some
work on "murderous sweetheart" narratives, which grows out of my
diss. research (for every broadside narrative I found about
infanticide, I found five about men who murdered their pregnant
lovers in order to avoid having to marry them). This should bring up
some interesting questions about sexual danger, the construction of
the labouring-class man as brutal, etc. etc.
I have been enjoying the list immensely.
Miriam
m i r i a m j o n e s, PhD
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Assistant Professor
Department of Humanities and Languages
University of New Brunswick in Saint John
P.O. Box 5050
Saint John, NB, Canada E2L 4l5
(506) 648-5602
mailto:mjones@unbsj.ca
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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Date: Wed, 18 Aug 1999 12:23:31 -0500
From: "Susan E. Myers-Shirk" <sshirk@mtsu.edu>
Subject: introduction
Hi:
Thought I'd take a moment to introduce myself. I've been reading the
list for sometime, but haven't gotten around to introducing myself yet.
I'm an associate professor in U.S. cultural and intellectual history at
Middle Tennessee State University in Murfreesboro, TN, USA. I'm
finishing up a project right now on Protestant moral imagination in the
mid-twentieth century. It focuses in particular on the work of pastoral
counselors (ordained ministers who were also trained as psychological
counselors and psychotherapists). Surprisingly, (or not surprisingly,
depending upon your perspective) they spent a remarkable amount of time
talking about sex.
This project has led me into my second project in
which I plan to examine the relationship between Protestant mainline or
mainstream denominations and their gay and lesbian parishioners in the
1940s, 1950s, and 1960s, perhaps going as late as the 1970s. There's a
significant amount of published and manuscript material on this topic,
but I'm also looking to interview gay and lesbian folks who were church
members, seminary students/professors or in any way associated with the
Protestant community during these three decades. Any comments or
thoughts from list readers would be welcomed.
I've been enjoying the discussion and am looking forward to more.
Susan Myers-Shirk
___________________________________________________________________
From: "Chris Willis" <chris@chriswillis.freeserve.co.uk>
Subject: Re: Maines and the silly season
Date: Wed, 18 Aug 1999 20:13:52 +0100
Hi!
The point I was trying to make is that Maines' work can be interpreted as an
attack on the medical establishment in general and abusive doctors (or what
we would now term abusive doctors) in particular, which might account for
some of the hostility towards her work. Press coverage certainly hasn't
helped!
While I take your point about cultural constructs, I can't entirely agree
that such treatment was necessarily non-abusive. I appreciate that the
doctors may well have claimed it wasn't abuse but, to paraphrase Mandy
Rice-Jones, "Well they would, wouldn't they?" Does Maines give patients'
views of the treatment? I haven't been able to get hold of her book yet, so
I'm having to go on what she's been quoted as saying, which I do appreciate
may not be accurate. (Some of the accounts I've read give the impression
she is talking about abuse, amongst other things, but then, it is the silly
season!)
Does Maines give any examples of female doctors or male patients involved in
this treatment? There's some fascinating gender politics here. It's
interesting that a professionally-qualified man receiving payment for
stimulating a woman to orgasm was considered to be giving medical treatment,
whereas women who did the same for men were regarded as prostitutes.
All the best
Chris
Hera Cook wrote:
> Also she is not
>talking about doctors sexually abusing women.
>She believes that these doctors and these women did not see clitoral
sensations
>as sexual - only vaginal penetration was sexual according to her.
Therefore, she
>argues, that both the doctors and the women saw doctors giving women
clitoral
>massage to orgasm as non-sexual relief of hysteria.
>As I have said I seriously doubt that this practice was at all common, but
where
>(or if) it occurred in the ideological framework Maine presents, I would
argue
>very strongly that it is ahistorical to describe it as sexual abuse. The
>experience of sexual abuse is culturally constructed and accordingly
differs over
>time and in different societies.
>
___________________________________________________________________
Date: Thu, 19 Aug 1999 07:10:24 +0100
From: Ianthe <ianthe@duende.demon.co.uk>
Subject: Re: Finding Guardian article
In message <934966808.13151.qmail@ech>, Histsex:For historians of
sexuality <histsex-owner@listbot.com> writes
>Histsex:For historians of sexuality - http://homepages.primex.co.uk/~lesleyah
>>There is a search engine somewhere on the site www.newsunlimited.co.uk
>which searches the past 7 days: the page that the link takes you to at
>first is always the current day's issue. I located the article in question
>by searching on keywords from the headline.
The Financial Times are currently offering free access (next 10 days
or so) to their entire 5000-periodial archive, which includes such UK
national broadsheet newspapers as The Guardian and The Independent.
http://www.ft.com/virtual-globalarchive Rip it while you can ;-)
If you're really clever with Perl and fat academic connection you
could write a script which would syphon off the entire Independent
and Guardian article-database... :)
Yours,
--
Ianthe Duende
___________________________________________________________________
Date: Thu, 19 Aug 1999 07:23:18 -0700
From: James Anthony <reader45@pacbell.net>
Subject: Re: new member introduction/
Salutations.
I am here. I read and research. I was introduced to this list last May,
by a visiting professor from Amsterdam. I am always quite intrigued by
Sex/Gender/Queer Culture Theory
and the resulting debates. I look forward to new insights.. with keen
attention.
Sincerely,
--
James Anthony
________________________________________________________________
From: "Donna Larsen" <ladydonna85@hotmail.com>
Subject: Re: new member introduction/
Date: Thu, 19 Aug 1999 16:58:35 PDT
Hello James. Are you taking the minor in Gay and Lesbian studies at San
Fransico State University. I also hear that they have a minor in Human
Sexuality. What have you or anyone here heard or found with these programs?
I have been considering this, though leaving Seattle is not something I am
anxious to do. I have also considered majoring in Psychology at University
of Washington and then doing one or both of those minors long distance. I
would apreciate any information from anyone concerning any of these
programs.
________________________________________________________________
From: "jayD" <jaysd@mistral.co.uk>
Subject: infanticide/miriam jones
Date: Fri, 20 Aug 1999 08:50:14 +0100
I sent the following email to Miriam Jones at her email addres and it has
been returned, so I am sending it to you thru' the group. Hope it is
useful.
j
I read your introduction to histsex and noticed your research is in the
area of infanticide. Have you come across the book _The Morning of Her Day_
by Jennifer Green, which is about a 17-year-old servant girl who was
hanged in 1805 for murdering her bastard child? The author, after going
through the evidence, decided that her death had been engineered by her
lover, who may have been involved with the murder of the child. I should
imagine the book is out of print but was published by Divine Books in 1987
and republished by Darf Publishers 50 Hans Crescent London SW1X 0NA (UK) in
1990.
jay Dixon
jaysd@mistral.co.uk
________________________________________________________________
Date: Fri, 20 Aug 1999 01:55:10 -0700
From: Jack Kolb <kolb@ucla.edu>
Subject: Re: Finding Guardian article
Many thanks for your kind suggestion, Ianthe. It sounds like a spurious
study. Has it even been accorded an academic review?
Jack Kolb
Dept. of English, UCLA
kolb@ucla.edu
________________________________________________________________
From: "Lesley Hall" <lesleyah@primex.co.uk>
Subject: Eder, Hall and Hekma: Sexual Cultures in Europe: Tables of contents
Date: Fri, 20 Aug 1999 21:49:07 +0100
It has been suggested to me that members of the list might find this =
information useful. I will also post these details on my website on the =
same page as the announcement of the publication: =
http://homepages.primex.co.uk/~lesleyah/nwsflsh.htm
National Overviews
Introduction by the editors=20
Sexual cultures in Great Britain: Some persisting themes Lesley A. Hall
Religion and Sexual Culture in Ireland Tony Fahey
The Netherlands: Neither Prudish nor Hedonistic Harry Oosterhuis
Sex and Sexuality in France since 1800 Robert A. Nye
Italy: Sexuality, morality, and public authority: metaphors and =
interventionism
Bruno P. F. Wanrooij
Sexual Cultures in Germany and Austria, 1700-2000 Franz X. Eder
Spain: the political and social context of sex reform in the late =
nineteenth and early twentieth centuries Richard M. Cleminson & Efigenio =
Amez=FAa
Sexuality and politics in Russia (1700-2000) Igor S. Kon
Sexual Science and Sex Reform=20
Medical Science and the Modernisation of Sexuality Harry Oosterhuis
The World League for Sexual Reform: Some Possible Approaches Ralf Dose
Themes in sexuality
Introduction by the editors
Dangerous sexualities and their control=20
Sexual Education in Germany From the Eighteenth to the Twentieth =
Centuries Lutz D.H. Sauerteig
The Rise and Fall of European Syphilisation: The Debates on Human =
Experimentation and Vaccination of Syphilis, c. 1845-1870 Bertrand =
Taithe
The Culture of Compulsion: VD, Sexuality and the State in =
Twentieth-Century Scotlan d Roger Davidson
Stigmatised sexualities=20
Same-sex Relations Among Men in Europe, 1700-1990 Gert Hekma
Pornography in Western European Culture Dorelies Kraakman
National Responses to Sexual Perversions: The Case of Transvestism =
Angus McLaren
Keeping their fingers on the pulse: lesbian doctors in Britain, =
1890-1950 Emily Hamer
Sex and reproduction=20
Falling fertilities and changing sexualities in Europe since c.1850: a =
comparative survey of national demographic patterns Simon Szreter=20
Cultures of abortion in the Hague, early twentieth century Willem de =
Bl=E9court
'Didn't Stop to Think, I Just Didn't Want Another One': the Culture of =
Abortion in Inter-war South Wales Kate Fisher=20
French Catholics between Abstinence and 'Appeasement of Lust', 1930-1950 =
Anne-Marie Sohn
Lesley Hall
lesleyah@primex.co.uk
________________________________________________________________
________________________________________________________________
From: "Lesley Hall" <lesleyah@primex.co.uk>
Subject: Technology of Orgasm
Date: Sun, 22 Aug 1999 12:28:46 +0100
Histsex:For historians of sexuality - http://homepages.primex.co.uk/~lesleyah
Well, I've now read this, and must say I find the case less than =
compelling. The case for hysteria as a historically continuous concept =
meaning the same thing over centuries has been convincingly =
deconstructed by Helen King, but one cannot blame Maines for relying on =
the works she did, long regarded as authoritative. A lot of the =
pre-C19th evidence is not contextualised by reference to the concept of =
drawing the womb, wandering round the body, back into its proper place =
(which, as far as I know, was the purpose of midwives massaging the =
female parts with aromatic oils) or to humoural theories of medicine and =
bodily balance. Thus in some cases (though I'm not an expert on the =
period) I think she's reading things that were meant to produce =
menstrual flow (stoppage of which was seen as dangerous damming up of =
bodily fluids) rather than any form of sexual discharge, as being about =
the latter.
The story also seems perhaps to be a particularly N. American one - =
I certainly don't think I've ever seen ads for similar vibratory =
massagers in UK women's periods of the turn of the century, although =
they do include ads for things like 'Widow Welch's Pills', an =
emmengogue/abortifacient, and Rendells Pessaries (contraceptives), and =
this would probably be comparable with other advertising of small =
consumer electrical items in the 2 countries. It might be interesting to =
look at when things like electric irons, vacuum cleaners, and =
whathaveyou were first advertised in the 2 countries, as a general =
exercise in the differential introduction of electrical technology into =
the household. (Though another factor here might be differences in =
availability of domestic servants?)
Hydropathy, massage, etc, were all supposed to have (and do have) =
benefits in toning up the system, relaxation, etc etc, distinct from =
producing orgasms: I have never seen any indication of the women in the =
whirlpool bath at the Sanctuary - Central London health spa - having =
orgasms, though another assumption of this book seems to be that women's =
orgasms are paroxysmal events, observable by bystanders - not =
necessarily!
The evidence for the sexualisation of the vibro-massager in the =
1920s seems thin - one stag film quoted from a source Maines herself =
regards as not entirely reliable. However, I suspect that there is =
another story about the technologisation of sex, which her gendered =
perspective leaves out. Somewhere in my own files I have xeroxes of =
various ads in 'The Pink 'Un' and similar raffish men's periodicals, =
1890s-1900s, for what I assume to be 'personal services' in the =
prostitution sense, but couched in terms of other bodily services such =
as massage and 'electrotherapy'. Were prostitutes using these devices =
_on men_? And would this be a reason for the growing perception of =
massagers as 'obscene objects' which could not be advertised in =
respectable periodicals.
There is interesting and suggestive material in this book but I =
don't think all the evidence adduced will bear the interpretation Maine =
wants it to. =20
Lesley Hall
lesleyah@primex.co.uk
website http://homepages.primex.co.uk/~lesleyah
________________________________________________________________
From: "Nicky Riding" <nicky@rfharchives.freeserve.co.uk>
Subject: Re: New members/Introductions/Research Interests register
Date: Mon, 23 Aug 1999 12:29:33 +0100
This came from the dodgy sexuality listserve! What do you think? I nearly
died laughing.
-----Original Message-----
From: Donna Larsen <ladydonna85@hotmail.com>
To: histsex@listbot.com <histsex@listbot.com>
Date: Monday, August 16, 1999 5:46 PM
Subject: Re: New members/Introductions/Research Interests register
>Histsex:For historians of sexuality -
http://homepages.primex.co.uk/~lesleyah
>
>I am a 35 year old returning student. At the moment I am working on my
>transferrer degree at Seattle Central community college. I plan to obtain
>my PH.D in Psychology and then specialize in education and research in the
>field of human sexuality. I have joined this list mainly to learn.
>
>I am also a lesbian leather woman. I have been a member of the Seattle
>Leather community for about 9 years now. I have been a professional
>Dominatrix. I did that for about 8 years and just recently decided to take
>a breather from that for a while. I am also a pagan whose sexuality and
>spirituality are very much connected.
>
>My wife Stephanie and I are in a Polyamoury relationship. This works
>extremely well for us. So that is Me in nutshell. I have been very much
>enjoying the information and conversations so far.
>
>_______________________________________________________________
Date: Mon, 23 Aug 1999 09:58:28 -0400
From: Sheila McManus <smcmanus@YorkU.CA>
Subject: Re: New members/Introductions/Research Interests register
Hi Nicky,
>This came from the dodgy sexuality listserve! What do you think? I nearly
>died laughing.
For the benefit of all of us on this listserve I was wondering if you could
explain what exactly it was that you found amusing about Ms. Larsen's
introduction? I for one am thrilled to know that the recipients of this
list represent as much human diversity as the topics we discuss, and that I
am not the only academic leatherdyke in the world.
Sheila McManus
Ph.D. Candidate, Department of History, York University
smcmanus@yorku.ca
________________________________________________________________
From: Kazetnik@aol.com
Message-ID: <c0f7fe70.24f2c116@aol.com>
Date: Mon, 23 Aug 1999 11:21:58 EDT
Subject: Re: New members/Introductions/Research Interests register
To Nicky Riding
Yes, why do you find this funny? I'm not a leatherdyke but I am a lesbian,
and that community is capable of containing a wide diversity of identities
and practices -- just like this list. A little less judging and a little more
listening might do some good.
Chris White
________________________________________________________________
Date: Mon, 23 Aug 1999 16:42:12 +0100
From: Stacy Gillis <stacy.gillis@ukonline.co.uk>
Subject: Re: New members
Whilst not condoning Nicky's comments, I would like to point out that
perhaps she felt that the introduction in question was misplaced. I was
under the impression that this list is concerned with a discussion of the
history and historiography of sexuality. Personal sexual orientation has
not played a part in other introductions and I, for one, would like to
think that I could partake of discussions here without my sexual
preference/personal history being a part of my research/comments. Couldn't
we just move on from this and not get bogged down?
Cheers,
Stacy
---------------------------
Stacy Gillis
stacy.gillis@ukonline.co.uk
http://web.ukonline.co.uk/stacy.gillis/index.htm
The wit of a graduate student is like champagne.
Canadian champagne.
-- Robertson Davies--
________________________________________________________________
From: "Lesley Hall" <lesleyah@primex.co.uk>
Subject: Re: New members
Date: Mon, 23 Aug 1999 19:44:49 +0100
My impression of Nicky's message was that it was posted in error to the
group.
>Personal sexual orientation has
>not played a part in other introductions and I, for one, would like to
>think that I could partake of discussions here without my sexual
>preference/personal history being a part of my research/comments.
I feel that whatever draws individuals to participate in this group is a
valid topic for their personal introduction. Certainly individuals have
indicated their sexual orientation where they feel this is of relevance.
