'Erotic Art Africa' (1995), by John Kilaka (born in 1966) – Tanzanian painter, illustrator and writer.
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Sex History. "A Catalogue of Jilts, Cracks, Nightwalkers, Whores, She-Friends, Kind Women & Others of the Linen-Lifting Tribe”
December 17th is the #InternationalDayToEndViolenceAgainstSexWorkers. It’s marked all around the world by those fighting against stigma, hate, & for the right to be safe. You can follow along on social media with the hashtags #IDEVASW #IDEVASW22.
In European folklore, Krampus is a half-goat, half-demon figure who, during the Christmas season, punishes children who have misbehaved. Krampus erotica is thought to have started in Austria in the 1960s & proved very popular in Germany.
On this episode of #BetwixtTheSheets I am chinwagging with the spectacularly clever Tristan Hughes about the sex life of Alexander the Great.
A #Christmas #History Fact for You
The word “Mistletoe” derives from the old English ‘tān’, meaning ‘twig’ & the Germanic base ‘mix’ (‘mistle’), which means ‘dung’.
It literally means ‘shitty twig’. The Oxford English Dictionary suggests this may be because ‘the plant is propagated in the excrement of birds’.
A quick festive fact from sex history for you
Saturnalia was a Roman festival held Dec 17-23. The poet Lucian (120-80CE) said it was a time of “drinking & being drunk, noise & games & dice, appointing of kings & feasting of slaves, singing naked, clapping of tremulous hands, & occasional ducking of corked faces in icy water”
