Hello there!

This post is to welcome the new visitors to my blog over the next three days. I will be visiting the American Historical Association to present as a part of Reddit’s AskHistorians Community. Here is a link to our presentation.

If you’re reading this blog as a new reader at any time in the next three days, there’s a good chance I met you in person and gave you my card! I would like to welcome you to my blog–which is really the rough draft of my first book, expected in March or April of this year. I would invite you to start at the very beginning of this blog/book as to make better sense of what is going on, but here is a link to some of my most popular posts/series:

On Pietro Aretino, the ‘father’ of pornography: Pietro Aretino: The ‘Father’ of Pornography. Part I: Origins and Inspiration

On marriage and the ‘invention of privacy:’ Sex Behind Closed Doors: Marriage, and the Invention of Privacy

On Edmund Curll: The ‘first’ Hugh Hefner: Edmund Curll, the First Hugh Hefner. A Pyratical Pornographic Publisher.

On the shifts of marriage and privacy in the 17th and 18th centuries: Bless with one hand and curse with the other: How Marriage for Love became Good and Masturbation became Bad

Cheers!