Lesley Hall
lesleyah@primex.co.uk
website http://homepages.primex.co.uk/~lesleyah
________________________________________________________________ From: MZink@webtv.net (M Zink)
Date: Mon, 23 Aug 1999 14:59:50 -0400 (EDT)
Subject: Re: New members
hello,
i am a newbie but, i do have a question, i am in a wheelchair and i
would like to know how many ppl think that it would be hard for them to
have a sexual relationship with a person in a wheelchair, i have only
been in this dang thing since 96 and i really would like to know, not
because i want one myself but i do talk to ppl who are newly in
wheelchairs and i also just want to know?
________________________________________________________________
Subject: Inq. Henning Bech
Date: Mon, 23 Aug 1999 21:03:45 -0500
From: "Michael J. Murphy" <mjmurphy@artsci.wustl.edu>
I wonder if anyone on the list has read Henning Bech's book _When Men
Meet: Homosexuality and Modernity_ (U. Chicago, 1997)? Interested in
comments from other readers.
Best, cheers, tally ho and all that.
Michael J. Murphy, M.A.
Graduate Student, Dept. of Art History and Archaeology
Washington University, St. Louis
mjmurphy@artsci.wustl.edu
********************************
"And remember darling I don't work before 10:30 and never after 4:30 in
the afternoon."
-Norma Desmond to Cecil B. DeMille in _Sunset
Boulevard_
________________________________________________________________
Date: Tue, 24 Aug 1999 13:17:06 +1000
From: Hera Cook <dcoo8738@mail.usyd.edu.au>
Subject: dodgy sexuality
Hi,
Perhaps it would be useful for Nicky to read some theory relevant to the
groups which Donna Larsen belongs. Reading things other than cheap magazine
sensationalism might lead her to be less dismissive of other people's experience.
I am hesitant to suggest any but perhaps Donna might like to.
This might also lead her to be less certain of her own distance from 'the dodgy
sexuality listserve'. For example, harking back to the disucssion of The Sheik,
does she enjoy romances and the dominant/submissive roles enacted therein?
Could people also fill in the subject headings please, it is helpful when tracing
a discussion.
Hera
________________________________________________________________
Date: Tue, 24 Aug 1999 02:33:09 -0700
From: John Baeza <jbaeza@frontiernet.net>
Subject: Info on Albert Moll
Hello,
I am seeking information regarding Albert Moll's Hanbuch der
Sexualwissenschaften (or in english Handbook of Sexual Science ). I am
especially interested to know if this work has ever been translated into
english. I am particulalarly looking for Moll's thoughts on sadism and
what has been termed "necrosadism" in this work. I know the work has
been cited in several english language articles but I am searching for
the exact language from the book.
Any help would be appreciated.
John J. Baeza
________________________________________________________________ Date: Tue, 24 Aug 1999 13:47:42 +0200
From: Gert Hekma <hekma@pscw.uva.nl>
Subject: Re: Inq. Henning Bech
>I wonder if anyone on the list has read Henning Bech's book _When Men
>Meet: Homosexuality and Modernity_ (U. Chicago, 1997)? Interested in
>comments from other readers.
Michael J. Murphy, M.A.
>Graduate Student, Dept. of Art History and Archaeology
>Washington University, St. Louis
>mjmurphy@artsci.wustl.edu
It is a great book, I saw it already widely quoted, and it is positively
reviewed in a recent issue of Thamyris (journal for gay & lesbian, gender,
ethnic studies)
Gert Hekma
I edited with Franz Eder and Lesley Hall the two volumes of Sexual Cultures
in Europe, teach gay studies (in English!) at the University of Amsterdam
and do often "Book Ends" for Sexualities (mass-reviews of sexuality-books).
I am an editor of Thamyris.
My recent work is on contemporary sexual cultures, especially in the
Netherlands and Europe. See the website of gay and lesbian studies
www.pscw.uva.nl/gl for articles of mine on Amsterdam, the Netherlands and
other topics.
I am a bookcollector and a satin fetischist
So I have a copy of Albert Moll's Handbuch der Sexualwissenschaft, will
look for necrosadism. As far as I know the book was not translated, but
even if it was, you have to realize that most translations of German
sexology books into other languages, certainly into English, are not very
reliable.
________________________________________________________________ From: "Chris Willis" <chris@chriswillis.freeserve.co.uk>
Subject: Wheelchairs
Date: Tue, 24 Aug 1999 13:45:47 +0100
Hi!
My personal answer is if I was attracted to the person then I hope I
wouldn't let myself be put off by the wheelchair. Sorry if this is a rather
simplistic way of putting it.
There was a very good article about sexuality and disability in the Guardian
on Friday, which might be of interest to list members it's on-line at:
http://www.newsunlimited.co.uk/g2/story/0,3604,75233,00.html
All the best
Chris
________________________________________________________________ From: MZink@webtv.net (M Zink)
Date: Tue, 24 Aug 1999 08:00:06 -0400 (EDT)
Subject: Re: Wheelchairs
Chris
thank you for your answering my question,do you know you are the only
person that answered it, and the article was a great help, i think i may
include some of the info on my page at
www.angelfire.com/hi2/quickie121
is it just that my question was not that interesting, or is it just that
people find it hard to talk about folks in wheelchairs and sexuallity, i
am one of the most sexual beings that I know, I feel everything, (below
my waist) and i dont know i thought maybe some other people would have
answered my question, i am rather shocked, guess i should not be though
it has been my experience that ppl have a hard time talking to me about
little things let alone sex. Anyway, thanks once again for being the
only one brave enough to reply to my question about sex and wheelchairs
:+)
________________________________________________________________
Date: Tue, 24 Aug 1999 06:37:41 -0700
From: Karen Duder <kduder@UVic.CA>
Subject: Re: Wheelchairs
Hi there. I think that you'll probably receive many more replies as people
come back from summer vacations - or perhaps we're just a little slow on
the uptake! I'm with Chris: it seems to me that it's the individual who's
important. Surely if people are attracted to each other and have the desire
to be together, then a wheelchair is naturally to be factored in but
needn't be a "problem". I see attitudes about wheelchairs and about
individuals using them as more of an encumbrance than wheelchairs
themselves. The largest and most offensive mistake that a lot of people
make is that a person in a wheelchair is devoid of sexual desire. And quite
frankly, if a person couldn't be bothered to get their head around
something which was a really important part of my life - "so long, honey"!
That seems ruthless, probably...
I've attached a copy of an annotated bibliography on sexuality and
disability. Unfortunately I no longer have the URL for the site from which
I downloaded it some time ago, but there should be enough info (names of
authors etc.) in it to make it very traceable via a web search. I believe
that I simply ran "sexuality + disability" in as a search term. I don't
think that the bibliography includes the new Disability Studies Reader,
from Routledge (I think) or a couple of other 1998 & 1999 publications. In
any case, I hope that it will have something of interest to many people on
the list.
If it doesn't translate well into your software, let me know and I'll try
sending it in another format.
Karen Duder
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Karen Duder PhD Programme
Department of History Email kduder@uvic.ca
University of Victoria Dept. Phone (250) 721-7382
P.O. Box 3045 Dept. Fax (250) 721-8772
Victoria, B.C. V8W 3P4
CANADA
"Any measurement must take into account the position of the observer.
There is no such thing as measurement absolute, there is only
measurement relative. Relative to what is an important part of the
question." Jeanette Winterson, _Gut Symmetries_
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
________________________________________________________________
From: MZink@webtv.net (M Zink)
Date: Tue, 24 Aug 1999 10:08:00 -0400 (EDT)
Subject: Re: Wheelchairs
karen,
thank you so much for your responce to my letter, but the information
you sent was i think in java and i have web, and this silly thing wont
work with it, ah, one other thing, do you think you or someone you know
would ask someone out in a wheelchair, and if you did , where would you
put the chair, do you have a big enough car, and if you drive a truck, i
cant get into it, i just wanted to through out somethings to think
about, and if we go somewere do they have handicap ramps and restrooms,
i cant go to ppls houses that have stairs unless you want to carrie me
up them, and i am a big girl and i really dont want a first date to be
carried around anyway, you are sweet to answer my letter, and i really
want more input, i just want people to think about it, how many times
have you or someone you known said dont stair at that person or don't
ask that question, maybe we should ask the questions, that way the vail
will be off and the dark whole i found myself in a few years back would
not be so bad, i went out to a night spot in our town and it is quite
large and i want you to know, and i dont think of myself as a bad
looking person, that no one would talk to me or anying, they made a big
circle around me and it was like void space, and i guess that is what i
mean, would it be hard to think of yourself that way, or would you have
a problem asking someone out. I must say that years back i would have, i
would like to think that i am not vain but i am, and i dont know,
________________________________________________________________
Date: Tue, 24 Aug 1999 07:29:25 -0700
From: Karen Duder <kduder@UVic.CA>
Subject: Re: Wheelchairs
Hi. Ok, here's the bibliography as regular email text. It's a little ugly
in terms of formatting, but it's readable!
These are important questions to raise (and thanks for asking them). And
before anyone on the list should write in and suggest that these sorts of
questions aren't "appropriate" on histsex (the remarks about a recent
posting to the list come to mind), I would venture to suggest that people
examine their reasons for a lack of comfort in trying to answer them. It's
very easy to say, "well, of course it wouldn't be a problem," but one has
to realize that there are many factors to consider, access being a big one.
The car issue is also an important one. I use the buses myself, so it's a
moot point in some respects. Victoria has on all its routes "kneeling"
buses specifically designed for wheelchair and scooter access, so getting
around is annoying but possible. Stairs - got 'em!
Karen
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[SIECUS]
Annotated Bibliographies
Sexuality and Disability
Over the past twenty years, pivotal legislation has gone into effect that
has enabled people with disabilities to gain their rightful place as equal
members of American society. The Rehabilitation Act of 1973, the 1975
Education for All Handicapped Children Act, and the Americans with
Disabilities Act of 1990 have added opportunities for the inclusion and
integration into the community of people of all abilities. With inclusion
and integration come greater opportunities for sexual expression. Thus,
there is a need for greater access to information and educational material
that affirms the sexuality of people of all abilities, including those with
early- and late-onset disabilities; physical, sensory, and mental
disabilities; and disabilities that hinder learning.
SIECUS advocates that all persons, including persons with disabilities,
receive sexuality education, sexual health care, and opportunities for
socializing and sexual expression. This necessitates sexuality education
and training programs for teachers, health care workers, and family members
to help them understand and support the normal sexual development and
behavior of persons with disabilities. Social agencies and health care
delivery systems must develop policies and procedures that will ensure the
provision of services and benefits on an equal basis to all persons without
discrimination because of disability.
This bibliography was prepared by Shelley Ross and Mitchell Tepper, M.P.H.,
Ph.D. candidate, Program in Human Sexuality, Umiversity of Pennsylvania.
----------------------------------------------------------------------------
GENERAL BOOKS
Living and Loving: Information about Sexuality and Intimacy
Arthritis Foundation
This book offers tips for solving problems when arthritis interferes
with sexuality. It includes illustrations of comfortable sexual positions
for individuals with arthritis. 1993, 17 pp. Single copies free from local
chapters; bulk rates available.
Arthritis Foundation, PO Box 19000, Atlanta, GA 30326; 800-283-7800.
Sexuality and Multiple Sclerosis, Third Edition
Michael Barrett
This book covers research findings, communication skills for sexual
enhancement, information resources, and positive approaches to sexual
adjustment with multiple sclerosis. It includes sections specifically for
unmarried individuals, gay men, lesbians, and married couples. It discusses
the effects of medication on sexual function. Also available in French.
1991, 80 pp. Single copies free; orders of multiple copies subject to
postage and handling costs.
Multiple Sclerosis Society of Canada, 250 Bloor Street East, Suite
1000, Toronto, Ontario, Canada M4W 3P9; 416-922-6065.
Learning to Love: A Set of Simple Booklets on Sexuality
Brook Advisory Centres
These five publications provide accurate information about sexuality and
reproductive health for young people with learning disabilities. Titles in
the series are Contraception, From Child to Adult, How a Baby Is Born, Sex
and Making Love, and Health & Infections. 1991, 23 pp. each, £12.95 for the
series, bulk rates available.
Education & Publications Unit, Brook Advisory Centres, 153 A East
Street, London SE17 2SD England; 011-44-71-708-1390.
The Sensuous Heart: Sex after a Heart Attack or Heart Surgery
Suzanne Cambre
This cartoon-style booklet explains the emotional and physical needs of
persons who have had heart attacks or heart surgery. It answers questions
about frequency of sexual activity; suggests comfortable positions; and
covers the effects of alcohol, prescribed drugs, stimulants, and illegal
drugs. 1990, 21 pp., $5.75 plus $1.50 postage and handling.
Pritchett and Hull Associates, 3440 Oakcliff Road NE, Suite 110, Atlanta,
GA 30340-3079; 800-241-4925.
The Baby Challenge: A Handbook on Pregnancy for Women with a Physical
Disability
Mukti Jain Campion
This book describes the impact, effect, and outcome of a range of physical
disabilities on pregnancy and childbirth, and of pregnancy and childbirth
on physical disabilities. It outlines how various disabilities affect
fertility, the role of genetics, implications of medication, remission of
symptoms, precautions to take during pregnancy and labor, possible
interventions during delivery, and what to expect in a postnatal ward. A
resource list accompanies each chapter. The book includes a chapter
specifically geared for health care professionals. 1990, $15.95.
Routledge, Chapman & Hall, 29 West 35th Street, New York, NY 10001;
212-244-3336.
Sexuality and Spinal Cord Injury
Sylvia Eichner McDonald, Willa M. Lloyd, Donna Murphy, and Margaret
Gretchen Russert
The authors explore a number of topics regarding sexuality and reproduction
before and after a spinal cord injury, including the physiology of sexual
response and reproductive health. One chapter outlines the steps
individuals with spinal cord injuries may take to prepare for sexual
activity. Another is devoted to different ways to give hugs from a
wheelchair. There is also a general discussion about sexual attitudes,
relationships, parenthood, contraception, and sexually transmitted
diseases. The book concludes with a list of myths about sexuality and
spinal cord injury and a resource list. 1993, 34 pp., $14.95 plus postage
and handling.
The Spinal Cord Injury Center, Froedtert Memorial Lutheran, 9200 West
Wisconsin Avenue, Milwaukee, WI 53226; 414-259-3657.
Women with Disabilities: Essays in Psychology, Culture, and Politics
Michelle Fine and Adrienne Asch, editors
Drawing on law, social science, folklore, literature, psychoanalytic
theory, and political activism, the contributers to this volume describe
the experience of women with disabilities. The essays consider the impact
of social class, race, the age at which disability occurs, and sexual
orientation on the disabled woman's self-esteem, as well as on her life
options. Topics include sex roles and culture, bodies and images, the
constructions of gender and disability, and women with disabilities in
relationships. 1988, 347 pp., $19.95.
Temple University Press, University Service Building, Room 305, Broad and
Oxford Streets, Philadelphia, PA 19122; 215-204-8787.
Past Due: A Story of Disability, Pregnancy, and Birth
Anne Finger
The author, who was disabled by polio during childhood, explores the
complexities of disability and reproductive rights through an account of
her pregnancy and home birth experience. Disability rights, motherhood, and
reproductive freedom are among the issues she raises. 1990, 200 pp., $10.95.
The Seal Press, 3131 Western Avenue, Suite 410, Seattle, WA 98121-1028;
206-283-7844.
Love: Where to Find It, How to Keep It
Elle Friedman Becker
This self-help book describes ways for people with disabilities to meet and
discusses communication skills, dating, and terminating relationships. It
is written from the personal experiences and professional observations of a
single woman with an acquired disability who works as a counseling
psychologist. 1991, 104 pp., $6.95 plus $1.25 postage and handling. Accent
Special Publications, Cheever Publishing, PO Box 700, Bloomington, IL
61702; 309-378-2961.
Marriage and Disability
Betty Garee and Raymond Cheever, editors
In this collection of articles from ACCENT magazine, people with a variety
of physical disabilities tell how they met and married, and discuss the
happy, successful lives they are living with their spouses. 1992, 80 pp.,
$7.95.
Accent Special Publications, Cheever Publishing, PO Box 700, Bloomington,
IL 61702; 309-378-2961.
Reproductive Issues for Persons with Physical Disabilities
Florence P. Haseltine, Sandra S. Cole, and David B. Gray, editors This
resource features contributions from both consumers with disabilities and
health professionals from a variety of backgrounds. Chapters focus on
dispelling myths about sexuality and disability and exploring sexual issues
that challenge people with disabilities. Topics include basic information
about congenital and acquired physical disabilities, reproductive rights
and opportunities, sexual dysfunctions, sexually transmitted diseases,
reproductive physiology, sexual development, health care needs, fertility,
birth control, adoptions, pregnancy, labor and delivery, and parenthood.
