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Useful links

 * YouTube Jeanne Humberdt

Vibrators



 * https://www.dameproducts.com/blogs/news/sexual-history-the-origins-of-the-vibrator
 * https://www.nytimes.com/2018/02/06/books/review/buzz-lieberman-vibrator-nation-comella-sex-toys.html
 * https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=pbFoBgAAQBAJ&pg=PA100&dq=new+views+on+pornography&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwiJm-ygmLzrAhXToFwKHYjKBYUQ6AEwAHoECAUQAQ#v=onepage&q=new%20views%20on%20pornography&f=false
 * https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=1YQ6DwAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover&dq=buzz+sex&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjmxLybmrzrAhUmTxUIHVyBCJYQ6AEwAHoECAIQAQ#v=onepage&q=buzz%20sex&f=false

Rabbit

 * https://www.nowtolove.com.au/health/sex/sex-and-the-city-charlotte-rabbit-52542
 * https://www.bustle.com/p/13-sex-toys-from-sex-the-city-where-to-buy-them-18555366
 * https://www.forbes.com/sites/lynncomella/2018/08/07/20-years-later-how-the-sex-and-the-city-vibrator-episode-created-a-lasting-buzz/#24ccbb4d649b
 * https://www.cosmopolitan.com/sex-love/advice/a4805/history-of-the-rabbit/
 * https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2007/sep/09/familyandrelationships3
 * https://www.cosmopolitan.com/sex-love/advice/a4805/history-of-the-rabbit/
 * https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2007/sep/09/familyandrelationships3

Magic Wand

 * https://www.cosmopolitan.com/sex-love/a14105499/hitachi-magic-wand-history/

Sex toys

 * https://www.irishmirror.ie/news/weird-news/50-caves-grey-stone-age-4991694
 * https://wonder.ph/popculture/weird-origin-of-sex-toys/
 * https://allthatsinteresting.com/history-of-sex-toys
 * https://www.iflscience.com/editors-blog/the-weird-and-wonderful-history-of-sex-toys-from-the-stone-age-to-modern-day/all/

Sex toys stigma

 * https://wonder.ph/life/sex-toys-stigma/
 * https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0181198

Sex toys health and safety

 * https://www.wired.co.uk/article/sex-toy-bluetooth-hacks-security-fix

Sex toys pregnancy

 * https://www.babycentre.co.uk/x566461/is-it-safe-to-masturbate-or-use-sex-toys-during-pregnancy

Sex toys liberating/oppressive

 * https://www.bustle.com/p/5-fascinating-facts-about-the-history-of-sex-toys-7671741

Sex toys industry

 * https://www.etsy.com/shop/GoblinDildoEmporium
 * https://www.bbc.co.uk/bbcthree/article/b2b45efc-3141-4994-84db-d41178124225
 * https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/founder-of-islamic-sensual-pleasure-brand-talks-about-journey-from-amsterdam-to-mecca-10202557.html
 * https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/9aep95/halal-vibrations-exploring-an-x-rated-muslim-sex-shop

Sex education

 * https://wonder.ph/life/omgyes-emma-watson/

Plallus art

 * https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/24/world/asia/bhutan-phallus-commercialization-tourism.html
 * Phallus paintings in Bhutan

Sex toy history?
Excavations of ancient civilizations prove that dildos have been around nearly as long as humans have. Stone objects found resembling penises are believed to have been used symbolically in religious or fertility rituals; yet certain moral standards could prevent the archeologists who discovered the stone dildos from admitting that they found the earliest sex toys. The idea of hysteria from lack of sexual activity was first introduced in Greek culture--men would give their wives olisbos, or dildos, while they were away at war. As far as other ancient civilizations go, Italians gave the word diletto, meaning "to delight", which further developed into the english word "dildo". Vibrators were invented by Dr. Joseph Mortimer Granville in London, 1883. His work primarily consisted of treating sleeplessness, yet his use of vibrators was aimed towards women with hysteria--much like the Greeks use of the dildo. His goal was strictly treating disorders and diseases. When women receiving treatment with Dr. Granville's "hammer", as it was called, realized it's pleasing abilities, word of it spread.

