Timeline.Alta-glamour.com: Timeline
The alta-glamour.com timeline plots significant evnts in human history on the left with correlating benchmarks in the history of human sexuality on the right. Click on a date headline for an extended essay on the correlation. To become a contributing editor to the alta-glamour.com timeline, send an email to editor@alta-glamour.com
Historical Sexual 2009 Dutch scientist von Leeuwenhoek develops the microscope. (1674) 1674 1725 Casanova born. (2 April 1725)
French explorer and mathematician La Condamine brings back caoutchouc (raw rubber) from Amazon trip. (1736) 1736 Jacques de Vaucanson builds automaton duck (Spring 1739)
1739 1740 Marquis de Sade born. (2 June 1740)
1758 S. A. Tissot publishes On Onanism, or a Physical Dissertation on the Ills Produced by Masturbation. (1758)
Storming of the Bastille (14 July 1789)
1789 1834 Sylvester Graham writes Lecture to Young Men on Chastity. (1834)
Historical Sexual 1836 Leopold von Sacher-Masoch born. (27 January 1836)
The Daugerrotype is the first commercially available photographic reproduction. (1839) 1839 1844 Anthony Comstock, moral entrepreneur, born. (7 March 1844)
Goodyear patents vulcanization of rubber. (24 June 1844) 1844 1848 John Humphrey Noyes founds the Oneida Community in New York. (1848)
Kingdom of Denmark reorganized as a constitutional monarchy. (1849) 1849 Charles Darwin publishes On the Origins of Species. (1859)
1859 Jules Verne publishes Journey to the Center of the Earth (1863) 1863 Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi born. (2 October 1869)
1869 A.M. Ward sends his first mail order catalog. (1873)
1873 US Congress passes Comstock Act, prohibiting mailing of immoral, obscene, and indecent materials. (1873)
Historical Sexual Albert Einstein, German expatriat physicist, (and noted lover) is born. (1879) 1879 German physician Albert Neisser discovers bacterium that causes gonorrhea. (1879)
1880 Marie Stopes, world famous pioneer for family planning, is born. (15 October 1880)
Josef Breuer, Viennese physician, uses hypnosis to treat hysteria. (1882) 1882 1885 Sir Richard Francis Burton publishes The Arabian Nights. (1885)
Granville Stanley Hall founds the American Journal of Psychology. (1885) 1886 Krafft-Ebing publishes Psychopathia Sexualis. (1886)
H.W. Goodwin invents celluloid film. (1887) 1887 Christopher Lathan Sholes patents the QWERTY typewriter. (1898) 1898 Booker T. Washington publishes 'Up from Slavery.' (1901) 1901 Henry Havelock Ellis publishes first volumes of his work Studies in the Psychology of Sex (1901)
1903 Viennese author Otto Weininger pens "Sex and Character." (1903)
1908 Iwan Bloch publishes Sexual Life of Our Time, coins the term 'Sexology.' (1908)
Historical Sexual 1915 A Free Ride, considered the first stag film. (1915)
Sideshows, medicine shows, snake oil shows travel America. (1920s)
1920 1925 The state of Tennessee forbits sex education in public schools. (1925)
Margaret Mead publishes 'Coming of Age in Samoa,' an anthropological study of teens in other cultures. (1928) 1928 USA stock market crash, starting on Black Friday, leads to the great depression. (29 October 1929)
1929 1930 Tijuana Bibles begin circulating in the US. (1930s)
Carl Gustav Jung pens "Modern man in Search of a Soul" (1933) 1933 Hitler takes power in Germany after the burning of the Reichstag. (3 May 1933) 1933 1933 Nazis burn Magnus Hirschfeld's Institute for Sex Research, including its archive, in Berlin. (6 May 1933)
1933 Hugo Gernsback begins publishing Sexology magazine. (Summer 1933)
Historical Sexual 1936 Young's Rubber Company starts selling Trojans condoms. (1936)
1936 US 2nd Circuit Court of Appeals nullifies remainder of Comstock act. (1936)
Tampax begins distribution of menstrual tampons in the United States. (1938) 1938 Japanese bomb Pearl Harbor, bringing the US into World War II. (7 December 1941) 1941 Stanley Penska on Yonkers, NY, patents the "reservoir tip" condom. (1948) 1948 Alfred C. Kinsey publishes Sexual Behavior in the Human Male. (1948)