Personal stories of people with disabilities appear throughout the book,
and various clinical and policy issues are discussed. 1993, 400 pp., $33.00.
Paul H. Brookes Publishing, PO Box 10624, Baltimore, MD 21285-0624;
800-638-3775.
Sex and Back Pain Lauren Andrew Hebert
A physical therapist describes various types of back pain and sexual
positions for maximum comfort. Line drawings and photographs illustrate
recommended exercises and sexual positions for people who experience back
pain. All individuals in the photographs are clothed. In an accompanying
video, a partially clothed man and woman demonstrate the various sexual
positions described in the book. Book: 1992, 121 pp., $12.95. Video: 1993,
21 min., $149.00 (comes with three 21-page professional manuals; additional
manuals are available for $6.00 each).
IMPACC, 1 Washington Street, PO Box 1247, Greenville, ME 04441;
800-762-7720; from outside the United States, 207-695-3354.
Understanding and Expressing Sexuality: Responsible Choices for Individuals
with Developmental Disabilities
Rosalyn Kramer Monat-Haller
The author draws on her experience in counseling to discuss sexuality
issues for people with developmental disabilities. Topics include anatomy
and physiology, physical maturation, contraception, marriage, parenthood,
AIDS, sexually transmitted diseases, and sexual exploitation and abuse. The
book includes a bibliography, resource list, and therapeutic intervention
tools. The author conducts in-service training and workshops on this book.
1992, 240 pp., $26.00 plus $2.50 postage and handling. Residents of South
Carolina add 5 percent sales tax.
Paul H. Brookes Publishing. Place orders through Rosalyn Kramer
Monat-Haller, PO Box 2103, Summerville, SC 29484; 803-873-6935.
Enabling Romance: A Guide to Love, Sex, and Relationships for the Disabled
(And People Who Care about Them)
Ken Kroll and Erica Levy Klein
This book contains information on the sexual abilities and limitations
of amputees and individuals with spinal cord injuries, multiple sclerosis,
blindness, hearing impairments, and neuromuscular disorders. It includes
guidelines for overcoming stereotypes and offers advice on family planning,
safer sex, and establishing intimacy. 1992, 209 pp., $22.50.
Harmony Books/Crown Publishers, 201 East 50th Street, New York, NY 10022;
800-733-3000.
Sexual Rehabilitation of the Spinal-Cord-Injured Patient
J. F. J. Leyson, editor
Twenty-eight experts in the fields of sexuality, sexual dysfunction, and
spinal cord injury contributed to this practical guide to the management of
every type of sexual dysfunction arising from spinal cord injury. The book
also explores fertility, pregnancy, and sexual orientaiton among
individuals with spinal cord injury. 1991, 560 pp., $89.50.
Humana Press, 999 Riverview Drive, Suite 208, Totowa, NJ 07512; 201-256-1699.
Survivor: For People with Developmental Disabilities Who Have Been Sexually
Assaulted
Los Angeles Commission on Assaults against Women
This publication is made up of two spiral-bound booklets. Booklet 1 is
written for individuals with minimal reading levels, to be read with the
assistance of a teacher or parent. Booklet 2 is designed for parents,
teachers, advocates, and others. 1986, single copies free, $1.50 postage
and handling.
Los Angeles Commission on Assaults against Women, 6043 Hollywood Boulevard,
Suite 200, Los Angeles, CA 90028; 213-462-1281.
Finding Love and Intimacy
Robert Mauro
>From the editor and publisher of PeopleNet, the personals newsletter for
unmarried persons with disabilities, comes this compilation of essays,
poems, short stories, and book reviews on love, relationships, and
sexuality. Topics include dealing with protective parents, arranging dates,
and coping with shyness. 1994, 190 pp., $8.95. Accent Special Publications,
Cheever Publishing, PO Box 700, Bloomington, IL 61702; 309-378-2961.
A Guide to Bladder Cancer, Urostomy and Impotence
Roni Olsen
This book offers guidance to people who have recently received a diagnosis
of bladder cancer or who are contemplating a urinary diversion (or an
ostomy of any type). The author shares her husband's experience with
bladder cancer and the results of her own extensive research. 1994, 140
pp., $6.95 plus $1.50 postage and handling. Highline Editions, 6400
Southwood Drive, Littleton, CO 80121; 303-798-8281.
Smooth Sailing into the Next Generation: The Causes and Prevention of
Mental Retardation
Diane Plumridge and Judith Hylton
This manual defines mental retardation, discusses its known causes, and
outlines several discussion points and possible choices one might make that
could influence the risk of producing children with a cognitive disability.
Personal responsibility is emphasized, along with the importance of
planning pregnancy and parenthood within a lifestyle of mature behavior.
1989, 139 pp., 19.95 plus $2.00 postage and handling, bulk rates available.
R & E Publishers, 468 Auzerais Avenue, Suite A, San Jose, CA 95126;
408-866-6303.
The Sensuous Wheeler, Sexual Adjustment for the Spinal Cord Injured Barry Rabin
This sexuality guide for men and women with spinal cord injuries covers
sexual response, adjustment, and functioning. It also outlines ideas for
attracting a partner, preparing for sexual activity, sexual positions, and
nondemand pleasure techniques. 1980, 153 pp., $14.95 plus $3.00 postage and
handling.
New Mobility, Miramar Communications, PO Box 8987, Malibu, CA 90265-8987;
800-543-4116, ext. 454.
The Right to Control What Happens to Your Body: A Straightforward Guide to
Issues of Sexuality & Sexual Abuse
The Roeher Institute
This easy-to-read, large-print book discusses the risk and incidence of
sexual abuse of people with mental disabilities. It includes definitions of
abuse and assault, as well as suggesting ways of recognizing, treating, and
preventing sexual abuse. This guide includes a glossary and lists of
referral sources and legal resources. 1991, 29 pp., $7.00 (Canadian) plus
15 percent postage and handling.
The Roeher Institute, Kinsmen Building, York University, 4700 Keele Street,
North York, Ontario, Canada M3J 1P3; 416-661-9611.
Sexual Abuse Prevention Programs and Mental Handicap: A Report Prepared by
the G. Allan Roeher Institute
The Roeher Institute
This Canadian study analyzes several prevention programs in terms of their
suitability or adaptability for use with people who have a mental
impairment. It explores what information is appropriate and required in a
prevention program that deals with people with a disability, summarizes
findings and general trends across programs studied, and presents
recommendations for future development. 1989, 70 pp., $6.00 (Canadian) plus
15 percent postage and handling.
The Roeher Institute, Kinsmen Building, York University, 4700 Keele Street,
North York, Ontario, Canada M3J 1P3; 416-661-9611.
Vulnerable: Sexual Abuse and People with an Intellectual Handicap
The Roeher Institute
This study addresses the problems of society's denial of sexual feelings
and of sexual abuse among persons with intellectual disabilities, the
prevalence of sexual abuse among such individuals, and risk factors of
developmental disability as related to sexual abuse. It discusses treatment
and effects of abuse, accessibility of services, prevention, legal issues,
and sex offenders who have an intellectual disability. 1989, 115 pp.,
$14.00 Canadian plus 15 percent postage and handling.
The Roeher Institute, Kinsmen Building, York University, 4700 Keele Street,
North York, Ontario, Canada M3J 1P3; 416-661-9611.
Mother-to-Be: Guide to Pregnancy and Birth for Women with Disabilities
Judith Rogers and Molleen Matsumura
This book discusses all aspects of pregnancy in the context of disability,
from making the decision to have a child to the problems that women with
disabilities confront after giving birth. It begins with interviews with
thirty-six women who have a range of disabilities, including cerebral
palsy, lupus, ataxia, multiple sclerosis, spina bifida, postpolio syndrome,
and arthritis. Other chapters discuss nutrition, exercise, labor, and
delivery. Appendices include dietary plans, a glossary, an extensive index,
and lists of important resource organizations and suggested reading
materials. 1991, 410 pp., $24.95 plus $4.00 postage and handling.
Demos Publications, 386 Park Avenue South, Suite 201, New York, NY 10016;
212-683-0072.
The Illustrated Guide to Better Sex for People with Chronic Pain Robert W.
Rothrock and Gabriella D'Amore
This self-help booklet provides information about frequent problems that
interfere with sexual enjoyment for individuals who suffer from chronic
pain and suggests simple, basic solutions. It includes six illustrations
showing comfortable sexual positions for persons with
various pain disorders, and stresses the importance of communication
between partners. 1991, 37 pp., $8.95 plus $3.00 postage and handling, bulk
prices available.
R. Rothrock & G. D'Amore, 201 Woolston Drive, PO Box 1355, Morrisville, PA
19067-0325; 215-736-1266.
Sexual Concerns When Illness or Disability Strikes
Carol Sandowski
This book discusses the possible effects of various medical conditions
(arthritis, diabetes, spinal cord injury, alcoholism) on sexual
functioning, relationships, self-esteem, and communication. The author
explores treatments for sexual dysfunction. 1989, 281 pp., $56.75 plus
$5.50 postage and handling.
Charles C. Thomas Publisher, 2600 South First Street, Springfield, IL
62794-9265; 217-789-8980, 800-258-8980.
Sexuality & Cancer: For the Woman Who Has Cancer and Her Partner Leslie R.
Schover
This booklet offers information about cancer and female sexuality.
Information includes the effects of cancer and treatment on sexuality, keys
to staying sexually healthy during cancer treatment, how to seek
professional help, and a list of resources. 1991, 40 pp., free.
The American Cancer Society, New York, NY. All orders are taken by local
chapters; consult your local telephone directory.
Growing Up: A Social and Sexual Education Picture Book for Young People
with Mental Retardation
Victor Shea and Betty Gordon
This book is designed to be read to students ages twelve and older who have
moderate to severe mental impairments, although many parts may be suitable
for younger students with mild learning problems. The book is looseleaf,
providing basic information and illustrations on the right, and ideas for
discussion and further learning activities on the left. This format allows
for tailoring the program to individual needs. 1991, 147 pp., $22.00 plus
$3.00 postage and handling.
Clinical Center for the Study of Development and Learning Library, UNC-CH,
BSRC, CB#7255, Chapel Hill, NC 27599; 919-966-5171.
Changes in You: A Clearly Illustrated, Simply Worded Explanation of the
Changes of Puberty for Boys
Changes in You: A Clearly Illustrated, Simply Worded Explanation of the
Changes of Puberty for Girls
Peggy C. Siegel
These books explain changes of puberty in a simple, positive manner. They
cover such topics as physical development, menstruation, erections,
masturbation, wet dreams, and sexual abuse prevention. A parent guide
accompanies each book. 1994, 47 pp. each, $8.95 each. Family Life Education
Associates, PO Box 7466, Richmond, VA 23221; 804-262-0531.
Fact Sheet: HIV/AIDS Prevention for People with Disabilities
Sharon Wachsler
This comprehensive fact sheet covers HIV/AIDS prevention and testing
information, and includes a list of resources and agencies. 1991, 20 pp.,
single copies free, multiple copies $1.00 each for Massachusetts residents
and $2.00 each for others.
Information Center for Individuals with Disabilities, Fort Point Place,
27-43 Wormwood Street, Boston, MA 02210-1606; 617-727-5540; TDD
617-345-9743.
Intimacy and Disability
Barbara F. Waxman, Judi Levin, and June Isaacson Kailes
Written by and for individuals with disabilities, this guide assists people
in overcoming barriers to developing intimate relationships. Topics include
self-image, body image, sexuality, dating, intimacy, contraception, and
sexual abuse. The book includes a resource list.
1982, 110 pp., $5.50.
National Rehabilitation Information Center, 8455 Colesville Road, Suite
935, Silver Spring, MD 20910-3319; 800-346-2742.
Signs of Sexual Behavior: An Introduction to Some Sex-related Vocabulary in
American Sign Language
James Woodward
This introduction to sexuality-related American Sign Language vocabulary
offers clear illustrations of more than 130 signs. Comprehensive
explanations and notes on derivation are included. A video illustrating the
signs is also available. Book: 1993, 81 pp., $7.95. Video: 1993, 30 min.,
$24.95. Book and video: $29.95.
T.J. Publishers, 817 Silver Spring Avenue, Silver Spring, MD 20910,
301-585-4440.
BOOKS FOR PARENTS
HIV & AIDS Prevention Guide for Parents
The Arc
Developed to assist parents and caregivers in talking about HIV/AIDS with
their children who have developmental or learning disabilities, this guide
includes illustrations, resource lists, and position statements. 1991, 14
pp., 1-9 copies, $3.50 each; 10-29 copies, $2.50 each; 30 or more copies,
$1.50 each.
Publications, National Headquarters of the Arc, PO Box 1047, Arlington, TX
76004; 817-261-6003.
Sexuality and People with Intellectual Disability
Lydia Fegan, Anne Rauch, and Wendy McCarthy
This book candidly discusses sexuality and the attitudes of both
individuals with intellectual disabilities and their caregivers. Sample
dialogues and case situations, discussion of sexual rights for people with
intellectual disabilities, and policy guidelines for organizations also are
included. 1993, 144 pp., $30.00.
Paul H. Brookes Publishing, PO Box 10624, Baltimore, MD 21285-0624;
410-337-9580, 800-638-3775.
Shared Feelings: A Parent's Guide to Sexuality Education for Children,
Adolescents, and Adults Who Have a Mental Handicap
Diane Maksym
This book is intended to help parents of children with mental impairments
learn how to teach their sons and daughters about relationships and
sexuality. A parent guide includes tips for facilitating support networks,
goal setting, and working in groups. Outlines for seven meetings are
included. 1990, 181 pp. Parent guide: $16.00. Discussion guide: $14.00
(Canadian) plus 15 percent postage and handling.
The Roeher Institute, Kinsmen Building, York University, 4700 Keele
Street, North York, Ontario, Canada M3J 1P3; 416-661-9611.
How to Thrive, Not Just Survive: A Guide to Developing Independent Life
Skills for Blind and Visually Impaired Children and Youth
Rose-Marie Swallow and Kathleen Mary Huebner, editors
This book is a guide for parents, teachers, and others involved in helping
children with visual impairments develop skills for daily living. Topics
include sexuality education, motor development, personal hygiene and
grooming, clothing selection, self-esteem, social behavior, communication,
and low-vision devices. 1987, 93 pp., $16.95 plus $3.50 postage and
handling.
American Foundation for the Blind, c/o American Book Center, Brooklyn
Navy Yard, Building 3, Brooklyn, NY 11205; 718-852-9873.
An Easy Guide for Caring Parents: Sexuality and Socialization-A Book
for Parents of People with Mental Handicaps
Lynn McKee and Virginia Blacklidge
This book addresses the social needs of children with mental
impairments and other developmental disabilities. It discusses the crucial
role of parents in their children's sexuality education and contains a
comprehensive discussion of sexual development, addressing topics such as
growing up, responsible sexual behavior, masturbation, social life, sexual
orientation, fertility and birth control, sexual abuse, and marriage. 1986,
56 pp., $7.25, bulk rates available. Planned Parenthood/Shasta-Diablo, 2185
Pacheco Street, Concord, CA 94520; 510-676-0505.
BOOKS FOR PROFESSIONALS
The HIV Guide: Resources for Board Members and Administrators
The Arc
This practical guide is intended to help local and state chapter executives
develop and adopt policies and procedures necessary to
address HIV/AIDS issues with staff, consumers, and volunteers. 1991, 48
pp., $6.00.
Publications, National Headquarters of the Arc, PO Box 1047, Arlington, TX
76004; 817-261-6003.
Summary of the National Forum on HIV/AIDS Prevention Education for
Children and Youth with Special Needs
Association for the Advancement of Health Education (AAHE)
This report of an assessment of HIV/AIDS prevention education for special
education students summarizes findings, presents conclusions and
recommendations, and includes a reading list. 1989, 38 pp., single copies
free.
Association for the Advancement of Health Education (AAHE), 1900
Association Drive, Reston, VA 22091; 703-476-3437.
The Sexual Assault Survivor's Handbook for People with Developmental
Disabilities and Their Advocates
Norma J. Baladerian
This book can be used as a guide and support after a sexual assault of an
individual with a developmental disability. It walks the reader through the
events following an assault, and provides guidelines for counseling
survivors and their families. The book can also be used to teach
professionals about how to prevent the sexual assault of people with
developmental disabilities. 1991, 34 pp., $11.95 plus $2.50 postage and
handling.
R & E Publishers, 468 Auzerais Avenue, Suite A, San Jose, CA 95126;
408-866-6303.