Strap-on history
History== Due to the often taboo nature of strap-on activities, information on their history is difficult to find. Many artifacts from the Upper Paleolithic, known as perforated batons, have been found that some archaeologists believe to be dildos, including a double "baton" with a hole in the middle, theorized to be for a strap to hold it to a wearer.

Female-female dildo usage in ancient China has been documented, but it is not clear if this was double-dildos, strap-on dildos, or just a simple dildo being used by one woman on another.

In ancient Greece, dildos were made of stone or padded leather, and some evidence shows aforementioned leather was used to make a harness as well, with olive oil used for anal penetration.

The Kama Sutra(2nd century CE) includes mention of dildos (darshildo in Hindi) made from a wide variety of materials, and used by hand, with ties (straps), or in a harness.

A double-penetration dildo was found in ancient France, but its use is lost to time.

A 19th-century Chinese painting shows a woman using a dildo strapped to her shoe, showing that creative use of strap-ons was already well under way.

An 1899 report by Michael Haberlandt documented current and historical use of double-ended dildos in Zanzibar, and is one of the few historical documents of this kind.

Dildo history
Dildos in one form or another have existed widely in history. Artifacts from the Upper Paleolithic of a type called bâton de commandement have been speculated to have been used for sexual purposes. Few archaeologists consider these items as sex toys, but archaeologist Timothy Taylor put it, "Looking at the size, shape, and—some cases—explicit symbolism of the ice age batons, it seems disingenuous to avoid the most obvious and straightforward interpretation. But it has been avoided."

The first dildos were made of stone, tar, wood, bone, ivory, limestone, teeth, and other materials that could be shaped as penises and that were firm enough to be used as penetrative sex toys. Scientists believe that a 20-centimeter siltstone phallus from the Upper Palaeolithic period 30,000 years ago, found in Hohle Fels Cave near Ulm, Germany, may have been used as a dildo. Prehistoric double-headed dildos have been found which date anywhere from 13–19,000 years ago. Various paintings from ancient Egypt around 3000 BCE feature dildos being used in a variety of ways. In medieval times, a plant called the “cantonese groin” was soaked in hot water to enlarge and harden for women to use as dildos. Dildo-like breadsticks, known as olisbokollikes (sing. olisbokollix), were known in Ancient Greece prior to the 5th century BC. In Italy during the 1400s, dildos were made of leather, wood, or stone. Chinese women in the 15th century used dildos made of lacquered wood with textured surfaces, and were sometimes buried with them. Nashe's early-1590s work The Choice of Valentines mentions a dildo made from glass. Dildos also appeared in 17th and 18th century Japan, in shunga. In these erotic novels, women are shown enthusiastically buying dildos, some made out of water buffalo horns.

Dildos were not just used for sexual pleasure. Examples from the Eurasia Ice Age (40,000-10,000 BCE) and Roman era are speculated to have been used for defloration rituals. This isn't the only example of dildos being used for ritual ceremonies, as people in 4000 BCE Pakistan used them to worship the god Shiva.

Many references to dildos exist in the historical and ethnographic literature. Haberlandt, for example, illustrates single and double-ended wooden dildos from late 19th century Zanzibar. With the invention of modern materials, making dildos of different shapes, sizes, colors and textures became more practical.

Ancient Greece
Dildos may be seen in some examples of ancient Greek vase art. Some pieces show their use in group sex or in solitary female masturbation. One vessel, of about the sixth century BCE, depicts a scene in which a woman bends over to perform oral sex on a man, while another man is about to thrust a dildo into her anus.

They are mentioned several times in Aristophanes' comedy of 411 BCE, Lysistrata.


 * LYSISTRATA
 * And so, girls, when fucking time comes… not the faintest whiff of it anywhere, right? From the time those Milesians betrayed us, we can’t even find our eight-fingered leather dildos. At least they’d serve as a sort of flesh-replacement for our poor cunts… So, then! Would you like me to find some mechanism by which we could end this war?

