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- Choosing to be the man of the house
An ancient tradition of the sworn virgin living as a male still survives in Albania
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2007
In Albania, biological women take an oath of virginity to have the freedom to live as men. They wear men's clothes and their hair is shorn. The tradition has persisted since the 15th century, in a region where ancient laws still limit women's rights.
- Droit de seigneur
Resource Type: Article
A term used to describe an alleged legal right allowing the lord of an estate to take the virginity of the estate's virgins.
- A History of Celibacy
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2001
This book, mixing both anthropogy and history traces celibacy during the ages. Citing various cultures (Persian, Chinese, Greek, Roman, Europe in the Middle Ages etc.) she explores the power of celibacy and it's offence (that it is unnatural). The book in essence is a history of civilization from one particular angle. Written with both humour and anger it documents some of the strangeness of the world.
- Sex in History
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1980
Tannahill draws on the findings of anthropology, archaeology, bio-chemistry, genetics, physiology, and psychoanalysis, as well as art, architecture, literature, and theology, in order to place the human sex drive and its social and moral consequences in their widest historical perspective.
- Sex-Pol
Essays 1929-1934
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1972
Wilhelm Reich's writings from his Marxist period, outlining his thoughts about sexual and political liberation.
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