HIV Infection and Developmental Disabilities: A Resource for Service
Providers
Allen C. Crocker, Herbert J. Cohen, and Theodore A. Kastner, editors This
text looks at the medical, social, legal, and educational issues involved
in providing appropriate HIV-related services to people with developmental
disabilities. It includes discussion of the developmental needs of children
and youth with congenital and acquired HIV infection, special concerns of
staff, and policy considerations. 1992, 320 pp., $47.00.
Paul H. Brookes Publishing, PO Box 10624, Baltimore, MD 21285-0624;
410-337-9580.
Socialization and Sexuality: A Comprehensive Training Guide for
Professionals Helping People with Disabilities that Hinder Learning
Winifred Kempton
This guide outlines a sexuality education course for persons with
developmental disabilities. It describes teaching strategies that have
proven successful with such individuals and details the process of training
professionals to become sexuality educators for students with cognitive
disabilities. A list of print, video, and multimedia resources is included.
1993, 348 pp., $39.95.
James Stanfield Company, PO Box 41058, Santa Barbara, CA 93140;
800-421-6534. Or Planned Parenthood of Southeast Pennsylvania, 1144
Locust Street, Philadelphia, PA 19107-5740; 215-351-5590.
Teaching Persons with Mental Retardation about Sexuality and Relationships
June Kogut and Susan Vilardo
This manual offers educators of persons with mental retardation guidance
for the development and implementation of sexuality education programs. The
authors are sexuality educators for Planned Parenthood of Connecticut.
1994, $49.95.
Publications Department, Planned Parenthood of Connecticut, 129 Whitney
Avenue, New Haven, CT 06510; 203-865-5158.
Sexuality and the Mentally Retarded: A Clinical and Therapeutic Guidebook
Rosalyn Kramer Monat-Haller
This guide to sexuality counseling and education for individuals with
developmental disabilities presents ethical challenges, suggestions, and
ideas for debate. It covers the role of sexuality counseling, the
development of healthy psychosocial and sexual attitudes, and public
relations for sexuality education and counseling. The author also provides
in-service training and workshops on this book. 1982, 150 pp., $21.50 plus
$2.50 postage and handling. Residents of South Carolina add 5 percent sales
tax.
College Hill Press. Place orders through Rosalyn Kramer Monat-Haller, PO
Box 2103, Summerville, SC 29484, 803-873-6935.
Barrier Free: Serving Young Women with Disabilities
Linda Marks and Harilyn Rousso
This training manual for groups that provide services to teenagers with
physical or sensory disabilities examines some important issues that young
women with such disabilities face, including career exploration,
independent living, and sexuality. 1991, 52 pp., $8.00.
Education Development Center, Women's Educational Equity Act Publishing
Center, 55 Chapel Street, Newton, MA 02158-1060; 800-225-3088, 617-969-7100.
Choices: A Guide to Sex Counseling with Physically Disabled Adults Maureen
E. Neistadt and Maureen Freda
Written for rehabilitation professionals who provide sexuality counseling,
this book contains guidelines for limited sexuality counseling and examines
issues of intimacy and communication, as well as the sexual response cycle.
This book discusses functional and sexual difficulties caused by
disabilities and the impact of disability on social issues such as privacy,
dating, marriage, and childbearing. Reading and resource lists are
included. 1987, 132 pp., $14.50. Robert E. Krieger Publishing, PO Box 9542,
Melbourne, FL 32902-9542; 407-724-9542.
No More Victims: Addressing the Sexual Abuse of People with a Mental Handicap
The Roeher Institute
This series of four manuals can be used by police, social workers,
counselors, families, and members of the legal community concerned about
the sexual abuse of people with a mental disability. The series explores
factors that put people with mental impairments at risk of sexual abuse,
and discusses detection, appropriate responses, and prevention. Each manual
includes a two-day training curriculum. 1992, $15.00 per manual.
The Roeher Institute, Kinsmen Building, York University, 4700 Keele Street,
North York, Ontario, Canada M3J 1P3; 416-661-9611.
Sexuality and Chronic Illness: A Comprehensive Approach
Leslie R. Schover and Soren Buus Jensen
Using an integrative biopsychosocial approach, this volume reviews basic
skills needed to comfortably discuss sexuality with chronically ill
patients, assess sexual problems through both psychological and
medical approaches, and create a systematic treatment plan. 1988, 347
pp., $47.50 plus $3.50 postage and handling.
Guilford Publications, 72 Spring Street, New York, NY 10012; 800-365-7006.
Violence and Abuse in the Lives of People with Disabilities: The End of
Silent Acceptance?
Dick Sobsey
This guide to understanding and preventing abuse includes accounts of abuse
from the perspectives of both victims and offenders, a conceptual framework
for understanding the nature of abuse and why it occurs, and practical
strategies for abuse detection and prevention. Part 1 is devoted to
understanding abuse and includes a section on sexual abuse and assault.
Part 2 focuses on abuse prevention and discusses the importance of
sexuality education-as well as sexual abuse prevention programs-in the
prevention of sexual abuse. An annotated list of individuals and
organizations is included. 1994, 480 pp., $27.00.
Paul H. Brookes, PO Box 10624, Baltimore, MD 21285-0624; 410-337-9580.
Disability, Sexuality, and Abuse: An Annotated Bibliography
Dick Sobsey, Don Wells, Diane Pyper, and Beth Reimer-Heck
Containing over 1,100 entries, this comprehensive reference book brings
together literature from a wide range of disciplines relevant to the sexual
abuse, assault, and exploitation of persons with disabilities. It includes
research studies, position papers, program descriptions, clinical reports,
and media accounts. 1991, 208 pp., $26.00.
Paul H. Brookes Publishing, PO Box 10624, Baltimore, MD 21285-0624;
410-337-9580.
CURRICULA
Not a Child Anymore
Brook Advisory Centres
This twelve-module training program designed for use with young adults with
mental impairment covers topics such as human relationships, anatomy,
physiological development, reproduction, pregnancy and childbirth, child
care, sexual relationships, contraception and sexually transmitted
diseases. Each module is self-contained, enabling presenters to follow the
interest and needs of the group. A teacher manual, evaluation kit,
illustrations, flip folder of the human body, and fabric kits to make
anatomically correct three-dimensional models are included. 1991, £189.00
for complete program.
Brook Advisory Centres, Education & Publications Unit, 153A East
Street, London SE17 2SD England; 011-44-71-708-1390.
CIRCLES: A Multi-media Package to Aid in the Development of Appropriate
Social/Sexual Behavior in the Developmentally Disabled Individual Marklyn
Champagne and Leslie Walker-Hirsch
This three-part series includes curricula, videos, photos, wall chart, and
discussion guide. CIRCLES I deals with intimacy and relationships, and
includes twelve live-action videos. CIRCLES II deals with sexual abuse
prevention. CIRCLES III covers sexually transmitted diseases, including
HIV/AIDS. CIRCLES I (revised): 1993, $599.00. CIRCLES II: 1987, $399.00.
CIRCLES III: 1988, $399.00. Discounts available for sets.
James Stanfield Company, PO Box 41058, Santa Barbara, CA 93140;
800-421-6534.
Janet's Got Her Period
Judi Gray and Jitka Jilich
This curriculum for girls and young women with severe developmental
disabilities, consisting of a video and an illustrated storybook with
full-color photographs, tells the story of a young girl who learns
menstrual self-care from her mother and sister. The program includes a
detailed task analysis of behaviors required for using sanitary pads. This
curriculum is suitable for home instruction. 1990. Guidelines: 40
pp. Storybook: 24 pp. Pictograph chart and twenty-four laminated pictograph
cards: $279.00.
James Stanfield Company, PO Box 41058, Santa Barbara, CA 93140; 800-421-6534.
Being Sexual: An Illustrated Series on Sexuality and Relationships Dave
Hingsburger and Susan Ludwig; illustrated by James F. Whittingham This
clearly written and richly illustrated sixteen-book series presents
important information about sexuality and relationships for
adolescents and adults with developmental disabilities or problems with
literacy, learning, or communication. The books address the personal
feelings, individual rights, and social expectations associated with a
variety of sexuality-related topics. Key concepts and definitions on each
page are translated into Blissymbols, with new symbols highlighted. 1993,
$60.00 for individuals, $80.00 for organizations. Sex Information &
Education Council of Canada, 850 Coxwell Avenue, East York, Ontario, Canada
M4C 5RI; 416-466-5304.
SAFE: Stopping AIDS through Functional Education
Judith Hylton
This comprehensive instructional package for use with adolescents and
adults with developmental or learning disabilities contains guidelines for
developing a comprehensive HIV/AIDS prevention program. It includes videos,
brochures, slides, and illustrations. 1992, 200 pp., $75.00. Child
Development and Rehabilitation Center, CDRC/OHSU, Publications Department,
PO Box 574, Portland, OR 97207-0574; 503-494-8699. Or Publications,
National Headquarters of the Arc, PO Box 1047, Arlington, TX, 76004;
817-261-6003.
Life Horizons I & II
Winifred Kempton
This two-part curriculum, consisting of slides and instructor handbooks, is
a revised version of Sexuality and the Mentally Handicapped. Part 1 (over
500 slides) discusses anatomy, puberty, reproduction, contraception, and
HIV/AIDS. Part 2 (over 600 slides) deals with the psychosocial aspects of
sexuality, including self-esteem; moral, legal, and social issues; dating;
marriage; parenthood; and sexual abuse. 1988, $399.00 each, $699.00 for
both. James Stanfield Company, PO Box 41058, Santa Barbara, CA 93140;
800-421-6534.
Sex Education for Persons with Disabilities that Hinder Learning: A
Teacher's Guide
Winifred Kempton and Frank Caparulo
This resource for educators covers effective techniques and strategies for
teaching sexuality education to people with cognitive disabilities. The
book outlines the major components of a comprehensive sexuality program. It
includes an extensive bibliography. 1989, 200 pp., $29.95 plus 15 percent
postage and handling.
James Stanfield Company, PO Box 41058, Santa Barbara, CA 93140; 800-421-6534.
No-Go-Tell!: Protection Curriculum for Young Children with Special Needs
Elisabeth J. Krents and Dale Special Atkins (second edition) Elisabeth J.
Krents and Shella Brenner (curriculum guide, revised edition)
This curriculum, made up of seventy-six illustrated teaching panels, deals
with preventing abuse of children in preschool and early elementary school
who have communication and language limitations. It features guidelines for
developing a school child abuse policy and includes sections on parental
involvement, curriculum implementation, and up-to-date information on
physical and sexual abuse research. The curriculum is divided into three
sections: interpersonal relationships, appropriate touch, and inappropriate
touch. Personal safety issues are illustrated through the use of
black-and-white drawings. Role-play exercises are included. This curriculum
avoids "stranger-danger"
messages. The complete program includes two dolls. 1991, 69 pp. plus
seventy-six teaching panels, $299.00 ($199.00 without dolls). James
Stanfield Company, PO Box 41058, Santa Barbara, CA 93140, 800-421-6534.
Human Sexuality: A Portfolio for Persons with Developmental Disabilities,
Second Edition
Victoria Livingston and Mary E. Knapp
This portfolio can be used by any group in need of basic knowledge about
human sexuality. It consists of ten large color drawings
illustrating anatomy and sexual functions, discussion suggestions, and a
script for the teacher printed on the back of each plate. 1991, $24.95 plus
15 percent postage and handling.
Bookstore, Planned Parenthood of Seattle-King County, 2211 East Madison,
Seattle, WA 98112-5397; 206-328-7716.
Sexuality: A Curriculum for Individuals Who Have Difficulty with
Traditional Learning Methods Susan Ludwig Developed by a teacher of
individuals with developmental disabilities, this manual includes topics on
feelings, self-esteem, anatomy, puberty, reproduction, social behavior,
contraception, and sexually transmitted diseases. Each section presents
information on several levels, from simple and concrete to more difficult
and abstract, and includes activities that can be adapted to students'
prior knowledge and the individual needs of the group. This curriculum
includes sessions for parents and caregivers. 1989, 145 pp., $38.00
(Canadian).
The Regional Municipality of York Public Health, Community Health Nursing,
4261 Highway 7 East, Suite 202, Unionville, Ontario, Canada L3R 9W6;
905-940-1333.
Positive Approaches: A Sexuality Guide for Teaching Developmentally
Disabled Persons
Lisa Maurer
This guide provides a format for teachers, parents, and caregivers to
assist persons with developmental disabilities in acquiring knowledge and
skills for understanding and expressing their individual sexuality in a
safe and appropriate manner. Background information is coupled with a
variety of exercises, fact sheets, and programs concerning anatomy,
physiology, contraception, relationships, pregnancy, and parenthood. 1991,
91 pp., $40.00.
Education Department, Planned Parenthood of Delaware, 625 Shipley Street,
Wilmington, DE 19801; 302-655-7293.
Signs for Sexuality: A Resource Manual for Deaf and Hard of Hearing
Individuals, Their Families, and Professionals, Second Edition
Marlyn Minkin and Laurie Rosen-Ritt
This curriculum contains information on sexual abuse, sexually transmitted
diseases, and reproductive health, with more than 600 photographs to
illustrate 250 vocabulary terms associated with sexuality. Appendices
include contraception information and anatomical drawings. 1991, $24.95
plus 15 percent postage and handling. Bookstore, Planned Parenthood of
Seattle-King County, 2211 East Madison, Seattle, WA 98112-5397;
206-328-7716.
The Project Action Curriculum: Sexual Assault Awareness for People with
Disabilities
Carolyn S. Paige, Sarah Wright, and Melanie Schaefer
This curriculum is designed for use with persons who have mild to moderate
cognitive disabilities. Sections 1-4 give background information on sexual
assault, sexuality, and disability, and present a variety of strategies and
suggestions for teaching sexual assault awareness. Sections 5-9 make up the
body of the curriculum, covering different kinds of touching, sexual
exploitation, and disclosure. Sections 10-15 include behavior assessment
forms, role-plays, case studies, a glossary, body maps, a caregiver packet,
and values exploration exercises for staff. 1991, 128 pp., $99.95 plus $5.00
postage and handling.
Seattle Rape Relief, 1905 South Jackson, Seattle, WA 98144; 206-325-5531
(TTY at same number).
Changes in You: An Introduction to Sexual Education through an
Understanding of Puberty
Peggy Siegel
This family life education program for young people with cognitive
disabilities is intended to help students in grades 4-9 develop strong,
positive feelings about themselves as they make the transition into
puberty. The complete program includes seventy-three laminated teaching
pictures; illustrated student manuals; parent guides; and a curriculum
guide with teaching activities, objectives, lesson plans, and tests. 1991,
$299.00.
James Stanfield Company, PO Box 41058, Santa Barbara, CA 93140; 800-421-6534.
The Family Education Program Manual
Katherine Simpson, editor
This manual includes complete curricula for teaching sexuality,
self-esteem, and abuse prevention to students with developmental and
learning disabilities. Areas covered include working with schools, setting
up educational plans, working with parents, and dealing with teachers'
concerns. The manual contains training outlines and resources, a complete
section on audiovisual instruction, reproducible teaching graphics, and
pretest and posttest evaluations. 1990, 300 pp., $35.00.
Planned Parenthood/Shasta-Diablo, 2185 Pacheco Street, Concord, CA 94520;
510-676-0505.
LIFEFACTS: Essential Information about Life for Persons with Special Needs
James Stanfield Company
Of these seven programs designed to provide health education professionals
with essential materials and information to teach adolescents and adults
with developmental and learning disabilities, three specifically address
sexuality: AIDS (1991), Sexuality (1990), and Sexual Abuse Prevention
(1990). Each curriculum is designed to enable educators to choose the
appropriate level of presentation, depending on students' needs and
community attitudes. Each kit includes a curriculum guide, laminated
pictures and 35mm slides, worksheets, and evaluation material. 1991,
$199.00 each, $893.00 for the set. Discount rates available for
combinations of curricula.
James Stanfield Company, PO Box 41058, Santa Barbara, CA 93140; 800-421-6534.
Special Education: Secondary F.L.A.S.H. (Family Life and Sexual Health): A
Curriculum for 5th through 10th Grades
Jane Stangle
This comprehensive program is designed to provide practical teaching
experiences and functional tools to adolescents in special education
programs. It addresses the physical, emotional, and safety aspects of
sexuality education; encourages parent and family involvement; and includes
a section on preparing community-based sexuality education programs. Lesson
plans cover relationships, communication, avoiding exploitation, anatomy,
reproduction, sexually transmitted diseases, and AIDS. The curriculum
includes resource lists, guidelines for answering students' questions,
recommended audiovisuals, teacher preparation suggestions, and masters for
all transparencies and student handouts. 1991, 301 pp., $40.00 plus 10
percent postage and handling.