Herodas' short comic play, Mime VI, written in the 3rd Century BCE, is about a woman called Metro, anxious to discover from a friend where she recently acquired a dildo.


 * METRO
 * I beg you, don't lie,
 * dear Corrioto: who was the man who stitched for you this bright red dildo?

She eventually discovers the maker to be a man called Kerdon, who hides his trade by the front of being a cobbler, and leaves to seek him out. Metro and Kerdon are main characters in the next play in the sequence, Mime VII, when she visits his shop.

Page duBois, a classicist and feminist theorist, suggests that dildos were present in Greek art because the ancient Greek male imagination found it difficult to conceive of sex taking place without penetration. Therefore, female masturbation or sex between women required an artificial phallus to be used. Greek dildos were often made out of leather stuffed with wool in order to give it varying degrees of thickness and firmness. They were often lubricated with olive oil, and used for sexual practice and other activities. The Greeks were also one of the first groups to use the term “toy” in reference to a dildo.

Talmud
The Talmud's Avodah Zarah Tractate records the interpretation which Rav Yosef bar Hiyya gave to the Biblical reference of King Asa of Judah having "(...) deposed his grandmother Maakah from her position as Queen Mother, because she had made a repulsive image for the worship of Asherah. Asa cut it down and burned it in the Kidron Valley". According to Rav Yosef, Maakah had installed "a kind of male organ" on her Asherah image "in order to fulfill her desire", and was "mating with it every day". Rav Yosef's words are quoted by Rashi in his own interpretation of 2 Chronicles 15:16. Whether or not Rav Yosef was right in attributing this practice to the Biblical Queen, his speaking of it indicates that Jews in 3rd Century Mesopotamia were familiar with such devices.

Early modern period
In the early 1590s, the English playwright Thomas Nashe wrote a poem known as The Choice of Valentines, Nashe's Dildo or The Merrie Ballad of Nashe his Dildo. This was not printed at the time, due to its obscenity but it was still widely circulated and made Nashe's name notorious. The poem describes a visit to a brothel by a man called "Tomalin"; he is searching for his sweetheart, Francis, who has become a prostitute. The only way he can see her is to hire her. However, she resorts to using a glass dildo as he finds himself unable to perform sexually to her satisfaction.

Dildos are humorously mentioned in Act IV, scene iv of Shakespeare's The Winter's Tale. This play and Ben Jonson's play The Alchemist (1610) are typically cited as the first use of the word in publication (Nashe's Merrie Ballad was not published until 1899).

John Wilmot, the seventeenth-century English libertine, published his poem Signor Dildo in 1673. During the Parliamentary session of that year, objections were raised to the proposed marriage of James, Duke of York, brother of the King and heir to the throne, to Mary of Modena, an Italian Catholic princess. An address was presented to King Charles on 3 November, foreseeing the dangerous consequences of marriage to a Catholic, and urging him to put a stop to any planned wedding '...to the unspeakable Joy and Comfort of all Your loyal Subjects." Wilmot's response was Signior Dildo (You ladies all of merry England), a mock address anticipating the 'solid' advantages of a Catholic marriage, namely the wholesale importation of Italian dildos, to the unspeakable joy and comfort of all the ladies of England:


 * You ladies all of merry England
 * Who have been to kiss the Duchess's hand,
 * Pray, did you not lately observe in the show
 * A noble Italian called Signor Dildo? ...


 * A rabble of pricks who were welcomed before,
 * Now finding the porter denied them the door,
 * Maliciously waited his coming below
 * And inhumanly fell on Signor Dildo ...

This ballad was subsequently added to by other authors, and became so popular that Signor became a term for a dildo. In the epilogue to The Mistaken Husband (1674), by John Dryden, an actress complains:


 * To act with young boys is loving without men.
 * What will not poor forsaken women try?
 * When man's not near, the Signior must supply.

 Signor Dildo was set to music by Michael Nyman for the 2004 biopic, The Libertine.