Julius and Ethel Rosenberg sentenced to death for espionage against the US. (1951) 1951 Beate Uhse opens her first Sexual Supermarket in West Germany. (1951)
Norman Vincent Peale publishes The Power of Positive Thinking. (1952) 1952 George becomes Christine Jorgensen. (1952)
Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay scale mount Everest. (1953) 1953 Alfred Kinsey publishes Sexual Behavior in the Human Female. (1953)
1953 Hugh Hefner publishes Playboy no. 1. (December 1953)
1956 Wilhelm Reich's publications burned by the U.S. FDA (August 1956)
Historical Sexual Supreme Court rules in 'Roth vs. US' that pornography must be utterly without redeeming social importance. (1957) 1957 SSSS: Society for the Scientific Study of Sexuality founded (1957)
1957 Searle releases Enovid birth control pill. (1957)
Hawaii becomes 50th state of the U.S. (1958) 1958 U.S. Postmaster General Summerfield bans D.H. Lawrence's "Lady Chatterley's Lover" from the mails on grounds of obscenity. (1958)
Jane Goodall observes chimpanzees in the wild using tools. (1960) 1960 Ira Reiss publishes Premarital Sexual Standards in America. (1960)
Instant color film introduced by the Polaroid Land Company. (1963) 1963 Betty Friedan pens The Feminine Mystique. (1963)
John F. Kennedy assassinated. (22 November 1963) 1963 1965 COLOR CLIMAX in Copenhagen starts producing and distributing explicit books and films. (1965)
1965 PRIVATE in Sweden starts producing and distributing explicit books and films. (1965)
NOW, the National Organization for Women, founded. (1966) 1966 Researchers Masters and Johnson publish Human Sexual Response (1966)
US Supreme court rules against pandering in 'Ginzburg v. US'. (1966) 1966 Ted Marche starts manufacturing and selling rubber dildos and other prosthetic sex devices. (1966)
Historical Sexual 1966 Adam Film Quarterly premier issue (1966)
1967 AASECT, the American Association of Sex Educators, Counselors, and Therapists is founded (1967)
1968 Al Goldstein and Jim Buckley start SCREW magazine in New York (November 1968)
1969 Alan Ginsburg gets naked in Golden Gate Park (August 1969)
1969 Police raid Stonewall Inn, a gay bar, setting off days of rioting. (1969)
Summer of Love culminates with Woodstock festival of love and music. (1969) 1969 Intel releases the 4004 chip. (1971) 1971 Technical Report of the Commission on Obscenity and Pornography published. (1971)
Atari releases home video game PONG. (1972) 1972 Gerard Damiano releases film DEEP THROAT (1972)
1972 OUI, from Playboy pubilshing, premier issue. (1972)
The American Psychiatric Association removes homosexuality from the DSM. (1973)
1973 Supreme Court ruling says that individual states may not stop abortions during the first six monts of pregnancy. (1973)
Historical Sexual President Richard Nixon resigns from office. (9 August 1974) 1974 Sony introduces the Betamax video format, doomed to failure. (1975) 1975 Ivan Stormgart comes to the United States. (1975)
JVC introduces VHS format for video tape. (1976) 1976 Reuben Sturman's company buys Doc Johnson, maker of erotic contrivances. (1976)
The Bakken Library and Museum of Electricity in Life moves to its present home. (1976)
1976 You premier issue (1976)
1976 Unique premier issue (March 1976)
1976 New Dawn premier issue (May 1976)
1976 High Society premier issue (May 1976)
1976 Fun! premier issue (1976)
1976 Cheri premier issue (1976)
1976 National Screw premier issue. (1976)
Historical Sexual Paul Allen and Bill Gates found Microsoft. (1977) 1977 Joani Blank founds Good Vibrations in San Francisco, CA. (1977)
1977 At Home premier issue (1977)
1977 New Pink premier issue, (1977)
1977 Eve premier issue (1977)
1977 Touch of Velvet premier issue (September 1977)
1977 Jock premier issue (1977)
Mt. St. Helens erupts. (1980) 1980 1980 Playbirds premier issue (May 1980)