Family Planning Publications, Seattle-King County Department of Public
Health, 110 Prefontaine Place South, #500, Seattle, WA 98104; 206-296-4672.
The GYN Exam Handbook: An Illustrated Guide to the Gynecological
Examination for Women with Special Needs
Maria Olivia Taylor
This curriculum takes students through the process of a routine gynecologic
examination and provides the opportunity to understand the procedure with
comfort and confidence, while easing anxiety and promoting responsible
female health care. The program includes an illustrated handbook and a
two-part video. Part 1 is an uninterrupted demonstration of the
examination. Part 2 discusses scheduling an appointment, the breast
examination, and the pelvic examination. 1991, 103 pp., two videos, $129.00.
James Stanfield Company, PO Box 41058, Santa Barbara, CA 93140;
800-421-6534.
JOURNALS/NEWSLETTERS
Connections: The Newsletter of the National Center for Youth with
Disabilities
National Center for Youth with Disabilities, University of Minnesota, Box
721, 420 Delaware Street SE, Minneapolis, MN 55455-0392; 800-333-6293.
CYDLINE Reviews: Issues in Sexuality for Adolescents with Chronic
Illness and Disabilities
National Center for Youth with Disabilities, University of Minnesota, Box
721, 420 Delaware Street SE, Minneapolis, MN 55455-0392; 800-333-6293.
Disability, Pregnancy and Parenthood International
Auburn Press, 9954 South Walnut Terrace, #201, Palos Hills, IL 60465.
The Disability Rag & ReSource
The Disability Rag & ReSource, PO Box 145, Louisville, KY 40201;
502-459-5343 (phone, fax, TDD).
It's Okay!: Adults Write about Living and Loving with a Disability Phoenix
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Date: Tue, 24 Aug 1999 07:30:48 -0700 (PDT)
From: "A. G. McLaren" <amclaren@UVic.CA>
Subject: Re: Info on Albert Moll
I don't think there is an English translation of Moll. At least neither
the Kinsey nor the Harvard libraries list any.
Angus McLaren
________________________________________________________________
Date: Tue, 24 Aug 1999 07:43:33 -0700
From: Karen Duder <kduder@UVic.CA>
Subject: Re: Wheelchairs (addendum)
An addendum, concerning staring and asking questions:
In the interests of discussion...
Isn't pretending not to see a wheelchair rather like saying to someone of
another race, "Oh, I don't see you as ....I think of you as a human being,
just like me."? That is to say, isn't it the ignoring of difference, the
erasure of individuality?
Comments, anyone?
Karen
________________________________________________________________
From: "Donna Larsen" <ladydonna85@hotmail.com>
Subject: Re: New members/Introductions/Research Interests register
Date: Tue, 24 Aug 1999 07:54:45 PDT
Well hello fellow academic leatherdyke, nice to meet you, and thank you for
the support. I have to say that I was a bit baffled about Nicky's post
myself. I am proud of who I am and what I have done, and even more excited
about where I am headed. If it is the validaty of the post that Nicky is
concerned about. I can assure you that is who I really am. I love that my
life has been different than what every one thinks is normal, or what life
"should" be. Finally Nicky thank you for giving me the oppourtunity to
think about my life and reafirm for myself how wonderfull it has really
been.
________________________________________________________________
From: "Donna Larsen" <ladydonna85@hotmail.com>
Subject: Re: New members
Date: Tue, 24 Aug 1999 07:59:49 PDT
I was not implying that everyone had to devulge their orientation, or sex
history. It is just that Mine is a large part of who I am, and a lot of the
reason I am choosing the academic road I am. I decided that a very honest
introduction about who I am was something I wanted to share with everyone.
I don't think it was misplaced.
_______________________________________________________________
From: "Donna Larsen" <ladydonna85@hotmail.com>
Subject: Re: New members
Date: Tue, 24 Aug 1999 08:00:48 PDT
Thank you to everyone who has supported me.
________________________________________________________________
Date: Tue, 24 Aug 1999 16:11:12 +0100
From: cristina santos <cristina@fe.uc.pt>
Subject: Re: Wheelchairs (addendum)
Hi everyone. There's a portuguese sociologist (Boaventura Sousa Santos) who
sustains that we should be equal whenever differences inferiorize us, and
we should be different whenever equality eliminates our own individuality.
I believe we're all different and alike at the same time. Therefore, what
really matters is our acceptance and deep respect for any form of
diversity, as long as it dos not desregard the freedom of everybody else.
In this sense, I'm not sure if a wheelchair would be so important in the
definition of self-identity. My evaluation on others depend much more on
other aspects such as racism, sexism or homophobia.
What do you think?
Cris
________________________________________________________________
From: "Donna Larsen" <ladydonna85@hotmail.com>
Subject: Re: dodgy sexuality
Date: Tue, 24 Aug 1999 08:55:13 PDT
I am not sure how to find any related academic theories yet. Though I would
be very interested to. I can recommend some great books mainly written by
intelligent leather people who mainly describe what Sadomasochism is and is
not for people seeking to enter into a relationship them selves. Race
Bannon wrote one that is mainly geared towards couples but is relevant for
anyone called "Learning the Ropes." Jay Wiseman also did a workbook type
of how to called "SM 101."
A group of students at the University of Washington also began a sex
positive organization called "Society for human sexuality" It has since
broken away from UW but has become mainly a web site that has many papers,
they may have some of those theories and referrals for almost every aspect
of sexuality there is. There URL is http://www.sexuality.org/. After going
to there site to get the URL I stand corrected and notice that they are
still holding workshops as well. They also have a daughter chapter in San
Francisco. I hope all this helps.
________________________________________________________________
From: "Donna Larsen" <ladydonna85@hotmail.com>
Subject: Re: Info on Albert Moll
Date: Tue, 24 Aug 1999 09:07:06 PDT
I would be interested in this work also. In my Human Sexuality class last
fall we had to look up five scientists who studied sexology and write a
paragraph on them. I read about Albert Moll, I was facinated with him, but
have not had a chance to learn more about him or his work.
________________________________________________________________
From: MZink@webtv.net (M Zink)
Date: Tue, 24 Aug 1999 13:51:28 -0400 (EDT)
Subject: Re: Wheelchairs
thanks mario:+)
________________________________________________________________ From: "Lesley Hall" <lesleyah@primex.co.uk>
Subject: Re: "dodgy sexuality": does it have a history?
Date: Tue, 24 Aug 1999 18:52:54 +0100
Are there any historical studies of sexual variations - apart from of
orientation and how this has been understood, policed, experienced? I don't
know of any and my mind was turned to this topic - what people in particular
historical contexts consider 'kinky' but doable, and things which are quite
unthinkable - by the prostitution chapter in R Trumbach's _Sexuality and
Gender in Enlightenment London_. Most bought sex was apparently about
'straight', man/woman, man on top sex but there were various 'refinements' -
flagellation (this was England, after all), 'postures' performed by the
women, two women at once, group sex, and a very few instances of more
one-off type fetishes. Oral and anal sex fairly rare, except in the pricier
'bagnios'. He cites Laurence Stone's article on a libertine group having
group sex (fairly limited variations on) and flagellant orgies in Norwich in
the 1700s. Also, on this theme, I heard a good paper at a conference on
Broadmoor (criminal lunatic asylum) inmates in the later C19th, in which a
letter from an inmate was quoted, which dealt with a fairly elaborate
homosexual sado-masochistic, dominance/submission fantasy scenario. (The
innocent party to whom it was sent - in response to a newspaper ad in search
of employment - informed the police.)
Have there been sexual practices which are even more concealed than
'normal' ones, so we can't say anything about them in a historical sense -
or are these also culturally mediated? There is a paper by a Swedish
historian on bestiality in Sweden in the C18th which included some
cross-cultural material to suggest that there were differences within Europe
(even among agrarian communities) of practice and attitudes towards.
Questions, rather than answers!
Lesley
Lesley Hall
lesleyah@primex.co.uk
website http://homepages.primex.co.uk/~lesleyah
________________________________________________________________
From: "Lesley Hall" <lesleyah@primex.co.uk>
Subject: Re: Wheelchairs (addendum)
Date: Tue, 24 Aug 1999 18:39:29 +0100
Karen Duder asks
>Isn't pretending not to see a wheelchair rather like saying to someone of
>another race, "Oh, I don't see you as ....I think of you as a human being,
>just like me."? That is to say, isn't it the ignoring of difference, the
>erasure of individuality?
On the other hand, how would a person in a wheelchair feel about individuals
who specifically eroticise 'people in wheelchairs' (I'm sure they must
exist) - which is perhaps the reverse of this? Edward Carpenter somewhere in
_Love's Coming of Age_ takes an optimistic spin on the kind of cataloguing
of fetishes being undertaken by Krafft-Ebing, to suggest that everyone is
desirable to someone, somewhere - but I think he may be a bit
over-optimistic that the desire would necessarily be reciprocal.
Lesley
Lesley Hall
lesleyah@primex.co.uk
website http://homepages.primex.co.uk/~lesleyah
________________________________________________________________
Date: Tue, 24 Aug 1999 13:56:59 EST
From: markin@patriot.net
Subject: Re: Wheelchairs
> little things let alone sex. Anyway, thanks once again for being the
> only one brave enough to reply to my question about sex and wheelchairs
> :+)
I'm not certain what courage has to do with this. Histsex deals with the
history of sexuality and perceptions of sexuality, not the present-day
problems of people with disabilities. If no answers were forthcoming,
perhaps it's simply because you asked the wrong people.
That said, I did the same sort of search Karen Duder did on AltaVista,
using +sexuality +disability (and then eliminated several sex terms to
eliminate most of the porn sites that inevitably popped up; nothing
against porn sites, per se, but they aren't helpful in this situation).
There are a great many sites out there. Just picking up a few:
http://www.realtime.net/austinrapecrisis/HTML/psac-lst.htm
Resource list: sexuality and disability
http://www.siecus.org/pubs/biblio/bibs0009.html
Annotated bibliography (this is the one Ms Duder discovered; btw, in
reference to a later statement: Java is a cross-platform computer
language that had nothing to do with the binary attachment in which she
originally sent the bibliography)
http://www.sexualhealth.com/Disability/sci.htm
Various articles on sexuality issues
http://www.goaskalice.columbia.edu/
Go Ask Alice -- nice site where you can ask questions; little there as yet
about sexuality and disabilities, but the answers "Alice" gives seem very
sound, so that's one place that'd be worth looking at
If you run similar searches, changing the search terms slightly (the Web
is much handicapped by not being truly keyword searchable -- one has to
second-guess what terms people might use), you'll come up with even more.
It's always best to do your own searches, in the final analysis, since
you're the only one who knows *exactly* what you're hoping to find.
Good luck.
Mario Rups
markin@patriot.net
________________________________________________________________
Date: Tue, 24 Aug 1999 23:33:52 -0500 (EST)
From: julie <julthoma@indiana.edu>
Subject: Another new subscriber...
I've been an avid reader of this list for the past month and thought it
was time I shun my voyeuristic tendencies and introduce myself...
My name is Julie Thomas. I'm an Nth year PhD student at Indiana
University. Although my PhD is in Russian History, I am serving as a
Visiting Lecturer in the Gender Studies Department. My diss is in the
proposal stage, and will focus on birth control research in Soviet Russia
in the 1920s and 1930s. The diss will be a cross-cultural study of the
United States and USSR (and perhaps Germany?) and how birth control
scientists and information moved between these nations.
I've been working as a research assistant this summer for Judith Allen -
her newest text will focus on the Kinsey era. Fortunately, that means I
have had the opportunity to spend most of the summer working in the Kinsey
Archives! FYI, I would like to offer a response to the discussion about
the availability of the Moll in translation. Although the Kinsey on-line
catalog is extensive, there is a great deal of material that has not yet
been cataloged. This will, hopefully, be corrected soon.... But, in the
meantime, I have been "stumbling onto" some incredible documents and
collections in my work... I'll make a point of looking for the Moll.
I'm enjoying the discussion list immensely - if anyone has done any work
in my area OR if there are any upcoming conferences, please contact me!
Nice meeting you all!
Julie Thomas
;-) ;-) ;-) ;-) ;-) ;-) ;-) ;-) ;-)
JULIE L. THOMAS
Visting Lecturer
Gender Studies Department
Indiana University
Bloomington IN 47405
GENDER STUDIES Course Website: http://indiana.edu/~gens
PERSONAL HOME PAGE: http://php.indiana.edu/~julthoma/
Ph.D. Candidate, Russian History and Gender Studies
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________________________________________________________________
Date: Tue, 24 Aug 1999 21:37:47 -0700
From: Karen Duder <kduder@UVic.CA>
Subject: Lesbian history in Australasia
Histsex:For historians of sexuality - http://homepages.primex.co.uk/~lesleyah
Does anyone on the list know of any brand new work being published on
lesbian history in New Zealand or Australia? I've rather lost touch since
leaving NZ 7 years ago and would like to get a sense of the state of the
field "down under", but web searches have revealed almost nothing. Any
references you could provide would be most helpful.
Thanks,
Karen
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Karen Duder PhD Programme
Department of History Email kduder@uvic.ca
University of Victoria Dept. Phone (250) 721-7382
P.O. Box 3045 Dept. Fax (250) 721-8772
Victoria, B.C. V8W 3P4
CANADA
"Any measurement must take into account the position of the observer.
There is no such thing as measurement absolute, there is only
measurement relative. Relative to what is an important part of the
question." Jeanette Winterson, _Gut Symmetries_
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
________________________________________________________________
Date: Tue, 24 Aug 1999 22:15:22 -0700
From: Jack Kolb <kolb@ucla.edu>
Subject: Re: Info on Albert Moll
>Histsex:For historians of sexuality - http://homepages.primex.co.uk/~lesleyah
>
>I don't think there is an English translation of Moll. At least neither
>the Kinsey nor the Harvard libraries list any.
>
>Angus McLaren
Nor does (a quick search of) the University of California (MELVYL) system.
German copies are available, but I'm sure you know that.
Jack Kolb
Dept. of English, UCLA
kolb@ucla.edu
>
________________________________________________________________
Date: Wed, 25 Aug 1999 09:10:20 +0200
From: Gert Hekma <hekma@pscw.uva.nl>
Subject: Re: Info on Albert Moll
Nekrosadismus
(in: Albert Moll, ed, Handbuch der Sexualwissenschaften, Leipzig: Vogel 1912.
Part (Hauptabschnitt) 7, pp. 605-742, Havelok [sic] Ellis und Dr. Albert
Moll, Die Funktionsstörungen des Sexuallebens (functional disorders of sex
life), ch. I, Psychopathia sexualis, ch. II Neuropathia sexualis; in ch I
4th subchapter "Psychologie der sexuellen Perversionen" A. Erotischer
Symbolismus a. Fetischismus b. Bestialität, c. Algolagnie (Sadismus und
Masochismus), d. Exhibitionismus (B is on homosexuality).
In I A c we find the following remarks:
(p. 642) "Necrophilia or vampirism, the sexual preference for corpses, is a
phenomenon that often is considered to belong under sadism. In such cases,
however, no pain is inflicted, thus it does not really belong to sadism or
masochism." Perhaps it belongs to algolagnia in its broader definition, or
to erotic fetischism. In many cases, inborn degeneration and
feeblemindedness are present. Such men "are often (p. 643) rejected by
women, and their recourse to corpses is nearly a kind of masturbation,
similar to bestiality. The cases in which the corpse is not only abused
(geschändet), but also mutilated, as in the well known case of Sergeant
BERTRAND, have been named Nekrosadismus. Here, however, doesn't exist
sadism in a restricted sense. The mutilation is done to augment the
excitement (Gemütserregung). Such cases are very abnormal." (end of the
algolagnia-section). The topic is not to be found in the index of the book,
and there seems to be no other mention of the topic.
Sergeant Bertrand violated several women's corpses in 1848 in Paris, his
case is discussed in the famous article of C.F.Michéa in the Union Médical
(July 17, 1849) where Michéa proposes for the first time an explanation of
sexual perversion (specifically "philopédie", predecessor of homosexuality)
in terms of an innate desire.
Nekrosadismus is also mentioned in the later editions of Krafft-Ebing's
Psychopathia sexualis (not the 5th, but certainly the 14th edition), in
connection with the same Bertrand. Who invented the term?
________________________________________________________________
From: "Donna Larsen" <ladydonna85@hotmail.com>
Subject: Re: "dodgy sexuality": does it have a history?