Many other works of bawdy and satirical English literature of the period deal with the subject. Dildoides: A Burlesque Poem (London, 1706), attributed to Samuel Butler, is a mock lament to a collection of dildos that had been seized and publicly burnt by the authorities. Examples of anonymous works include The Bauble, a tale (London, 1721) and Monsieur Thing's Origin: or Seignor D---o's Adventures in London, (London, 1722). In 1746, Henry Fielding wrote The Female Husband: or the surprising history of Mrs Mary, alias Mr. George Hamilton, in which a woman posing as a man uses a dildo. This was a fictionalized account of the story of Mary Hamilton.

20th century
Dildos are obliquely referred to in Saul Bellow's novel The Adventures of Augie March (1953): "....he had brought me along to a bachelor's stag where two naked acrobatic girls did stunts with false tools". A dildo called Steely Dan III from Yokohama appears in the William S. Burroughs novel The Naked Lunch (1959). The rock band Steely Dan took their name from it.

21st century
In 2017, dark web privacy researcher Sarah Jamie Lewis connected a vibrator (using reverse engineering) to Tor, the anonymity network, in a proof of concept demonstrating the applicability of privacy technology after the fact.

Harem

 * https://www.cbr.com/weird-rules-harem-anime-follow/
 * https://www.cbr.com/harem-anime-things-rarely-often-seen/

Reverse Harem

 * https://clstonebooks.com/2018/02/04/reverse-harem-in-western-fiction/
 * https://bookriot.com/reverse-harem-romance-novels/
 * https://sites.duke.edu/unsuitable/reverse-harem-romance/
 * https://www.villainesse.com/culture/reverse-harem-polyamorous-romance-genre-tearing-amazon-charts
 * https://romanticnovelistsassociation.org/2019/01/mel-gough-reverse-harem-an-old-fantasy-turned-on-its-head/
 * https://intuitivewritingguide.wordpress.com/2018/02/19/writing-romance-what-is-reverse-harem/
 * https://www.rageagainstthemanuscript.com/aboutsteff?r_done=1
 * https://jennitalula.wordpress.com/2018/05/02/guest-post-on-writing-reverse-harem-or-so-where-do-all-the-limbs-go-by-steff-green/
 * https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=cjqQDwAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover&dq=writing+reverse+harem&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwiqvPmUst7rAhVyUBUIHTCmBygQ6AEwAHoECAIQAQ#v=onepage&q=writing%20reverse%20harem&f=false
 * https://www.cbr.com/best-harem-anime-of-the-2000s-imdb/ (ouran high)
 * https://www.cbr.com/reverse-harem-anime-tropes-annoying/

Manga and Anime

 * https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=uY8700WJy_gC&printsec=frontcover&dq=harem+genre&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjY1aK6n9_rAhUS9IUKHSq_AZAQuwUwCHoECAkQBg#v=onepage&q=harem%20genre&f=false

Sex Wars Timeline
1977 WAVPM founded, SF 1978 Samois founded, SF 1978, Nov. Samois unsuccessfully seeks mtg with WAVAW Leather Menace organizes 1979, Jan  Samois public presentation @ Old Wives Tales bookstore 1979, June Samois marches in Gay Day Parade, sells "What Color is Your Handkerchief?" 1980, June Samois marches in Gay Day Parade as 20 women and 1 child 1980, October National Organisation of Women Declares "pederasty, pornography, sadomasochism and public sex" not "sexual preference or orientation". The "Big Four" are born. The Body Politic, Canada

1981, Feb. Samois nominated for Cable Car award Leather Menace organizes 1981, May Samois has problems renting space at Women's Building because of SM concerns Leather Menace organizes 1981 Heresies publishes "Sex Issue" The Body Politic, Canada 1981, Sep Samois Ms Leather contest 1981, Nov. Coming to Power by Samois 1st printing 1982 Barnard College "Pleasure and Danger" Conference Sex Wars

