Stone - Sex and the Constitution

ALSO BY GEOFFREY R. STONE

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Copyright 2017 by Geoffrey R. Stone

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The Library of Congress has cataloged the printed edition as follows:

Names: Stone, Geoffrey R., author.

Title: Sex and the constitution : sex, religion, and law from

Americas origins to the twenty-first century / Geoffrey R. Stone.

Description: First edition. | New York : Liveright Publishing Corporation,

2017. | Includes bibliographical references and index.

Identifiers: LCCN 2016047264 | ISBN 9780871404695 (hardcover)

Subjects: LCSH: Sex and lawUnited StatesHistory. | Sexual rights
United StatesHistory. | SexReligious aspectsChristianity.

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F or Julie, Mollie, Madeline,
Jackson, and Amaya

S ex, a great and mysterious motive force in
human life, has indisputably been a subject of
absorbing interest to mankind through the ages.

JUSTICE WILLIAM J. BRENNAN JR.
( ROTH V. UNITED STATES 1957)

CONTENTS

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Greek Pderasty. AN1967.304 attributed to the Brygos Painter, Attic red-figure cup showing a seated man with a naked boy in the inside tondo, 500401 BC, found at Vulci, Italy Ashmolean Museum, University of Oxford.

Hetaera Leaps into Basket Full of Dildos. Museo Archeologico Regionale Paolo Orsi Siracusa. Su concessione dell Assessorato Beni Culturali e dellIdentita Siciliana della Regione Sicilia.

Priapus.

Saint Augustine.

The Devil Prompting Lust. Seelentrost: Consolation of the Souls, Augsburg, Anton Sorg, 1483.

Saint Thomas Aquinas.

The Execution of the Sodomites. Execution in Bruges by burning of three friars for sodomy, 28 June, 1578 (colored engraving), Hogenberg, Franz (1540c.1590) / Bibliotheque Nationale, Paris, France / Bridgeman Images.

John Clelands Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure . John Cleland, Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure , 1766 edition.

Pietro Aretinos Ragionamenti (1535). Anonymous artist, engraving after Position 2 or 11, based on the original from I Modi by Marcantonio Raimondi.

Flagellation. Courtesy of the Rijsmuseum, Amsterdam.

Puritans. HathiTrust. History of the Pilgrims and Puritans, Their Ancestry and Descendants; Basis of Americanization . Vol. 1. William Elliot Griffis, editor. Century History Co., 1922.

Whipping Sinners. HathiTrust. History of the Pilgrims and Puritans, Their Ancestry and Descendants; Basis of Americanization . Vol. 1. William Elliot Griffis, editor. Century History Co., 1922.

The English Rogue (1666). Frontispiece and title page, The English Rogue Described in the Life of Meriton Latroon. London: F. Kirkman, 1666.

Flag with crosses. studio3321/123RF.

Thomas Jefferson. White House Historical Association.

Thomas Paine. National Portrait Gallery, London.

Signing of the Constitution. Howard Chandler Christy, Scene at the Signing of the Constitution of the United States , 1940. U.S. House of Representatives, Washington, D.C.

James Madison. Portrait of James Madison by John Vanderlyn, 1816. White House Historical Association.

John Adams. Naval Historical Center, Washington, D.C. U.S. Navy photo.

A Spasm Among the Populace, Cane Ridge, Kentucky, August 6, 1801. Library of Congress, Prints & Photographs Div., Washington, D.C. LC-B2-4050-2.

Charles Grandison Finney. Library of Congress, Prints & Photographs Div., Washington, D.C. LC-USZ62-119893.

Anti-Masturbation Devices. Wellcome Library, London.

Frances Wright. Library of Congress, Prints & Photographs Div., Washington, D.C. LC-B2-39344.

Anthony Comstock. Charles Galludet Trumbull, Anthony Comstock, Fighter (1913).

The Weekly Rake , July 8, 1842. Courtesy, American Antiquarian Society.

Horace Liveright. Liveright Publishing Corporation.

Mae West. Library of Congress, Prints & Photographs Div., Washington D.C. LC USZ62-119963.

Margaret Sanger, Brownsville Clinic, October 1916. Library of Congress, Prints & Photographs Div., Washington, D.C. LC-B2-4050-2.

The Arrest of Madame Restell, February 1878. From the February 1878 edition of the New York Illustrated Times .

The Inaugural Issue of Margaret Sangers The Woman Rebel .

The Masses , September 1915.

Pansies of America membership certificate. From George Chauncey, Gay New York: Gender, Urban Culture and the Making of the Gay Male World, 18901940 . Basic Books, New York, 1995.

Havelock Ellis. Library of Congress, Prints & Photographs Div., Washington, D.C. LC USZ62-60984.

Night No. 10 in Fairy-Land. From George Chauncey, Gay New York: Gender, Urban Culture and the Making of the Gay Male World, 18901940 . Basic Books, New York, 1995.

1920s Drag Ball. Schlesinger Library, Radcliffe Institute, Harvard University.

Frank Kameny, July 4, 1965. Photo by Kay Tobin Manuscripts and Archives Division, The New York Public Library.

Soldiers in Drag. Courtesy of the estate of George Osepchuk.

Stonewall, June 28, 1969. New York Daily News Archive / Getty Images.

Anita Bryant. Photofest, NYC.

Without Redeeming Social Value, Roth v. United States (1957).

Samuel Roth. Samuel Roth papers, 19071994, Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Columbia University in the City of New York.

Justice William J. Brennan Jr. Collection of the Supreme Court of the United States.

Chief Justice Warren E. Burger. Collection of the Supreme Court of the United States.

Ronald Reagan and Edwin Meese, the Oval Office. Ronald Reagan Presidential Library / NARA.

Reuben Sturman. Cleveland Police Records photo, courtesy of Cleveland magazine.

Alberto Gonzales. U.S. Department of Justice.

George Carlin.

Sally Rand. Photograph by Maurice Seymour, Courtesy of Ronald Seymour.

Karen Finley. Photograph by Rick McGinnis. All rights reserved.

Estelle Griswold, A Right of Privacy Older Than the Bill of Rights, Griswold v. Connecticut (1965). Lee Lockwood / The LIFE Images Collection / Getty Images.