History 2181A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Foreskin, Scrotum, Secularism

• School: Western University
• Department: History
• Course: History 2181A/B
• Professor: Monda Halpern

Document Summary

With the advent and popularity of christianity, and the biblical story of the creation and the fall of man (adam and eve) the church created, legislated, reinforced, regulated and punished all ideas/practices related to sexuality. It (cid:449)as(cid:374)"t u(cid:374)til the (cid:862)e(cid:374)lighte(cid:374)(cid:373)e(cid:374)t pe(cid:396)iod(cid:863) (cid:894)toda(cid:455)s le(cid:272)tu(cid:396)e(cid:895) that this power the church had would decrease, and it would be replaced by the influence of medicine and science. Ho(cid:449)e(cid:448)er it would still be much longer until the inferior status of women and stigma of homosexuality would be alleviated. The enlightenment period is a period of significant and revolutionary transformation in ideas about the body, about physiology, about understanding anatomy, about the differences between men and women. All ideas that were understood before this point are now rendered obsolete, out dated. All these new ideas based on science came into play, or at least science as it was in the 18th century (not our standard now).