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Modern wire-and-bead abacus first recorded in use in Japan (1600)
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Galileo Galilei tried by the Inquisition and forced to recant the heliocentric world view. (1632)
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Dutch scientist Anton van Leeuwenhoek develops the compound microscope. (1674)
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1674 |
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Casanova born. (2 April 1725)
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Pierre Fauchard pens The Surgical Dentist. (1728)
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1728 |
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French explorer and mathematician La Condamine brings back caoutchouc (raw rubber) from Amazon trip. (1736)
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1736 |
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Jacques de Vaucanson builds automaton duck (Spring 1739)
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1740 |
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Marquis de Sade born. (2 June 1740)
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1758 |
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S. A. Tissot publishes On Onanism, or a Physical Dissertation on the Ills Produced by Masturbation. (1758)
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James Watt patents his first improved steam engine. (1762)
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1762 |
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Storming of the Bastille (14 July 1789)
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1834 |
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Sylvester Graham writes Lecture to Young Men on Chastity. (1834)
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1836 |
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Leopold von Sacher-Masoch born. (27 January 1836)
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The Daugerrotype is the first commercially available photographic reproduction. (1839)
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1839 |
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1844 |
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Anthony Comstock, moral entrepreneur, born. (7 March 1844)
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Samuel Morse sends his message 'What hath God wrought' via telegraph. (24 May 1844)
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1844 |
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Goodyear patents vulcanization of rubber. (24 June 1844)
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1848 |
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John Humphrey Noyes founds the Oneida Community in New York. (1848)
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Kingdom of Denmark reorganized as a constitutional monarchy. (1849)
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1849 |
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Charles Darwin publishes On the Origins of Species. (1859)
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1859 |
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The Pony Express begins mail service between St. Joseph, MO and San Francisco, CA. (April 1860)
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1860 |
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Jules Verne publishes Journey to the Center of the Earth (1863)
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1863 |
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First issue of Harper's Bazaar (1867)
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1867 |
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Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi born. (2 October 1869)
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1869 |
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A.M. Ward sends his first mail order catalog. (1873)
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1873 |
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US Congress passes Comstock Act, prohibiting mailing of immoral, obscene, and indecent materials. (1873)
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Alexander Graham Bell and Thomas Watson exhibit an electric telephone. (1876)
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1876 |
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Albert Einstein, German expatriat physicist, (and noted lover) is born. (1879)
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1879 |
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German physician Albert Neisser discovers bacterium that causes gonorrhea. (1879)
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1880 |
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Marie Stopes, world famous pioneer for family planning, is born. (15 October 1880)
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Josef Breuer, Viennese physician, uses hypnosis to treat hysteria. (1882)
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1882 |
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1885 |
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Sir Richard Francis Burton publishes The Arabian Nights. (1885)
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Granville Stanley Hall founds the American Journal of Psychology. (1885)
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1886 |
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Krafft-Ebing publishes Psychopathia Sexualis. (1886)
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H.W. Goodwin invents celluloid film. (1887)
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1887 |
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First issue of Vogue Magazine (1892)
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1892 |
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Christopher Lathan Sholes patents the QWERTY typewriter. (1898)
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1898 |
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Booker T. Washington publishes 'Up from Slavery.' (1901)
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1901 |
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Henry Havelock Ellis publishes first volumes of his work Studies in the Psychology of Sex (1901)
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Guglielmo Marconi transmits radio signals from Cornwall to Newfoundland. (1901)
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1901 |
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1903 |
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Viennese author Otto Weininger pens Sex and Character (1903)
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1905 |
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Sigmund Freud pens Three Essays on the Theory of Sexuality (1905)
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1908 |
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Iwan Bloch publishes Sexual Life of Our Time, coins the term 'Sexology.' (1908)
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Danish physicist Niels Bohr publishes his model of atomic structure (1913)
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1915 |
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A Free Ride, considered the first stag film. (1915)
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1919 |
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Magnus Hirschfeld founds the Institute for Sexology (1919)
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Sideshows, medicine shows, snake oil shows travel America. (1920s)
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1920 |
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First issue of TIME Magazine (3 March 1923)
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1923 |
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John Baird transmits the first television signal. (1925)
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1925 |
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The state of Tennessee forbids sex education in public schools. (1925)
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Margaret Mead publishes 'Coming of Age in Samoa,' an anthropological study of teens in other cultures. (1928)
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1928 |
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USA stock market crash, starting on Black Friday, leads to the great depression. (29 October 1929)
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1929 |
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1930 |
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Tijuana Bibles begin circulating in the US. (1930s)
