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Showing posts with label Protestantism. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Protestantism. Show all posts

The History of Sex: Prague -- Premature Perestroika -- (Chapter X, Part 15)

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And most of the government's reforms were very moderate indeed. As a teenager, Jan Kaplan took advantage of the new freedom to travel...

The History of Sex: Seville -- Flamenco and White Slavery -- (Chap. VI, Pt. 15)

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Having set the standards for the rest of the world during the Inquisition and launched a mission to save Catholicism under Franco , it seem...

The History of Sex: Seville -- Tricksters and Conquistadors -- (Chap. VI, Pt. 8)

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Though prone to corruption, a devil's advocate could argue that the Inquisition served as a check on decadence during Spain's 'G...

The History of Sex: Seville -- The Church of Me, Myself, and I -- (Chap. VI, Pt. 5)

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The Holy Office of the Inquisition got its start in Seville in 1478 after King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella—the self-styled 'Catholic Mo...

The History of Sex: Geneva -- How Not to Pick Up a Booth Babe -- (Chap. V, Pt. 18)

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Rather than force me to walk round and round to talk to them, the Skoda girls suggest I hop in the backseat, with Nikolina 'driving'...

The History of Sex: Geneva -- Does My Penis Look Big in This? -- (Chap. V, Pt. 16)

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But Lena's knowledge of cars borders on the carnal. Spotting the new Pagani, her eyes gleam as she starts stroking her hair, as if the...

The History of Sex: Geneva -- Weeding Out the Weirdos -- (Chap. V, Pt. 13)

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As for Rousseau , his love-hate relationship with his hometown is reciprocated to this day. A little island in the middle of the Rhone is ...

The History of Sex: Geneva -- Calvin and 'The Woman With Beautiful Breasts' -- (Chap. V, Pt. 12)

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The latest attempt to breathe life into the Old Reformer is the $3.4 million International Museum of the Reformation that opened in 2005 in ...

The History of Sex: Geneva -- A Decadent Playground -- (Chap. V, Pt. 10)

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Strolling through Geneva today, you'd need the eyes of a Protestant sin-spotter to glimpse its puritanical past—or its Rousseau connecti...

The History of Sex: Geneva -- Rousseau and the Soulmate -- (Chap. V, Pt. 9)

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Two centuries later, all these conflicting elements crystallized into one contradictory philosopher, a proud 'Citizen of Geneva' who...

The History of Sex: Geneva -- Calvin and the Age of Consent -- (Chap. V, Pt. 8)

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What really made Reformation Geneva different, though, was that it had begun to punish men and women equally for sexual transgressions. As...

The History of Sex: Geneva -- Torture in the Protestant Rome -- (Chap. V, Pt. 7)

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However, several other cases ended in death, including that of another Frenchwoman named Anne and her manservant. Anne Le Moine must have ...

The History of Sex: Geneva -- The Killjoy Capital of the World? -- (Chap. V, Pt. 6)

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But if all this makes the Protestant Rome sound like the Killjoy Capital of the World, at the time it had the opposite image problem, thanks...

The History of Sex: Geneva -- 'Fornicating Renegade Priests' -- (Chap. V, Pt. 5)

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By 1541, Calvin's allies had come to power in Geneva and begged him to return, effectively granting him carte blanche to turn the repub...

The History of Sex: Geneva -- John Calvin's Old-Fashioned Remedy For Lust -- (Chap. V, Pt. 4)

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Born the year before Luther's pilgrimage to Rome, Calvin is usually depicted as thin and sickly, with a long, drawn face, a needle nose ...

The History of Sex: Geneva -- Martin Luther and the Clergy Pimps -- (Chap. V, Pt. 3)

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One of the most fundamental shifts in male-female relations stemmed from the new Protestant view of the Virgin Mary. Luther and other Ref...

The History of Sex: Geneva -- Marriage: The Healthy Alternative? -- (Chap. V, Pt. 2)

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Luther and his fellow Reformers railed against Rome's corruption and preached marriage as a healthy alternative to celibacy. Within fi...

The History of Sex: Geneva -- Protesting Too Much?: From the 'Protestant Rome' to 'Le Petit Paris' -- (Chap. V, Pt. 1)

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Chapter Five PROTESTING TOO MUCH? From the 'Protestant Rome' to 'Le Petit Paris' in Geneva  'Twice a week is t...