Useful refs

 * 1995 Sex Wars Redux Legal Aspects of the Feminist Sex Wars
 * Sex Wars redux feminist legal studies post sex wars
 * legal aspects sex wars
 * http://www.glbtqarchive.com/ssh/lesbian_sex_wars_S.pdf

Forced shaving of women


The forced head shaving of women is a traditional form of public humiliation for adulterous women dating back to the Bible which attributed purification powers to it. The use of forced shaving of women has been wide-spread in 20th century post-war Europe, instances being recorded in Belgium, France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Norway and Spain Although forced shaving was almost always a punishment inflicted on women there have been rare instances when men have been the victims. Professor of French Hanna Diamond states that after D-Day and the liberation of France “head shaving was an extremely complex phenomenon, loaded with a symbolic importance which functioned on several levels”.

At the end of the second world war the épuration sauvage (wild purge) led to at least 20,000 French women accused of horizontal collaboration, or sleeping with the enemy, being publicly humiliated with forced head shaving with some being paraded half naked, stoned, beaten and, rarely, killed. In many cases the women had only been engaged for professional services by the Germans and had no intimate interactions.

Symbolism
According to Antoine Buisson the stigmatisation of “The Shorns” during the épuration sauvage was a “reaffirmation of the country’s rights over the women’s bodies and the recovery of male control over women’s sexuality” following the “erotic shock” of the German occupation.

History
Forced shaving was used by the Visigoths during the Dark Ages, with an intention to shame by depriving the woman of “her most seductive feature”.

During the Franco-era Spanish Republican women report suffering many violent crimes including forced shaving as well as rape, torture and murder. However, because of the Spanish 1977 Amnesty Law no court proceedings have been brought.

A week after the liberation of Paris in 1944, women deemed collaborators of the Nazi regime, specially those accused of being romantically or sexually involved with German men, were being punished in France with head shaving and were often paraded through the streets as a way of humiliation, often before being sent to jail. The picture The Shaved Woman of Chartres depicts one of these women, Simone Touseau, aged 23 years old, who had been a translator working for the Germans and was in a relation with a German soldier since 1941, and who bore him a daughter, still a baby when the event took place. She was also accused of denouncing neighbours, who ended up being deported, which she denied. The picture depicts her, carrying her daughter on her arms, after the head shaving had taken place and her forehead had been marked in red with an iron as a sign of collaborationism, while she is being paraded in the streets of Chartres, followed by a number of people, including women, children and policemen. Her father walks ahead, carrying a bag, while her mother, who suffered the same punishment. Touseau is being escorted home, from where she would go to jail.

In the Netherlands it was assumed that women who consorted with German soldiers were both prostitutes and a lower socioeconomic-economic class which meant that working-class women were the main victims of post-war forced shaving. Those who performed the shaving came from many parts of Dutch society although we’re primarily male and included neighbours, adult men, groups of teenage boys, the local hairdressers and men of the resistance movement. T

In popular media

 * 1979. The song Shaved Women appears on the anarcho-punk band Crass’s second album, Stations of the Crass, It questions the labelling of shaved women as collaborators and traitors. The lyrics were an Annie Anxiety poem, sung by Eve Libertine.
 * 1944. The Shaved Woman of Chartres is a black and white photograph taken by Robert Capa in Chartres on 16 August 1944. It was published shortly after in Life magazine and became iconic of the épuration sauvage (wild purge) enacted after the liberation of France and the severe punishment imposed on the French women accused of collaborationism with the German occupiers.
 * 1959. In Hiroshima mon amour (1959), the female protagonist of the film is revealed to have been shaven as punishment because of her relationship with a German soldier. The French New Wave film visually links the suffering of women forcibly shaved after D-Day with the loss of hair of survivors of the atomic bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
 * 2000 In the film Malèna a woman in wartime Sicily is punished for her beauty and for liasing with German soldiers by the local women ripping off her clothes, beating her and shaving her hair.
 * 2010 Collaboration horizontale is a documentary exploring what happened to the baby shown in the photo of The Shaved Woman of Chartres.
 * 2017. The documentary La Tondue de Chartres (2017), directed by Patrick Cabouat, is about the photograph The Shaved Woman of Chartres and the 23 year old translator Simone Touseau and her baby daughter from a 3 year relationship with a German soldier which it depicted
 * 2018. Novel featuring a character accused of horizontal collaboration,
 * 2019 Graphic novel Horizontal Collaboration tells the story of a liaison between a French woman and a German soldier in wartime France.