Date: Wed, 25 Aug 1999 08:26:36 PDT
Sounds like a great research paper idea. The Leather community has been
working to build up a museum. They have been collecting things for it for a
while and I think they may have papers, or historical notes. It is the
Leather Archives and Museum, they are based in Chicago. Their web site is
http://www.leatherarchives.org/.
________________________________________________________________
From: manohar@sangama.ilban.ernet.in
Date: Tue, 25 May 1999 09:20:50
Subject: Introduction
I am Elavarthi Manohar, 28 year old bisexual male from Bangalore,
India. I have been a social activist for the last 13 years working
with issues like gender, environment, education, HIV/AIDS,
LGBT (gay/lesbian/bisexual/trangered) rights, peace, communalism
etc.. I am active in LGBT rights movement for the last 5 years.
I am in the process of setting up a documentation centre on sexuality
in Bangalore, India. As an activist I am interesed in sexuality
studies.
Manohar
________________________________________________________________
From: "Donna Larsen" <ladydonna85@hotmail.com>
Subject: Re: Introduction
Date: Wed, 25 Aug 1999 19:39:42 PDT
You might consider getting in touch with the folks at gaybc.com. They may
be willing to do an interview with you that would be broadcast over the
internet. This would be a facinating interview and would get the word out
about your search. This may bring those who have information for you
forward. Good luck in your facinating search.
________________________________________________________________
From: ddh@arts.gla.ac.uk
Date: Thu, 26 Aug 1999 16:23:09 +0000
Subject: Re: "Dodgy Sex": The view from southern Russia
In response to Lesley's questions about the unspeakable or undo-able in
sexual acts, I offer the following list of perversions for the use of psychiatrists
and police bureaucrats issued in January, 1974, by the chief of police in
Krasnodar, southern Russia (USSR, as was). Russians borrow a lot of foreign
terminology, but its penetration does vary...!
Dan Healey
Glasgow
"Temporary Instruction about the organization of the observation and
registration of patients with socially dangerous actions in their histories"
[...]
Taking this into account the revised "control card" is divided into a range of
special points, and since after 1971with the implementation of the international
classification of illnesses, traumas and causes of death (8th revised version),
which has previously little-used terminology, this bulletin provides a short
description of the kinds of perversions and the peculiarities of completing points
21-24. In point 21 indicate whether there is sexual perversion (Yes. No. Not
known). Where one exists, indicate the type of perversion:
1. Homosexuality. Lesbianism. Pederasty...
2. Fetishism...
3. Pedophilia...
4. Transvestism...
5. Exhibitionism...
6. Other sexual perversions, including: a) masochism...b) sadism...c)[space
left blank by typist](is not translated, but means something like "dauber") - a
type of perversion, in which people satisfy sexual desire by rubbing the sexual
member (clothed or naked) against some part of the female body. These acts
take place in overfilled train carriages, crowds,
etc...d)bestiality...e)polliutsionizm - this type of perversion consists of the
arousal of the desire to be soiled, insulted by a person of the opposite sex, and
in extreme cases even to smell ... their feces...f) triolizm or pluralizm. This type
of sexual perversion consists of the having present a 3rd party during the sex
act and the viewing of other persons during sex. Sometimes a woman is
required to have sex with another man while the perverted person watches to
gain sexual pleasure. g) necrophilia...h) pigmalionizm - sexual perversion when
sexual arousal is evoked by sight of naked statutes or naked women in
paintings. Sexual outlet can be in form of masturbation or even result in harm to
the works of art (pouring ink, soiling, attacking it)...
"CONFIRMED" - Chief Regional Medical Officer, V. Kurochkin
"CONFIRMED" - Director of the Administration of Internal Affairs [police], V.
Miliakov. 2 January 1974. Krasnodar.
Source: Sergei Shcherbakov, "Sotsial'nye posledstviia prebyvaniia
golubykh v nevole," Gay, Slaviane! , no. 1 (1993): 69-73.
Dan Healey
Wellcome Unit for the History of Medicine
School of History and Archaeology
University of Glasgow
5 University Gardens
Glasgow G12 8QQ
Tel. (0141) 330-5553
Fax (0141) 330-3511
ddh@arts.gla.ac.uk
________________________________________________________________
From: The Fawcett Library <fawcett@lgu.ac.uk>
Subject: Re: "Dodgy Sex": The view from southern Russia
Date: Thu, 26 Aug 1999 16:49:10 +0100 (British Summer Time)
Scuse the facetiousness, but the news from Krasnodar
reminded me of the roughly contemporary "Radio Armenia"
anekdot (in the days when Tchaikovsky's private life was
somewhat glossed over):
Q.: Is it true that Tchaikovsky was a homosexual?
A.: Yes, but this is not the only reason we revere his
memory.
David Doughan, Reference Librarian
The Fawcett Library (The National Library of Women)
fawcett@lgu.ac.uk
http://www.lgu.ac.uk/fawcett/main.htm
Phone: 0171 320 1189
Fax: 0171 320 1188
_________________
"Behind every great man
there is a surprised woman" (Maryon Pearson)
________________________________________________________________
Date: Thu, 26 Aug 1999 12:01:29 -0400 (EDT)
From: Robin Brownlie <brownlie@YorkU.CA>
Subject: Re: Wheelchairs (addendum)
OK, while we're having this very useful discussion, I'm going to jump in
with a dumb question of my own. I see women around town in wheelchairs,
and I'm not much for asking out women in bars (something I've never really
done, too chicken), but I certainly do notice them and I have found some
attractive, if that's some kind of an answer to your question. Here's my
dumb question: what is the best way to handle the height difference? When
I'm standing up and talking to a woman in a wheelchair, she almost always
has to crane her neck like crazy to talk to me. But if I squat down, I
feel as though I'm patronizing her. Does anyone have some good advice on
this issue?
(About the access question, you've raised some really good questions I
haven't thought about -- I have no vehicle, go everywhere by bike, and
Toronto's transit system is not at all good for wheelchairs. If I asked a
woman in a wheelchair home, I'd have to meet her there while she took
WheelTrans, and then I'd have to carry her into the house. Given my size,
this would quite likely be impossible). This is all hypothetical because
I'm in a monogamous relationship.
Robin
________________________________________________________________
From: MZink@webtv.net (M Zink)
Date: Thu, 26 Aug 1999 12:07:25 -0400 (EDT)
Subject: Re: Wheelchairs (addendum)
I am 32 and i am a single woman in a wheelchair, and i like it when a
man comes down to eye level with me, it shows he cares enough to
understand that it is ok to look me in the eye instead of me looking him
in the croch if you know what i mean, and thanks for asking the question
anything else i can answer?
________________________________________________________________
Date: Thu, 26 Aug 1999 12:19:01 -0400 (EDT)
From: Robin Brownlie <brownlie@YorkU.CA>
Subject: Re: Wheelchairs (addendum)
Thanks for the response to my question about getting down to eye level. I
know you aren't speaking for every person in a wheelchair, but it's still
helpful to hear how it is for you. I don't have as many opportunities as I
would like to figure out how to get past my own ableism.
Robin
________________________________________________________________
From: "Lesley Hall" <lesleyah@primex.co.uk>
Subject: Re: "Dodgy Sex": The view from southern Russia
Date: Thu, 26 Aug 1999 20:10:08 +0100
Among Dan Healey's list of the above:
'6. Other sexual perversions, including: a) masochism...b)
sadism...c)[space
left blank by typist](is not translated, but means something like
"dauber") - a
type of perversion, in which people satisfy sexual desire by rubbing the
sexual
member (clothed or naked) against some part of the female body. These acts
take place in overfilled train carriages, crowds,
etc...'
This would be in English 'frottage', practised by a 'frotteur' (interesting
the way English leaves these filthy foreign habits (??) in the obscurity of
a foreign tongue).
The list reads like something someone compiled from the chapter headings in
Psychopathia Sexualis.
Lesley
Lesley Hall
lesleyah@primex.co.uk
website http://homepages.primex.co.uk/~lesleyah
________________________________________________________________
From: "Lesley Hall" <lesleyah@primex.co.uk>
Subject: The Ancient Greeks revisited
Date: Thu, 26 Aug 1999 20:20:41 +0100
Article in today's Guardian, on line at=20
http://www.newsunlimited.co.uk/comment/story/0,3604,76670,00.html
by Ben Rogers Deviance, if you like=20
Sexuality is made, not given. Ask the ancient Greeks=20
=20
=20
suggests that 'A closer reading of Vrissimtzis's 90-page study should =
make even the non-expert wary'.=20
Lesley Hall
lesleyah@primex.co.uk
website http://homepages.primex.co.uk/~lesleyah
________________________________________________________________
Date: Thu, 26 Aug 1999 16:34:03 -0500
From: "Mark D. Faram" <mfaram@earthlink.net>
Subject: Re: The Ancient Greeks revisited
Did the greeks practice circumcision and is there any record of the
practice in ancient greek lit? I know the ancient Egyptians did. How
about the Romans?
Mark
________________________________________________________________
From: JNKATZ1@aol.com
Date: Thu, 26 Aug 1999 16:53:58 EDT
Subject: "Ben Rogers is straight "
Interesting that Ben Rogers, the author of that ballanced essay in The
Guardian, feels that he has to end by identifying his sexual orientation,
against the presumed judgment of many readers that anyone writing a
reasonable piece on homosexuality must be one of the tribe.
Jonathan Ned Katz
________________________________________________________________
Date: Fri, 27 Aug 1999 10:23:52 +1000
From: Hera Cook <dcoo8738@mail.usyd.edu.au>
Subject: Russian birth control and British sex (and other objects of desire not)
Hi,
I knew a woman named Fran Bernstein who did a good Ph.D on sex
education in the USSR in the 1920s. I know she covered a fair amount of
birth control material. I met her at the Wellcome institute and
unfortunately then lost touch with her. You could probably find a
forwarding address for her from them. If you do please give her my
email.
You might also find my thesis helpful. It won't be available for a few
months but it is from Sussex University and the title is 'The Long
Sexual Revolution, British women, sex and contraception in the twentieth
century.' As I use the birth control research done in the UK in this
period a lot I do also talk about the researchers. I would also be happy
to answer further questions if I was able to do so.
Hera
________________________________________________________________
Subject: Greek History Revisited - circumcision
Date: Thu, 26 Aug 1999 18:23:25 -0800
From: "andrei-f" <andrei-f@goplay.com>
The fossil record is not clear on this matter, but K. J. Dover has an
illustration in _Greek Homosexuality_ showing a fight between
Herakles and the Egyptians, where the Egyptians are deprecatingly
shown with large cocks, and circumcised (unlike Hercules). On p.129
Dover discusses the issue, and quotes Herodotos, who plainly says
that only the Egyptians and their emulators practice circumcision,
and further declares it to be an unesthetic custom.
Andrei Foldes
>Did the greeks practice circumcision and is there any record of the
practice in ancient greek lit? I know the ancient Egyptians did. How
about the Romans?
Mark
________________________________________________________________
Subject: Re: "Dodgy Sex": Behavior looking for terminology!
From: Gillian Rodger <grodger@worldnet.att.net>
Date: Fri, 27 Aug 1999 02:37:28 +0000
My favorite example of the unspeakable comes from the National Police
Gazette (August 18,1883:3). Its not so much "unspeakable" as an example of a
very clear knowledge of what's going on with insufficient terminology to
describe it. This newspaper was amazingly snide on this topic in the early
1880s:
Nearly every farmer can tell a story about a hen's changing onto a rooster.
First she ceases to lay. Then her cluck changes to a piping crow. Then the
notes grow broader and louder. Next her wattles change color and her comb
grows. Last of all she puts forth spurs and the gorgeous plumes which
distinguish a rooster's tail. People who have the honor to be on intimate
terms with Christine Nillson [very famous opera singer of the period]
pretend to observe a similar evolution out of one sex into the other on the
part of the Swedish Sappho. She began by growing cold and indifferent to the
courtship and the addresses of men. Her next step in development was to bve
ardently interested in women. Pretty soon she never appeared in public
without a female companion, and after the death of her husband in Charenton
asylum adopted a mate of her own sex as a permanent institution. When she
came to America last year it was generally noticed that her voice had
broadened and deepened in its lower register to a tenor quality. To crown
the analogy the new photographs taken of her in London show her with her
hair cut like a man's and parted on one side. It is barely possible that the
last stage of all will be adoption of the male costume, a la Ella Wesner
[famous American male impersonator of the period].
If anyone is interested in the Police Gazette's reporting on such matters
let me know. I have plenty languishing in my files that I will never get to.
Gillian Rodger
________________________________________________________________
From: "Donna Larsen" <ladydonna85@hotmail.com>
Subject: Re: "Dodgy Sex": The view from southern Russia
Date: Thu, 26 Aug 1999 20:02:48 PDT
That is quite a list. How many of those items have now been removed from
the list or changed? How has the break up of the Soviet union changed sexual
attitudes or freedoms? Are there Professional Dominats? How often are they
raided, and what has happened in those cases? How hard is it to go through a
sex change in Russia? Is it easier to go from male to female, or vice
versa? Just curious.
________________________________________________________________
Subject: FW: Re: "Dodgy Sex": Behavior looking for terminology!
From: Gillian Rodger <grodger@worldnet.att.net>
Date: Fri, 27 Aug 1999 13:51:56 +0000
Sorry, I sent this privately but it bounced back as undeliverable.
----------
From: Gillian Rodger <grodger@worldnet.att.net>
To: "David F. Greenberg" <dg4@is3.nyu.edu>
Subject: Re: "Dodgy Sex": Behavior looking for terminology!
David,
I don't have the entire newspaper I'm afraid, just various clippings
photocopied as I was cruising through about 60 years of PGs. The good news
is that the NYPL Research Library at 42nd & 5th has a pretty good run of
Police Gazettes on microfilm. Their holdings are complete for the period
after 1870 but patchy before that--I think most of the 1860s are missing.
The PGs is a truly wonderful resource and I am always surprised its not used
more.
Gillian Rodger
----------
>From: "David F. Greenberg" <dg4@is3.nyu.edu>
>To: Gillian Rodger <grodger@worldnet.att.net>
>Subject: Re: "Dodgy Sex": Behavior looking for terminology!
>Date: Thu, 26 Aug 1999 23:36:22 -0400 (EDT)
>
>I would be interested in those Police Gazettes, not only for issues of
>gender identity and lesbianism, but for treatment of crime issues as well.
>(I'm a criminologist as well as a sex researcher). How much space do they
take up, in all? - David Greenberg
>- David Greenberg, Sociology Department, New York University, 269 Mercer
>St., Rm. 402, New York, NY 10003
>
________________________________________________________________
From: "Chris Willis" <chris@chriswillis.freeserve.co.uk>
Subject: The Importance of Being Earnest
Date: Fri, 27 Aug 1999 14:48:25 +0100
Hi!
Many thanks to everyone who replied to my queries about 19C homosexual slang
a few months ago. I
I've just been told about another very interesting bit of 1890s slang, but
I'm not sure how reliable the information is. A colleague had heard that in
the1890s "Ernest" was a slang term for what we'd now call a rent-boy, and
that was why Wilde wrote so much word-play on the name in "The
Importance..."
I'm intrigued by this - it adds a whole new layer of meaning to the play,
particularly to the character who has a secret existence as "Ernest".
Trouble is, I can't help feeling it's too good to be true! It sounds like
something that might have been made up after Wilde's trial. Has anyone else
heard this?
All the best
Chris
=========================================
Chris Willis
English Dept
Birkbeck College
Malet Street
London WC1E 7HX
Chris@chriswillis.freeserve.co.uk
http://www.chriswillis.freeserve.co.uk/
=========================================
________________________________________________________________
From: ddh@arts.gla.ac.uk
Date: Fri, 27 Aug 1999 18:40:24 +0000
Subject: Re: "Dodgy Sex": The view from southern Russia
Replies to Donna from Dan:
Send reply to: "Histsex:For historians of sexuality" <histsex@listbot.com>
From: "Donna Larsen" <ladydonna85@hotmail.com>
To: histsex@listbot.com
Subject: Re: "Dodgy Sex": The view from southern Russia
Date sent: Thu, 26 Aug 1999 20:02:48 PDT
> Histsex:For historians of sexuality - http://homepages.primex.co.uk/~lesleyah
>
> That is quite a list. How many of those items have now been removed from
> the list or changed?
I don't know since this hasn't been a line I've been following. I just happened to
be reading it when Lesley began the conversation about "Dodgy Sex". What I
find striking is that medical and legal officials during the "era of stagnation" and
in the back of beyond, were resorting to a list composed internationally to
define perversions. It would be easy to find out by examining the current
international protocols on the nomenclature of diseases and causes of death,
about which I know little except that they have been around since the turn of
the century and get renewed ever decade or so. As far as what is being used
inside Russia now - Foucault has been translated, Krafft-Ebing has been
reprinted, Freud is enjoying a publishing boom: it's pretty anarchic.
