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Want to dig deeper? Books, films, and a couple of practical supplies — half history seminar, half the pamphlet school skipped. Fewer titles, on purpose.
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Books
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How a medieval coinage picked up more moral freight than a freight train. Saints, penitentials, and the occasional bonfire — the book to read if you want to know why the word still makes legislators twitch.
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The book that made medievalists argue at dinner parties. National Book Award winner, still fiercely cited, and the doorway into the archive — even when later scholars spend chapters arguing with it.
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Genesis 19 as a story people kept rewriting. Carden tracks Jewish and Christian readings from antiquity to the Reformation and argues the homophobic Sodom is a later Christian invention — hospitality, not a bedroom, was the older charge.
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A Houston bedroom, a questionable raid, and the 2003 opinion that retired the American sodomy statute. Carpenter interviewed nearly everyone and still writes like a detective novel with footnotes.
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From 'crime against nature' to Lawrence, statute by statute. Yale's Eskridge actually read the codes — McCarthy, Whitman, Hoover, and the long American habit of policing the bedroom from the capitol.
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What happened after the bedroom was no longer a crime scene: Hawaii, Goodridge, backlash statutes, and the odd way courts both sped up and blew up the marriage fight. Read it after Carpenter, not instead of him.
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Before the closet was a metaphor, it was a street, a cafeteria, and a raid. Chauncey reconstructs the world the statutes were aimed at — and the one they failed to erase.
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The pamphlet your health class did not hand out. Morin treats anatomy like anatomy — nerves, habits, hemorrhoids, and the occasional compliment to a much-maligned portal.
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Despite the title, the second edition is a consent-first owner's manual for any pairing — anatomy, hygiene, communication, and how to ignore a century of bad advice. Cleis, not a skin flick with a table of contents.
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Not a sodomy manual — a map of how desire, stress, and context actually work. Read this before anyone starts issuing technique advice like a drill sergeant.
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Scarleteen in book form: consent, boundaries, safer sex, and the right to say 'not yet' without a lecture. Written for younger readers; useful for anyone whose sex-ed was a VHS and a warning.
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The German penal code that criminalized sex between men, and the survivors who outlived it. History at human scale — not a metaphor, a record.
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ACT UP, TAG, and the archival footage of people who refused to die politely. Oscar-nominated proof that health policy is just law with a body count.
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A century of Hollywood trying to have it both ways: queer subtext for ticket sales, a Production Code for the police. Russo's book, Epstein and Friedman's clips, Lily Tomlin on the mic.
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Two formulas, not a toy wall. Friction is an injury vector. These stay off Law and History.
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A thicker water-based gel, glycerin-free, for when anatomy and physics disagree. Friction is an injury vector; this is the boring, correct intervention.
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Four ingredients, a glass pump, and a long glide. Silicone lasts; skip it on silicone toys. The adult equivalent of wearing shoes that fit.
View on AmazonNot medical or legal advice. Lube is not a diagnosis. If something hurts, stop and talk to a clinician who will not blush.
Free reports
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A short, cited briefing: what the word meant, what Lawrence did, and which countries still treat a bedroom as a crime scene. When it ships, it will sit on Gumroad or Podia — not in a popup.
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No live SKUs yet. When Printful is connected, these four slogans are the ones that ship — not the crude list from the old brief.
LEGAL-2003
Lawrence v. Texas, in four words. A date, not a punchline.
SURVIVED-LAWS
For the jurisdictions that took their time. Wear it in Texas if you must.
CONSENT-HOT
The only slogan that belongs next to the health guides.
LUBE-IS-LOVE
Public-health messaging with better merchandising. Still not a sex-shop window.