Ranging from Henry VIII to testicle transplants, from Disneyland to sodomy laws, and from Moby Dick to artificial insemination, the history of heterosexuality turns out to be anything but straight or narrow. Illuminating the hidden patterns in centuries of events and trends, Blank shows how culture creates and manipulates the ways we think about and experience desire, love, and relationships between men and women. In this surprising chronicle, historian Hanne Blank digs deep into the past of sexual orientation, while simultaneously exploring its contemporary psyche. Yet, within half a century, أheterosexualؤ had become a byword for أnormal,ؤ enshrined in law, medicine, psychiatry, and the media as a new gold standard for human experience. After all, men and women had been having sex, marrying, building families, and sometimes even falling in love for millennia without having any special name for their emotions or acts. The idea of أthe heterosexualؤ was unprecedented. Her written works include Virgin: The Untouched History, Straight: The. The heterosexual was invented in the 1860s and swiftly and permanently transformed Western culture. Hanne Blank, also known as Hanne Blank Boyd, is an American historian, writer, and editor.
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