History 2181A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Foreskin, Secularism, Scrotum
6 Mar 2018
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Background, part 2: the scientific evolution of sexuality. Midterm: 5 questions, 2 parts (2 points), aka the test is worth 10, 30 minutes long. 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. Enlightenment period: 18th century europe (1700, medi(cid:272)i(cid:374)e a(cid:374)d s(cid:272)ie(cid:374)(cid:272)e (cid:271)e(cid:272)a(cid:373)e the (cid:862)(cid:374)e(cid:449) (cid:396)eligio(cid:374)(cid:863, however it would still be much longer until the inferior status of women and stigma of homosexuality would be alleviated. This era is generally regarded as a turning point in the decline of the church. This is when the influence of the church began to plummet, particularity in terms of shaping and regulating sexuality. In this era, we have the emergence of modern medical understanding of genitalia and sexuality. It was a revolutionary movement of intellectual and political change in the 18th century in europe.
