Concerns about sexualisation of young women appear even in the late Middle Ages.
Medieval
The Pustulent Penis: Searching for STDs in the Centuries before Syphilis
John of Gaunt ‘died of putrefaction of his genitals and body’.
Bad for the Soul, Good for the Body: Religion, Medicine and Masturbation in the Middle Ages
The monk could no longer be considered a virgin, since he has been ‘polluted…through masturbation’.
Her Virginal Members: Chastity and Sexual Desire in the Middle-Ages
‘Virginity is often lost and chastity outraged without any commerce with another’.
John Rykener Revisited: Transvestite Male Prostitute or Biting Political Satire?
The Rykener case gives voice to dissent in the form of political satire.
The Perfect Corpse: Death, Virginity and the Bishop in Medieval Europe
Lietbert was renowned for his piety, and in particular his sexual continence.
"The Gay Bulge" or Can We Study Medieval Sexuality Through Puns?
Perhaps sometimes a ‘gay bulge’ is just a gae bolga.
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