How has the break up of the Soviet union changed sexual
> attitudes or freedoms?
Think of Spain after Franco, subtract the Catholic faith, add unregulated
capitalism, and disillusionment with "socialism" and "the emancipation of
women", combine with a high degree of ambient violence... and you end up in a
bar in central Moscow not far from the old KGB headquarters called "The
Hungry Duck". The HD was recently closed but in the two years or so it
operated, it had a "ladies' night": all-you-could-drink for $1 for women only, plus
a succession of male strippers, until 9pm when "drunken, horny" men were
admitted and the result was brawling, injuries and rape. (for a description, see
Time Out's Guide to Moscow, 1999). It was located in the former ballroom of a
"House of Culture" owned by an artists' union. Before the HD, the same
premises housed a wonderful gay bar, "Mask", which used the ballroom with its
1950s crystal chandeliers as a fabulous dancehall playing Russian techno, for
an almost entirely non-foreign clientele of all genders. Those were the days...
Are there Professional Dominats? - what are these?
How often are they
> raided, and what has happened in those cases? How hard is it to go through a
> sex change in Russia? Is it easier to go from male to female, or vice
> versa?
On sex-changing in Russia, check out David Tuller's very readable:
David Tuller, Cracks in the Iron Closet: Travels in Gay & Lesbian
Russia (Boston & London: Faber & Faber, 1996).
My forthcoming book will have some new material from the archives on 1920s
Soviet attempts and demands for sex-changes (in both directions). I would not
recommend submitting to the knife under Soviet or post-Soviet medical
conditions. The ethical shortcuts alone are scary enough.
Just curious.
>
Dan Healey
Wellcome Unit for the History of Medicine
School of History and Archaeology
University of Glasgow
5 University Gardens
Glasgow G12 8QQ
Tel. (0141) 330-5553
Fax (0141) 330-3511
ddh@arts.gla.ac.uk
________________________________________________________________
From: ddh@arts.gla.ac.uk
Date: Fri, 27 Aug 1999 18:40:24 +0000
Subject: Re: Russian birth control and British sex (and other objects of desire not)
About Fran Bernstein's PhD thesis:
Frances Bernstein, "What Everyone Should Know About Sex:
Gender, Sexual Enlightenment, and the Politics of Health in
Revolutionary Russia, 1918-1931" (PhD dissertation, Columbia
University, 1998).
You can get a copy over the web for about $25 on:
www.umi.com
I highly recommend Fran's work!
Dan Healey
Wellcome Unit for the History of Medicine
School of History and Archaeology
University of Glasgow
5 University Gardens
Glasgow G12 8QQ
Tel. (0141) 330-5553
Fax (0141) 330-3511
ddh@arts.gla.ac.uk
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Date: Fri, 27 Aug 1999 14:15:26 EST
From: markin@patriot.net
Subject: Re: "Dodgy Sex": The view from southern Russia
Histsex:For historians of sexuality - http://homepages.primex.co.uk/~lesleyah
> type of perversion, in which people satisfy sexual desire by rubbing the
> sexual
> member (clothed or naked) against some part of the female body. These acts
...
> This would be in English 'frottage', practised by a 'frotteur' (interesting
Although frottage isn't just male member against female body -- can be
male member against male body, of course. But I guess that's already
covered under homosexuality. (And I wish people wouldn't keep equating
being gay with being a pederast.)
> the way English leaves these filthy foreign habits (??) in the obscurity of
> a foreign tongue).
Reminds me of the old Loeb facing translations, where the dicy passages in
Greek on the left-hand page would be translated into Latin on the
right-hand page, and the dicy Latin on the left into Italian on the right.
It sure made it easier to find where such passages were -- just read along
in the English, and where the language changed, bingo, there it was. It
also made for a very interesting specialized vocabulary in three
languages!
> Lesley
> Lesley Hall
Mario Rups
markin@patriot.net
________________________________________________________________ Date: Fri, 27 Aug 1999 14:15:31 EST
From: markin@patriot.net
Subject: Re: "Dodgy Sex": Behavior looking for terminology!
Histsex:For historians of sexuality - http://homepages.primex.co.uk/~lesleyah
> If anyone is interested in the Police Gazette's reporting on such matters
> let me know. I have plenty languishing in my files that I will never get to.
>
> Gillian Rodger
I, for one, would be delighted.
Thus far I have not wanted to introduce myself to this august company,
preferring to lurk in a corner and hope that no one will notice the
interloper ... I do have an academic background, or had one once upon a
time before I got sidetracked and became a librarian, but sexuality was
never my field or even a particular interest.
I am at the moment merely a "civilian" working on a personal research
project. My main interest for present purposes is in the mid to late
1880s, especially London (or England in general) but also the U.S. and
Europe. I joined this list in the hopes of picking up stray snippets
of information just like the above, re: sex, sexuality, attitudes vis a
vis sex / sexuality, and sexual "perversions" of this period, with
emphasis on prostitution, homosexuality (ergo also male prostitution),
and, to a lesser extent, what would later come to be called sadism and
masochism.
Alas, I am too near the beginning of my research to be of much use to the
list ... hence shall probably remain a lurker for most of the time.
Mario Rups
markin@patriot.net
________________________________________________________________
Date: Fri, 27 Aug 1999 14:15:33 EST
From: markin@patriot.net
Subject: Re: Maines' martyrdom
> some of which quite clearly aren't! She seems to think that any appliance
> which has the word "vibrate" or "massage" in its name or instructions must
> be a vibrator, even if it's something like a neck and scalp massager. One
> of the devices illustrated looks like a 1940s equivalent of the "Tens"
> machine which is used to treat people with incurable back and neck
> problems - in other words, exactly what the advertisements say it is.
Ah, so that's the "legitimate" use of the Tens machine ... I'd wondered,
but didn't know whom to ask. The only context in I'd ever come across the
thing was CBT. And the only advert I've ever seen was on the web (not
sure I could find it again, though), on a sex "toy" site ... So, it all
depends on what advertisements one finds, although it's easier to find
explicitly sexual ones now than it was in Victorian times.
> All the best
> Chris
Mario Rups
markin@patriot.net
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From: "Lesley Hall" <lesleyah@primex.co.uk>
Subject: Re: "Dodgy Sex": The view from southern Russia
Date: Fri, 27 Aug 1999 20:05:00 +0100
Re the question about transexuals in the former USSR: a few years ago I was
at a small conference in Budapest, along with a number of other individuals
on this list (whose recollections may be clearer than mine!), on
'Civilisation, Sexuality and Social Life in Historical Context: The Hidden
Face of Urban Life'. Among the rather eclectic group of participants were
some sexologists from Kiev in the Ukraine, who gave a paper on 'gender
identity disorders' in the Ukraine within recent decades. The most
interesting thing that I personally recall from this is that the proportion
of female to male transsexuals was more or less the reverse of what it is
stated to be in the USA/Western Europe. There is a 4-page summary of their
presentation in the published conference proceedings: if anyone would be
especially interested I could xerox this and post it to them. (Or you could
try and obtain a copy of the proceedings from the Institute of the History
of Medicine and Social Medicine, Semmelweiss University of Medicine,
Budapest)
Lesley Hall
lesleyah@primex.co.uk
website http://homepages.primex.co.uk/~lesleyah
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Subject: Re: don't
Date: Fri, 27 Aug 1999 20:06:49 +0100
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Date: Fri, 27 Aug 1999 20:38:24 +0100
From: Ianthe <ianthe@duende.demon.co.uk>
Subject: Re: The Importance of Being Earnest
In message <005501bef0ad$d567a320$cf2d893e@freeservesignup>, Chris
Willis <chris@chriswillis.freeserve.co.uk> writes
>A colleague had heard that in
>the1890s "Ernest" was a slang term for what we'd now call a rent-boy, and
>that was why Wilde wrote so much word-play on the name in "The
>Importance..."
>
>I'm intrigued by this - it adds a whole new layer of meaning to the play,
>particularly to the character who has a secret existence as "Ernest".
>Trouble is, I can't help feeling it's too good to be true! It sounds like
>something that might have been made up after Wilde's trial. Has anyone else
>heard this?
There is also a resemblance (surely not lost on Wilde and
his circles) to the 'homosexual' precursor terms of
Uranian / Urning / Urningthum. Symonds despised the
macaronic term 'homosexual', preferring Urning and Urningthum
as terms, and it seems likely that Wilde's circle would have
known of the usage and perhaps even used it themselves. The
title 'Love In Earnest' is thus susceptible to further levels
of queer Wildean word-play - spoken it breaks to
'Love-ing Urn(-est)' - which when written could also be re-
arranged as 'Lovest Urning', or perhaps even 'Love Est Urning'
(if the Est has a meaning in Latin, I think it does but am
not sure - can anyone enlighten me ?).
On the foundation of such word-puzzles and queer code-words
it seems a world-wide homosexual/boy-loving poetry-based
underground was evolved, post-Wilde.
I must say they I haven't hear of the word Earnest being a
term for Victorian rent-boys, though.
Other 'homosexual' precursor terms around that time were:
'Greek love'
Invert
Third-sexer
Intersexual
Calamite
Chivalrous
Comrade(s)
'Manly love'
Yours,
--
Ianthe Duende
________________________________________________________________
From: MillerJimE@aol.com
Date: Fri, 27 Aug 1999 22:25:52 EDT
Subject: Re: "Dodgy Sex": The view from southern Russia
In a message dated 08/27/1999 1:05:36 PM Central Daylight Time,
markin@patriot.net writes:
<< Reminds me of the old Loeb facing translations, where the dicy passages in
Greek on the left-hand page would be translated into Latin on the
right-hand page, and the dicy Latin on the left into Italian on the right.
It sure made it easier to find where such passages were -- just read along
in the English, and where the language changed, bingo, there it was. It
also made for a very interesting specialized vocabulary in three
languages! >>
Also the Ante-Nicene Fathers and the Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers.
Large sections of Clement's Paedagogus never made it into English and the
Latin vocabulary is either very creative or very informative.
Jim Miller
________________________________________________________________
From: "Donna Larsen" <ladydonna85@hotmail.com>
Subject: Re: "Dodgy Sex": The view from southern Russia
Date: Fri, 27 Aug 1999 20:03:39 PDT
Thanks for all of the great and interesting information. I am always
interested in the sexuality attitudes of other countries.
Professional Dominatrixes are usually women, though I know of a few make
doms in the gay community. They do sadomasochism, usually female domination
for money. They often work in a dungeon. I may have to do a paper in the
near future on the history of this profession. Could be interesting.
________________________________________________________________
Date: Sat, 28 Aug 1999 15:00:21 +0100 (BST)
From: RM CLEMINSON <R.M.Cleminson@Bradford.ac.uk>
Subject: Re: Inq. Henning Bech
I have read this book and found it extraordinary. Bech's mapping of the
male homosexual as reliant upon modernity and all its trappings is very
elegantly expressed in this book. I have found it very useful in
rethinking how sexual identities, esp. 'deviant' ones, are related to the
form and growth of the city, information highways (eg train stations), and
to the gaze.
It's also a fun read!
******************************
Dr.Richard M. Cleminson
Lecturer in Spanish Studies
Department of Modern Languages
University of Bradford
Bradford, West Yorkshire
BD7 1DP
http://www.expert.brad.ac.uk/r_m_cleminson/
tel: +1274 234595
fax: +1274 235590
________________________________________________________________
From: "Donna Larsen" <ladydonna85@hotmail.com>
Subject: Re: "Dodgy Sex": The view from southern Russia
Date: Fri, 27 Aug 1999 20:17:12 PDT
I would be very interested in obtaining a copy of the paper on Gender
idenity in the Ukraine. Thanks
________________________________________________________________
Subject: Re: Inq. Henning Bech
Date: Sat, 28 Aug 1999 09:36:14 -0500
Richard,
I have found Bech useful for his theorization of the forms and dynamics
of acceptable and illicit inter-male looking. I can't undersatnd why the
book has received so little 'word of mouth.' Thoughts?
>I have read this book and found it extraordinary. Bech's mapping of the
>male homosexual as reliant upon modernity and all its trappings is very
>elegantly expressed in this book. I have found it very useful in
>rethinking how sexual identities, esp. 'deviant' ones, are related to the
>form and growth of the city, information highways (eg train stations), and
>to the gaze.
>
>It's also a fun read!
Michael J. Murphy, M.A.
Graduate Student, Dept. of Art History and Archaeology
Washington University, St. Louis
mjmurphy@artsci.wustl.edu
********************************
"And remember darling I don't work before 10:30 and never after 4:30 in
the afternoon."
-Norma Desmond to Cecil B. DeMille in _Sunset
Boulevard_
________________________________________________________________
Date: Sat, 28 Aug 1999 14:27:00 -0700
From: Sharon Block <sblock@uci.edu>
Subject: Call for Papers: Early Am Sex
Call for Papers
MCEAS/OIEAHC Conference on Sexuality in Early America
March 2001
In the last two decades, the history of sexuality has
emerged as an important and dynamic field of inquiry. By
historicizing matters once understood as universal and
eternal, scholars have connected sexual behaviors and
desires to specific political, social, and economic
contexts. Many have discovered links between this
seemingly private realm of human experience and
broader structures of power. Still others have questioned
the coherence of the category of sexuality itself. With few
exceptions, early American scholars have remained on
the margins of this new field. Mindful of this omission,
the McNeil Center for Early American Studies and the
Omohundro Institute of Early American History and
Culture announce a conference on Sexuality in Early
America, c. 1500-1820. Scheduled for March 2001 in
Philadelphia, the conference aims to examine the
relationship between sexuality (defined broadly to
include desire, behavior, and attitudes) and the conditions
and institutions of early American society (also defined
broadly to include New France, the Caribbean, and the
Spanish borderlands). Successful applicants will be asked
to expand their proposals to thirty pages, and these drafts
will be pre-circulated to all conference participants.
Following the conference and authors' revisions, the
papers will be published in a special issue of the *William
and Mary Quarterly.*
Papers that present fresh theoretical perspectives, cross-
cultural comparisons, or new empirical data are
encouraged. Especially desirable are papers that use such
approaches to challenge current histories of sexuality in
early America. Although there are no set topics for
papers, all papers should directly address sexual
mattersas opposed to the broader issues of gender--in a
context that will enhance our knowledge of early
America. For example, papers might research the
comparative impacts of colonization on European or
Native American sexual behavior; the role of sexuality in
the colonization process; changing images of sexual
bodies; the sexualization of racial categories; the erotic
discourses of discovery, revolution, or early nationhood;
relationships between popular mores and legal or
religious strictures; the rise of regionally distinct patterns
of sexual attitudes or behavior; the economic, familial, or
demographic contexts of changing sexual behaviors;
sexual aesthetics in the visual arts, fashion, or print
culture; the sexual cultures of cities and public spaces;
medical views of sexuality and reproduction; or the
dynamics of bawdy humor. Papers that embrace a more
broadly synthetic approach or question the applicability
of modern concepts of sexuality to early America are also
welcome.
Paper proposals must be postmarked by February 1,
2000. These proposals should include a brief c.v. and a
five-to-ten-page prospectus. The prospectus must explain
the substance of the proposed paper, the sources used,
and how the essay will reassess or enhance our current
understanding of sexuality in early America. Scholars at
all points in their careers are urged to apply. A steering
committee composed of Sharon Block, Kathleen Brown,
Bruce Burgett, Patricia Cline Cohen, Richard Godbeer,
and Martha Hodes will screen proposals and arrange
sessions and commentators. Direct questions to
sblock@uci.edu or kabrown@sas.upenn.edu. Send seven
copies of the proposal to: Sexuality Conference,
OIEAHC, P.O. Box 8781, Williamsburg, VA 23187-
8781.
________________________________________________________________
Date: Sun, 29 Aug 1999 12:12:39 +1000
From: Hera Cook <dcoo8738@mail.usyd.edu.au>
Subject: re: Ben Rogers is straight
Hi,
OUP USA have just published a reader on _Sexuality_ editted
by Robert Nye. (see below for OUP's description) I talked to him about
the book, and listened to him in a seminar describing the conclusions he
had come to as a result of attempting to provide an overview - Sex, he
thinks is not stable but gender is. That is, he believes, in all
societies at all times, gender has remained stable - though it may not
be connected to biological sex. That is to say that whether heterosexual
or gay, men and women have enacted gender roles in dyadic structures-
much as we know them today.