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Ernst Ruska builds the first electron microscope. (1932)
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1932 |
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Carl Gustav Jung pens Modern man in Search of a Soul (1933)
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1933 |
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First issue of Newsweek (17 February 1933)
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1933 |
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Hitler takes power in Germany after the burning of the Reichstag. (3 May 1933)
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1933 |
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1933 |
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A few days after Hitler is elected, Nazis burn Magnus Hirschfeld's Institute for Sexology, including its books and archives, in (10 May 1933)
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1933 |
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Hugo Gernsback begins publishing Sexology magazine. (Summer 1933)
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1936 |
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Young's Rubber Company starts selling Trojans condoms. (1936)
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1936 |
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US 2nd Circuit Court of Appeals nullifies remainder of Comstock act. (1936)
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1937 |
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The American Medical Association recognizes birth control as a legitimate part of a doctor's practice (1937)
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1938 |
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Irving Klaw opens his secondhand bookshop, later to become Movie Star News (1938)
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Tampax begins distribution of menstrual tampons in the United States. (1938)
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1938 |
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Japanese bomb Pearl Harbor, bringing the US into World War II. (7 December 1941)
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1947 |
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Violet McNeal publishes FOUR WHITE HORSES AND A BRASS BAND, her personal medicine show tale. (1947)
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1948 |
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Stanley Penska on Yonkers, NY, patents the "reservoir tip" condom. (1948)
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1948 |
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Alfred C. Kinsey publishes Sexual Behavior in the Human Male. (1948)
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Julius and Ethel Rosenberg sentenced to death for espionage against the US. (1951)
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1951 |
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Beate Uhse opens her first Sexual Supermarket in West Germany. (1951)
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Norman Vincent Peale publishes The Power of Positive Thinking. (1952)
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1952 |
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George becomes Christine Jorgensen. (1952)
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1952 |
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Computer pioneer Alan Turing prosecuted for homosexuality, sentenced to 12 months of hormone therapy. (March 1952)
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Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay scale mount Everest. (1953)
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1953 |
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Alfred Kinsey publishes Sexual Behavior in the Human Female. (1953)
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1953 |
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Hugh Hefner publishes Playboy no. 1. (December 1953)
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First issue of Sports Illustrated (16 August 1954)
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1954 |
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1956 |
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Wilhelm Reich's publications burned by the U.S. FDA (August 1956)
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Supreme Court rules in 'Roth vs. US' that pornography must be utterly without redeeming social importance. (1957)
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1957 |
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SSSS: Society for the Scientific Study of Sexuality founded (1957)
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1957 |
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Searle releases Enovid birth control pill. (1957)
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Hawaii becomes 50th state of the U.S. (1958)
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1958 |
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U.S. Postmaster General Summerfield bans D.H. Lawrence's "Lady Chatterley's Lover" from the mails on grounds of obscenity. (1958)
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Jane Goodall observes chimpanzees in the wild using tools. (1960)
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1960 |
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Ira Reiss publishes Premarital Sexual Standards in America. (1960)
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Instant color film introduced by the Polaroid Land Company. (1963)
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1963 |
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Betty Friedan pens The Feminine Mystique. (1963)
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John F. Kennedy assassinated. (22 November 1963)
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1963 |
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The Beatles first appearance on The Ed Sullivan Show (9 February 1964)
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1964 |
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1965 |
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COLOR CLIMAX in Copenhagen starts producing and distributing explicit books and films. (1965)
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1965 |
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PRIVATE in Sweden starts producing and distributing explicit books and films. (1965)
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NOW, the National Organization for Women, founded. (1966)
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1966 |
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Researchers Masters and Johnson publish Human Sexual Response (1966)
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US Supreme court rules against pandering in 'Ginzburg v. US'. (1966)
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1966 |
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Ted Marche starts manufacturing and selling rubber dildos and other prosthetic sex devices. (1966)
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1966 |
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Adam Film Quarterly premier issue (1966)
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1967 |
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AASECT, the American Association of Sex Educators, Counselors, and Therapists is founded (1967)
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1968 |
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Gershon Legman publishes Rationale of the Dirty Joke: An Analysis of Sexual Humor (1968)
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1968 |
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Al Goldstein and Jim Buckley start SCREW magazine in New York (November 1968)
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1969 |
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Alan Ginsburg gets naked in Golden Gate Park (August 1969)
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1969 |
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Police raid Stonewall Inn, a gay bar, setting off days of rioting. (1969)
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Summer of Love culminates with Woodstock festival of love and music. (1969)
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1969 |
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Intel releases the 4004 chip. (1971)
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1971 |
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Technical Report of the Commission on Obscenity and Pornography published. (1971)
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1971 |