US Centers for Disease Control first recognizes AIDS. (1981) 1981 Patrick J. Kearney publishes The Private Case, a study of the erotic collection at the British Library. (1981)
1983 Platinum premiere issue. (1983)
Historical Sexual 1986 Attorney General's Commission on Pornography (1986)
1987 Tail Ends premier issue (1987)
1988 T&A premier issue (February 1988)
bOING bOING issue #2 (1990)
1990 1991 Thigh High premier issue (Spring 1991)
1997 Tight premiere issue (June 1997)
1997 Carnal Knowledge premier issue (September/October 1997)
Terrorists hijack 2 planes and fly into the twin towers of the World Trade Center in New York City (11 September 2001) 2001 2001 Alta-Glamour.com launches Web site (September 2001)
2002 Earl Kemp, longtime porn pulp editor, begins publishing e*I* Fanzine (January 2002)
Historical Sexual 2003 Sheryl Straight starts The Erotica Bibliophile. (2003)
George W. Bush re-elected to a second term as US President. (November 2004)
2004 Kinsey, the Movie, opens in Los Angeles and New York. (12 November 2004)
2005 Editors William J. Taverner and Elizabeth Schroeder begin American Journal of Sexuality Education. (2005)
October 17, 2009
Illustrated Sex Timeline
Charles Carrington - Title Page Examples
Charles Carrington - Title Page ExamplesTitle Page Examples
A sampling of title pages from works published by CarringtonCopyright © 2003 Sheryl Straight
Viagraholics Anonymous - Quiz
Viagraholics Anonymous - QuizViagraholics Quiz
Take this quiz to find out if you could have a problem with Viagra.
- Have you been worried about your Viagra use?
- Has your wife or girlfriend complained that you are taking Viagra too often?
- Do you ever take Viagra even when you don't want to have sex, just to "get it up"?
- Have you ever missed work because of Viagra?
- Have you lied to a doctor to get Viagra?
- Do you take Viagra while alone?
- When confronted, do you deny using Viagra?
- Do you exceed your prescribed Viagra dosage?
- Have you changed your daily routine so that you can use Viagra?
- Do you hide your Viagra pills?
- Have you tried to quit Viagra for a week, but found yourself unable to go without it for more than a day?
- Do you take Viagra to feel better about yourself?
- Do you stash Viagra around your home or office?
- Do you become depressed or despondent when your Viagra supply runs out?
- Have you told yourself, "I can stop using Viagra anytime I want"?
If you answered yes to one or more of these questions, you may be a Viagraholic.
This quiz is informational and is not meant to be a substitute for diagnosis by a trained health professional.
Viagraholics Anonymous - Jack's Story
Viagraholics Anonymous - Jack's StoryJack's Story
He turned to Viagra to overcome low self-esteem...but found himself hitting a new kind of low when he couldn't stop his habit.
My name is Jack, and I'm a Viagraholic. Although I can admit it to myself and others now, for so long I was ashamed to look my problem in the eye, let alone give it a name.
Looking back, I can see the root of my problems in my childhood and adolescence. A small boy, I was always picked on in school and became highly competetive as a result. Although I excelled in many areas, high school was sheer torment for me, especially the teasing I got in the locker room and showers after PE and sports. You see, although my penis is more than average-sized when erect, it looks quite small when flaccid. I'm a "grower," not a "shower," but there was no way my classmates could know that, and so they tormented me ruthlessly.
Through college and into young adulthood, I bore the scars of these early experiences. My self-esteem was terrible, and I always felt inadequate. Due to my shyness around women, I rarely got dates, and when I did have sex I was amazed that the girl didn't laugh me out of bed. My self-consciousness inhibited my sexual performance, which made me feel even worse. The negative voices inside my head were almost unbearable.