I do not believe this - however my research interest is in female
sexuality and the dominant sexual culture in twentieth century Britain -
an area and period in which great change did occur.
What interested me in the Ben Roger's article on the Greeks which Ned
Katz comments on, was the following -
The Greeks did not
stigmatise
homosexuality as
such, but they did
stigmatise men who
took a passive or
"womanish" sexual
role. Free citizens
were expected to
dominate their partners
were expected to
dominate their partners -
subordination was
for women or male
slaves, prostitutes
and foreigners.
Obviously there is a whole story about hierarchies/deference etc in the
society as a whole which is being acted out in sexual relations just as
it would be in any other realm of behaviour in this society. However
this is probably the kind of evidence which Nye would take as supporting
his position. George Chauncey's wonderful book _Gay New York_ could also
be taken as supporting this position, I presume.
Is anybody doing relevant research - got comments or opinions on this
issue. I don't intend to start another discussion on a book no one has
read - this is an inquiry about the issue rather than Nye's book.
(Though I have put the OUP web address below for your interest -and if
anyone would email me personally and tell me how to put in live HTML
links I'd be grateful)
For OUP USA description of the book -
http://www.oup-usa.org/docs/0192880195.html
Regards,
Hera
________________________________________________________________
Subject: Re: "Dodgy Sex": Behavior looking for terminology!
From: Gillian Rodger <grodger@worldnet.att.net>
Date: Sun, 29 Aug 1999 03:52:58 +0000
Hi Mario,
good to see you here (I'm on Victoria too). I'm not sure my files will help
with your interest but you should definitely get your hands on the PG. Look
for the Oscar Wilde tour of the US during the 1880s (can't remember exactly
when and it would take a major excavation of files to find out). Also look
at the way the depiction of a man-about-town changed during the 1880s. The
questionable sexuality of ministers and other clerics was also a favorite
topic.
Of course much of this reflects class-based hostilities. The PG in this
period was very pro-working (white, American-born) man and very anti
middle-class (particularly moral reformers and anyone who threatened to
curtail their leisure and its pleasures). Chauncey's discussion about
working-class leisure patterns and moral reform in Gay New York gives a very
good summary of the reasons for the kinds of hostilities seen in the PG. But
its fascinating to actually seen them first hand.
I'll look through what I have and let you know privately if I find anything
of interest but I mostly have the theatrical pages and then articles on
women passing as men, or, more rarely, men as women. And then some odd
things about "manly" behavior in women.
I cruised through about 30 odd years of the PG and it was well worth it--it
certainly provides a different view of America than one gets from the NYT or
other newspapers.
Cheers,
Gillian
________________________________________________________________ Date: Mon, 30 Aug 1999 14:19:28 +1000
From: Christopher Forth <Christopher.Forth@anu.edu.au>
Subject: Intro and Copraphagia
Hi, all--
I'm a lecturer in cultural history at the Australian National University
and am working on a study of the male body in France during the Dreyfus
Affair (1894-1906), and have a question about copraphagia as a sexual
"perversion." I came across a juicy but passing reference in Eugen Weber's
_France, Fin de Siècle_, in which the author quotes an author reflecting
upon his contacts with the writer Jean Lorrain. This writer claims that
copraphagia was all the rage among homosexuals in Paris during the 1890s.
As I'm interested in excremental imagery during this period, this sort of
thing is understandably provocative. Does anyone have any suggestions on
how to go about discovering more about this practice at the turn of the
century? I've consulted the standard sexologies, but are there other
sources I should consider? Are there any worthwhile psychoanalytic
materials worth considering?
best,
Chris Forth
***********************
Christopher E. Forth
Department of History
Faculty of Arts
Australian National University
Canberra ACT 0200
Australia
Tel: 02 6249 2717
Fax: 02 6249 4083
http://www.anu.edu./history/index.htm
________________________________________________________________
Date: Mon, 30 Aug 1999 09:57:39 +0200
From: Gert Hekma <hekma@pscw.uva.nl>
Subject: Re: queers and transexuals in Russia
re: transexuals in the Ukrain and queers in Russia
The name of the author of the text is Boris Vornik and he has more material
(a small booklet on the sexual history of the Ukrain) on this topic written
in English.
Laura Essig in her book "Queer in Russia" (Durham Duke UP, 1999) has also
fascinating info on transsexuals, she her self posing as a kind of male
person on the cover of the book. She describes how gay men were
criminalised in the former SU, and butchy lesbians were medicalised and
defined as a kind of transexuals.
I found the biography of the Russian gay poet Mikhail Kuzmin that was
published by Harvard or Yale earlier this year very informative on sexual
politics in the Russian Silver Age and the situation in the Soviet Union
immediately afterwards. And Dan Healey's own chapter on Moscow in David
Higgs' (ed) Queer Sites (routledge 1999) offers also abundant, rich info on
gay life in Russia in the 19th and 20th c.
Gert Hekma
A
________________________________________________________________
Date: Mon, 30 Aug 1999 11:50:54 +0200
From: Gert Hekma <hekma@pscw.uva.nl>
Subject: Re: Intro and Copraphagia
Dear Chris,
there might be a police gazette in France as there was in the US, and there
were police inspectors of the vice squad who wrote their work histories,
f.e. F.Canler, Memoires de Canler, ancien chef de la police de surete,
Paris 1862, and there are more of them. What do you mean by the standard
sexologies, because there are so many also in French from Tardieu to
Brouardel on sex crime, of Garnier on fetichism, to mention a few that
might give info on the topic you are researching. Lacassagne's Archives de
l'anthropologie criminelle might have relevant material.
Gert Hekma
________________________________________________________________
Date: Mon, 30 Aug 1999 20:32:39 +1000 (EST)
From: mimorris@netspace.net.au (Miranda E Morris)
Subject: Re: The Importance of Being Earnest
Perhaps the play is on earning/urning rent boys
Miranda Morris
mimorris@netspace.net.au
Miranda Morris
mimorris@netspace.net.au
________________________________________________________________
Date: Mon, 30 Aug 1999 17:20:50 +0100
From: Ianthe <ianthe@duende.demon.co.uk>
Subject: Re: The Importance of Being Earnest
In message <v01520d01b3ef16600a8c@[210.15.196.36]>, Miranda E Morris
<mimorris@netspace.net.au> writes
>Histsex:For historians of sexuality - http://homepages.primex.co.uk/~lesleyah
>
>Perhaps the play is on earning/urning rent boys
Ah yes, indeed, that one hadn't occurred to me. "Is he
earning (Urning)?" would be a convenient cover-phrase,
which if challenged could be passed off as a charitable
enquiry by a Victorian philanthropist as to whether or
not a street boy was in employment... :) So perhaps there
was indeed a rent-boy link to the term/word ?
--
Ianthe Duende
________________________________________________________________
Date: Mon, 30 Aug 1999 10:33:01 -0400
From: "Mark D. Faram" <mfaram@earthlink.net>
Subject: Intro
Greetings, list,
After reading all the intro posts, I felt it was time to quite lurking in the
shadows and say hello.
I am a journalist who covers the U.S. military. I am interested in gender and
sexual issues in the military. I spent 10 years on active-duty and 5 years in the
reserves, both in all male and mixed-gender units.
I don't cover these issues exclusivley, but I do so when necessary. in 1993, a
story that I broke on the difficulties pregnant women were having in the U.S.
Coast Guard, prompted changes in how that service does performance evaluations on
pregnant women. It was good to see.
Sex and sexuality has played quite a latent role in the military over the
centuries. It has always seemed to be just below the surface. Even with the
military changing as it has, the role of sex and sexuality is still just below
the surface.
Many issues are still there, homosexuality, fraternization, harrassment, many
have had band-aid attempts to fix them. But all in all an interesting topic!
Mark D. Faram
________________________________________________________________
Date: Tue, 31 Aug 1999 00:09:01 +1000
From: Hera Cook <dcoo8738@mail.usyd.edu.au>
Subject: re gender stability
Hi,
I accidently looked at this again and realised that I haven't said I
respected Robert
Nye and am not intending to simply reject his conclusions on the continuity of
gender.I
think a lot of the evidence can suggest this. The question for me is how else can
this evidence be
read or what other evidence is there?
But, perhaps other historians of sexuality/list members are quite satisfied with
this conclusion
and regard the radical sexual equalitarianism of the 1970s as a brief unreal
flurry, given inappropriate
importance by the fact that some of us lived through it and some - me- grew up
with it.
In passing Robert Nye's book is also quite different to anything else I have
seen. It is intended
primarily for teaching but as he has covered the secondary sources it also
summarises the discipline
as a whole. I found it very interesting to look at.
Hera
________________________________________________________________
From: "Lesley Hall" <lesleyah@primex.co.uk>
Subject: Re: Intro: military question
Date: Mon, 30 Aug 1999 16:47:26 +0100
Mark D Faram wrote
>Sex and sexuality has played quite a latent role in the military over the
>centuries. It has always seemed to be just below the surface.
This has certainly played a significant part in debates around venereal
diseases. I have an article forthcoming
'"War always brings it on": sexually-transmitted diseases, the military, and
the civil population in Britain, 1850-1950'
in an edited volume 'Medicine and the Making of Modern Warfare'
but it is a recurrent theme.
Lesley Hall
lesleyah@primex.co.uk
website http://homepages.primex.co.uk/~lesleyah
________________________________________________________________
Date: Tue, 31 Aug 1999 08:44:21 +0100
From: Stacy Gillis <stacy.gillis@ukonline.co.uk>
Subject: CFP: "Early Modern Devils Incarnate?" (9/15; NEMLA, 4/7-4/8)
Apologies for the cross-posting but I thought that this could be of use to
some on this list - Stacy
>Delivered-To: stacy.gillis@ukonline.co.uk
>Date: Mon, 30 Aug 1999 04:05:06 +0100 (BST)
>From: Michael Morgan Holmes <mmorganh@yahoo.co.uk>
>Subject: CFP: "Early Modern Devils Incarnate?" (9/15; NEMLA, 4/7-4/8)
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>"DEVILS INCARNATE?"
>Northeast MLA Conference
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>
>The House of Lords has recently been in quite a flap
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>Brussels. Are Baroness Young's twisted knickers a
>manifestation of a centuries-old British fear and
>loathing of European morality and behaviour?
>
>This panel will provide a forum for research on early
>modern (roughly 1480 to 1789) British representations
>of and attitudes towards European vice. Also welcome
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>home with a taste for "things" Continental: "un
>diavolo incarnato," Roger Ascham warned long ago....
>
>Please feel welcome to pursue any theoretical lines
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>would also undertake more general analyses of the
>cultural politics which inform the issues at stake.
>
>300-500 word proposals should be sent to me via snail-
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>and to meeting you in Buffalo next year.
>
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Canadian champagne.
-- Robertson Davies--
________________________________________________________________
Date: Tue, 31 Aug 1999 07:15:49 -0400 (EDT)
From: Michael Sibalis <msibalis@wlu.ca>
Subject: Re: Intro and Copraphagia
I have read most of the source material on homosexuality in 19th-century
France, and I cannot remember seeing anything that would suggest that
copraphagia was "all the rage" among homosexuals in the 1890's! There
might possibly be something in the Archives d'Anthropologie Criminelle of
the period, which has a lot of source material on perversions, but I
suspect that Chris Forth will have a great deal of trouble finding
anything very specific.
I will take this occasion to introduce myself to the list. I am writing a
book on male homosexuality in Paris in the 18th, 19th and 20th centuries.
I have recently published: "Paris," in _Queer Sites: Gay Urban Histories
since 1600_, edited by David Higgs (Routledge);
"Paris-Babylone/Paris-Sodome: Images of homosexuality in the
nineteenth-century city," in _Images of the City in Nineteenth-Century
France_, edited by John West-Sooby (Boombana Publications); and "Defining
Masculinity in Fin-de-Siecle France: Sexual Anxiety and the Emergence of
the Homosexual," in _Proceedings of the Western Society for French
History, volume 25 (1998).
I would be pleased to hear directly from any members of this list who
might suggest sources that I might have overlooked. I have been mining
the French national archives, the police archives of Paris and countless
pamphlets and newspapers, as well as the private papers of some gay
militants.
++++++++++++++++++++++++++
Michael D. Sibalis
Associate Professor
Department of History
Wilfrid Laurier University
Waterloo, Ontario
CANADA N2L 3C5
(519)-884-0710 ext. 3141
msibalis@wlu.ca
________________________________________________________________
Date: Tue, 31 Aug 1999 07:10:18 -0700 (MST)
From: Tim Hodgdon <Tim.Hodgdon@asu.edu>
Subject: Re: Hera Cook on gender stability
I was intrigued by Hera Cook's phrase, "regard the radical
sexual equalitarianism of the 1970s as a brief unreal
flurry, given inappropriate importance by the fact that some
of us lived through it and some - me- grew up with it."
Were you referring to the early years of gay liberation,
when key writers drew their inspiration from lesbian
feminist theory (as in the anthology *Out of the Closets*,
ed. K. Jay and A. Young)? Or were you making a different
kind of argument: that the sexual revolution could be
regarded as an instance of historical gender equality?
Tim Hodgdon
Ph.D. candidate
Faculty Associate
Department of History
Arizona State University
Tim.Hodgdon@asu.edu
________________________________________________________________
From: "Rictor Norton" <norton@rictor.freeserve.co.uk>
Subject: Re: The Importance of Being Earnest
Date: Tue, 31 Aug 1999 11:07:40 +0100
It seems almost certain that "Earnest" was some kind of homosexual code word
in the early 1890s, and that it preceded Wilde's use of it and preceded his
trials. John Gambril Nicholson's book of pederastic verse
published in 1892 was titled _Love in Earnest_. One quatrain will suffice as
example:
One name can make my pulses bound,
No peer it owns, nor parallel,
But it is Vivian's sweetness drowned,
And Roland, full as organ-swell;
Though Frank may ring like silver bell,
And Cecil softer music claim,
They cannot work the miracle, --
'Tis Ernest sets my heart a-flame.
Nicholson's book quickly became well known among pederastic circles. John
Addington Symonds began notifying friends of its existence from July 1892.
It seems very possible that the title of Wilde's play _The Importance of
Being Earnest_ was an allusion specifically to this book of poems by
Nicholson. Wilde, Nicholson (and Douglas) all contributed pieces to the same
issue of the _Chameleon_, though it is not certain that Wilde personally
knew Nicholson. Timothy d'Arch Smith's fascinating study of the
interconnection of pederastic poets is of course titled _Love in Earnest:
Some Notes on the Lives and Writings of English "Uranian" Poets from 1889 to
1930_ (1970).
Nicholson was making a pun on "earnest" and his 12/13-year-old boyfriend's
real name "Ernest". We do not know if Nicholson was aware of Ulrichs's
theories, or if he was making an additional allusion to some pre-existing
slang term for homosexual. The possible pun on earnest/urning is possible
but doubtful. If there had been any contemporary evidence of this, Timothy
d'Arch Smith no doubt would have discovered and cited it. (In a sense his
whole book is based upon this pun, but he doesn't make this explicit.)
Ulrichs's work was not translated into English, and only a limited number of
people specifically interested in
sexology (like Symonds) would have been familiar with his word "Urning".
Elite literary circles did know about Ulrichs's theory, but they almost all
used his more poetic term "Uranian" rather than "Urning". However, Charles
Kains Jackson, who was a kind of mentor of Nicholson, almost certainly did
know of Ulrichs's term.
I don't think that "Is he earning (Urning)?" would be a "convenient
cover-phrase", because virtually no one would have made the connection, that
is, "Uranian" would have been more widely known than "Urning", and the
ordinary gay man walking the street would have known neither term. Also, I
don't see that either Nicholson or Wilde make any punning allusions to
rent-boys earning money in the works in question.
Theo Aronson in _Prince Eddy and the Homosexual Underworld_ says that "In
some circles the word "earnest" was a synonym for homosexual. "Is he
earnest?" became a familiar question." Aronson does not give any
contemporary citation to support this. I suppose it is possible that this
usage arose after 1892 in circles that knew of Nicholson's poems, and that
this circle did include Wilde's circle. But D'Arch Smith's focus on
Nicholson's poems is the only contemporary evidence I've seen cited, and I
haven't seen any evidence that the term had a specialized homosexual meaning
prior to 1892. I don't think the term is included in any dictionaries of
sexual slang. I've never seen the claim that it is a code word specifically
for "rent-boy", except on this list.
The possible puns are intriguing and attractive: but more hard evidence
please!
--
Rictor Norton
mailto:norton@rictor.freeserve.co.uk
http://www.infopt.demon.co.uk/rcnorton.htm