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The Eulenspiegel Society, the first BDSM group, is founded in New York. (1971)
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Atari releases home video game PONG. (1972)
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1972 |
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Gerard Damiano releases film DEEP THROAT (1972)
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1972 |
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Gail Parent publishes Sheila Levine is Dead and Living in New York (1972)
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1972 |
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OUI, from Playboy pubilshing, premier issue. (1972)
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1973 |
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Supreme Court ruling says that individual states may not stop abortions during the first six monts of pregnancy. (1973)
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1973 |
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The American Psychiatric Association removes homosexuality from the DSM. (1973)
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1974 |
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Cynthia Slater and Larry Olsen found the Society of Janus, a BDSM organization. (1974)
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President Richard Nixon resigns from office. (9 August 1974)
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1974 |
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Sony introduces the Betamax video format, doomed to failure. (1975)
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1975 |
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Ivan Stormgart comes to the United States. (1975)
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JVC introduces VHS format for video tape. (1976)
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1976 |
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Reuben Sturman's company buys Doc Johnson, maker of erotic contrivances. (1976)
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The Bakken Library and Museum of Electricity in Life moves to its present home. (1976)
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1976 |
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You premier issue (1976)
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1976 |
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Unique premier issue (March 1976)
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1976 |
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New Dawn premier issue (May 1976)
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1976 |
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High Society premier issue (May 1976)
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1976 |
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Fun! premier issue (1976)
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1976 |
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Cheri premier issue (1976)
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1976 |
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National Screw premier issue. (1976)
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Paul Allen and Bill Gates found Microsoft. (1977)
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1977 |
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Joani Blank founds Good Vibrations in San Francisco, CA. (1977)
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Apple Computer releases the Apple II personal computer. (1977)
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1977 |
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At Home: The Magazine of Sexual Fulfillment, premier issue (1977)
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1977 |
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New Pink premier issue, (1977)
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1977 |
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Eve premier issue (1977)
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1977 |
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Touch of Velvet premier issue (September 1977)
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1977 |
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Jock premier issue (1977)
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Mt. St. Helens erupts. (1980)
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1980 |
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1980 |
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Playbirds premier issue (May 1980)
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US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention first recognizes AIDS. (1981)
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1981 |
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Patrick J. Kearney publishes The Private Case, a study of the erotic collection at the British Library. (1981)
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1983 |
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Platinum premiere issue. (1983)
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1986 |
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Attorney General's Commission on Pornography (1986)
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1987 |
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Tail Ends premier issue (1987)
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1988 |
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T&A premier issue (February 1988)
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bOING bOING issue #2 (1990)
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1990 |
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1991 |
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Thigh High premier issue (Spring 1991)
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1997 |
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Tight premiere issue (June 1997)
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1997 |
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Carnal Knowledge premier issue (September/October 1997)
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1998 |
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FDA approves Viagra. (1998)
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George W. Bush elected to the first of his two terms as US President. (November 2000)
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2000 |
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Terrorists hijack 2 planes and fly into the twin towers of the World Trade Center in New York City (11 September 2001)
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2001 |
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2001 |
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Alta-Glamour.com launches Web site (September 2001)
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2002 |
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Earl Kemp, longtime porn pulp editor, begins publishing e*I* Fanzine (January 2002)
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2003 |
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Sheryl Straight starts The Erotica Bibliophile. (2003)
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2004 |
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Kinsey, the Movie, opens in Los Angeles and New York. (12 November 2004)
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2005 |
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Editors William J. Taverner and Elizabeth Schroeder begin American Journal of Sexuality Education. (2005)
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Barack Hussein Obama elected president of the United States (2008)
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2008 |
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Housing and credit markets collapse, leading to 'these difficult economic times.' (August 2008)
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2008 |
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A massive, 7.0 earthquake rocks Haiti, creating a huge humanitarian crisis. (January 12, 2010)
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2010 |
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BP Deepwater Horizon oil rig explodes, killing 11 and causing the worst spill in American waters. (20 April 2010)
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2010 |
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2010 |
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Federal Prosecutors drop obscenity case against John Stagliano (Buttman) and Evil Angel Productions. (July 2010)
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