It was a coworker at my office who first introduced me to Viagra. I had made a passing and somewhat bitter remark about my difficulties with women, and he said he had a "magic pill" that could help. Of course, I had heard of Viagra before - it just hadn't occurred to me that I could take it. I took one of the blue pills he offered me and called up my girlfriend at the time and invited her over for dinner. Twenty minutes before she arrived, I took the pill. We never cooked dinner that night. We had sex at least 7 times (I lost count) until we finally collapsed out of sheer exhaustion. My girlfriend was amazed! I knew I had to get more of those pills.
Like many guys who buy Viagra, I ordered some online. I made up a story about having erectile dysfunction. I knew I shouldn't lie, but I couldn't help it...I needed to get those pills. When I had used them all I got anxious. I had to get more! My girlfriend was starting to complain that all I wanted to do was have sex. I started to lose my focus at work, because I was obsessing about getting more Viagra. I sat in my cubicle all day surfing online pharmacy sites, trying to find the best deals on generic Viagra. My boss caught me at it and I got a warning, but I didn't care.
Soon I found I couldn't (or wouldn't) have sex without taking Viagra first. My girlfriend got fed up with my behavior and dumped me. At this point you'd think I'd no longer have use for Viagra, but I kept taking it anyway. I couldn't stop. I took so much of it that I started missing work. I couldn't go into the office because I couldn't control my erections. When I lost my job, I just stayed home all day, taking Viagra and masturbating. With no income, I ran up my credit cards to pay for my Viagra. I was in a downward spiral with no way out.
My friend Ben finally told me about Viagraholics Anonymous. I quit taking Viagra long enough to attend my first meeting, and with their support, I've been Viagra free for one year and six months. I have a new job, a new girlfriend, and I am able to enjoy sex without Viagra for the first time in years. Viagraholics Anonymous gave me my life back.
Sorry, Cinesmoke is no longer accepting orders. Cinesmoke - Smoking Videos - that's a bummer
Cinesmoke - Smoking Videos
POOL PUFFING (Don't Get My Cigarette Wet) $35 
Starring: Phi, Karina and Jo
Three beautiful girls. One pool. Lots of cigarettes. It's all Virginia Slims in this one, and the girls share two cigars. Jo, the redhead, is a pro smoker, but Phi and Karina not so. Karina (or "Katrina", as I like to call her in the video) hardly inhales, and her smoking is awkward. But Phi, yes let's talk about Phi, the asian girl, was my favorite, she normally only smokes socially, and started out lightly smoking in this video but by the end of it she was smoking like a regular. I'd turn the camera off at the end of a take and she'd keep smoking. She sits there with her cigarette and says to me "I'm getting used to these things." I'm like great why don't you say that on camera. But whatever.
Yes, I brought a tripod to the shoot. In fact, in a number of shots, you can see it in the background.
Actually, regarding the use of handheld camera, someone ought to thank me, I was walking around in four feet of water with a $5500 DVCam camera on my shoulder to get nice shots. The lengths I go to...
Except for the music, and the fact it looks nicer, this is kind of old school Cinesmoke in style, it's outdoors, handheld camera, using existing light. The first 24 min take place in the pool and is accompanied by music rather than live audio, after that we go to live audio as the girls relax on the patio having strawberries and cigarettes, and then they all enjoy a nice slice of Cinesmoke cake. You can't get it at your local bakery. A Cinesmoke cake has to have a nice design on it, and then beautiful girls have to light their cigarettes from it, and then they have to replace the candles with cigarettes, one cigarette per slice. That's how you get a Cinesmoke cake.
Then the girls head to the hottub to smoke some more and finish it all off by popping some balloons. No, I'm not catering to balloon people, the balloons were there so we did it for fun, Phi especially seemed to enjoy that.
I left in a couple awkward camera moves on the patio because they are accompanied by interesting comments from the girls. Enjoy the cinema verite feel, another trait of old school Cinesmoke videos. I actually like it quite a bit and it has inspired me creatively for future videos.
Running time: 38 min
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