Porn Studies
Porn Studies is the academic study of pornography.

possible PS refs

 * https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=Jni3DAAAQBAJ&pg=PA73&dq=porn+studies&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwic2Ne7ru7rAhVko3EKHcK_AfwQ6AEwB3oECAgQAQ#v=onepage&q=porn%20studies&f=false
 * https://www.tandfonline.com/toc/rprn20/7/2?nav=tocList
 * https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/2374623816631727?icid=int.sj-abstract.similar-articles.1

Lynn Comella
Lynn Comella is Associate Professor of Gender and Sexuality Studies at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. She is an interdisciplinary scholar trained in cultural studies Comella has written many articles for both academic journals and popular media and is author of Vibrator Nation: How Feminist Sex-Toy Stores Changed the Business of Pleasure. In it she argues that the growth of the sex toy industry mirrors the rise of feminism and women entering the market. Her spheres of research include Porn Studies, Communication Studies and Feminist Studies Collaborators include Shira Tarrant and Carol Queen.

Education
Comella received a Ph. D in Communications from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst an M.A. in Gender Studies and Feminist Theory from the New School for Social Research and a B.A. in Psychology (Highest Distinction) with minors in Anthropology and Women’s Studies from the Pennsylvania State University.

Awards
2015 Comella received the Nevada Regents’ Rising Researcher award.

Author

 * Lynn Comella (2008) Looking Backward: Barnard and its Legacies, The Communication Review, 11:3, 202-211, DOI: 10.1080/10714420802306627
 * Comella, L. (2013). From text to context: Feminist porn and the making of a market. The feminist porn book: The politics of producing pleasure, 79-93.
 * Lynn Comella (2014) Studying porn cultures, Porn Studies, 1:1-2, 64-70, DOI: 10.1080/23268743.2014.882611
 * “Positively Fat and Queer: an interview with indie porn insider Courtney Trouble” in
 * Comella, L. (2015). Revisiting the Feminist Sex Wars. Feminist Studies, 41(2), 437-462. doi:10.15767/feministstudies.41.2.437
 * Lynn Comella (2017), Sex Toys and Social Entrepreneurship: the future is feminist
 * Lynn Comella (2017), Sex Toys and Social Entrepreneurship: the future is feminist

Potentials

 * Vibrator Nation
 * New Views Porn
 * Trans Porn
 * https://www.lynncomella.com/blog
 * https://www.timeshighereducation.com/books/review-vibrator-nation-how-feminist-sex-toy-stores-changed-the-business-of-pleasure-lynn-comella-duke-university-press
 * https://www.unlv.edu/news/article/sex-toys-and-social-entrepreneurship-future-feminist
 * Comella, L. (2015). Revisiting the Feminist Sex Wars. Feminist Studies, 41(2), 437-462. doi:10.15767/feministstudies.41.2.437
 * https://www.nytimes.com/2018/02/06/books/review/buzz-lieberman-vibrator-nation-comella-sex-toys.html
 * https://www.researchgate.net/scientific-contributions/2002761301-Lynn-Comella
 * https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1525/ctx.2008.7.3.61?icid=int.sj-full-text.similar-articles.1
 * https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2017/09/vibrator-nation-comella-mainstream/539382/
 * https://www.ladyscience.com/reviews/more-than-just-sex-toys-lynn-comella-vibrator-nation
 * https://www.bitchmedia.org/article/remembering-good-vibrations-founder-joani-blank-1937-2016
 * https://muckrack.com/lynn-comella/articles
 * https://ideasonfire.net/59-lynn-comella/
 * https://lsa.umich.edu/content/michigan-lsa/wgs/en/news-events/all-events.detail.html/45894-10321774.html