The Solitary Virtue
Old books had a lot to say about masturbation, and most of it was terrible. I find the worst of it and post it here.
There will never be porn on this account.
#historyofsex
@rockula.bsky.social
Sarcastic old Lefty punk rocker. I oppose bigotry. I don't follow sport. No religion. NO DMs EVER. Music/films/books/comics. Cat Dad. Fox whisperer. Favourite band: The Damned. Old Hag @xaraptor.bsky.social is my better half.
@leannecalvert.bsky.social
Historian of the Family working on Sexualities, Religion, & Gender in Ireland & the Atlantic World. Like dogs? Meet Frank 🐶 Belfast 🔁 Tipperary
@janalena.bsky.social
Michigander in Amsterdam, early modern historian, avid reader of mystery and horror, hobby cook, nascent weaver, yoga teacher, podcast host with the New Books Network, Detroit sports fan, Basset Hound lover, slowly but surely becoming a tough old bird.
@alexandreklein.bsky.social
Philosophe et historien de la santé Responsable de : http://histoiresante.blogspot.com/ https://uottawa.academia.edu/AlexandreKlein
@heroedesillon.bsky.social
Sexologist. Mostly interested in the history of sexology. https://heroedesillon.wordpress.com/
@sarahebull.bsky.social
English professor, book historian. 19th C, mainly. Interested in history of medicine, sexuality, and print culture, text reuse, IP, letterpress, DH/computational approaches Book: Selling Sexual Knowledge coming soon: https://tinyurl.com/5army9dc
@drclaireocall.bsky.social
Writer. Literary & cultural historian. Expert: Brontës, esp.Emily + Sarah Waters. 📖EMILY BRONTË REAPPRAISED 👩🏼💻Editor @brontestudies ✨🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️ https://linktr.ee/drclaireocall
@emilybrand.bsky.social
Historian of the long 18thC, editor, genealogist. 📚 Book: The Fall of the House of Byron 📝 Writing about: Marie Antoinette’s ladies
@javariafarooqui.bsky.social
Research areas: popular romance, book history, postcolonialism, media/cinema, gender, and fandom. Shameless posting of published research across all socials.
@pamplemoussepam.bsky.social
Sen Lecturer, Eng Lit, Bristol Uni. I research alcohol in 19th C. Co-dir. Drinking Studies Network; Co-I on NCN-funded women & alcohol project (http://www.womenandalcohol.net) https://shop.bl.uk/products/dead-drunk-tales-of-intoxication-and-demon-drinks
@smartbitches.bsky.social
I'm Sarah from Smart Bitches, and I like Trashy Books | Daily SBTB email: http://bit.ly/SBTB-feed | Reviews, Cover Snark, & Recs: http://sb-tb.com |
@hallierubenhold.bsky.social
Author of The Five, historian and a bit of TV. Story of A Murder: The Wives, The Mistress and Dr Crippen’s Crime of the Century on bookshelves March 2025. https://linktr.ee/hallierubenhold
@vulgarhistory.bsky.social
Feminist women’s history comedy podcast hosted by Ann Foster
@joanpassey.bsky.social
BBC/AHRC New Generation Thinker | English Lecturer | UCU Rep | Haunted Shores Network | Victorian environments, coasts & seascapes 🌊 | Queer ecologies 🍄 | Gothic 👻 | she/they 🏳️🌈 linktr.ee/JoanPassey
@lauravivanco.bsky.social
Independent scholar of popular romance fiction (https://www.vivanco.me.uk/), member of the Editorial Board of the Journal of Popular Romance Studies (https://www.jprstudies.org/) My database of scholarship about romance novels: https://rsdb.vivanco.me.uk
@joanneknowlesuk.bsky.social
Senior Lecturer in Media, Culture, Communication @LJMU. Research interests in culture, media & literary studies #C19 to now. My views, RT ≠ endorsement.
@tanyaserisier.bsky.social
Feminist academic working on sexual politics. Current project on public survivors. Member and activist Birkbeck UCU. Also cross stitches.
@jennifervevans.bsky.social
historian | digital curator | Humboldtian | professor | currently writing Full Frontal: A New History of the Sexual Revolution for Stanford Univ Press/Redwood Press latest book: Queer Art of History: Queer Kinship After Fascism (Duke UP, 2023)
@erinacean.bsky.social
Archivist, historian, reader, Londoner, feminist @erinacean @erinacean@h-net.social www.lesleyahall.net https://lesleyahall.blogspot.com/
@helloginnybatty.bsky.social
Archivist with a love for #histmed, surgical, sexual health, and #histsex collections; if it's in a jar I'll probably love it. She/her. Aprendiendo español.
@emselinger.bsky.social
Poetry maven turned popular romance scholar. Founding Editor of the Journal of Popular Romance Studies. Off-hours singer and lyricist for the JRC Alte Rockers.
@victorianmasc.bsky.social
James Murray Beattie Lecturer in Victorian Lit | University of Glasgow | Co-founder @EHUNineteen.bsky.social Research Centre | #Classics | #Gothic lit | Author: Ancient Rome & Victorian Masculinity (OUP, 2019). FRHistS. She/her. #c19th
@drdeclankavanagh.bsky.social
Senior Lecturer in 18th-century Studies (Queer & Disability Studies). Author of *Effeminate Years* (2017); co-editor of *The Edinburgh Companion to Queer Reading* (2025). Views my own, not employer’s.
@c19thceleb.bsky.social
Associate Professor in Victorian Literature. Research interests: hunger & masculinity | food & consumption | history of celebrity. Co-I on ‘Young Women & Body Image’. Dog person. 🏴 https://researchportal.port.ac.uk/en/persons/charlotte-boyce
@shelflove.bsky.social
A podcast & Substack about romance novels, and how they reflect, explore, challenge, and shape desire. Host: Andrea Martucci (she/her) #romancebks #romancereader https://linktr.ee/shelflovepodcast
@jofvictculture.bsky.social
The Journal of Victorian Culture publishes #VictorianStudies articles. We also run JVC Online. We welcome articles & posts on any nineteenth-century topic. Our linked articles: https://linktr.ee/elly.mccausland
@peteorford.bsky.social
English Lecturer and Course Director of the MA in Charles Dickens Studies. 'The Life of the Author: Charles Dickens' available to buy at https://www.waterstones.com/book/the-life-of-the-author-charles-dickens/pete-orford/9781119697459
@kirstensaxton.bsky.social
18/19th lit, pop culture & out of order history, queer studies, crime fiction, hometown Oakland she/her/they
@vanessabraganza.bsky.social
'The real Robert Langdon' | writer and future civil rights lawyer | 📖 THE SECRET-SEEKERS: A BOOK DETECTIVE'S QUEST out from HarperOne 2026 | PhD @harvard, JD @columbialaw
@drlindseyfitz.bsky.social
NYT Bestselling Author. Medical Historian. Breast Cancer Survivor. Next book: SLEUTH-HOUND, a whirlwind tour of Victorian forensics from the perspective of the man who loaned a voice & razor-sharp logic to Baker St.’s famous resident: Sherlock Holmes.
@jilly52.bsky.social
Married Boomer, Cat & nature lover ( bit witchy) Chelsea FC fan,Retired NHS , Pro EU, anti Rightwing politicos,
@bodicetipplers.bsky.social
A podcast where we read all the books we used to steal off our grandmothers’ nightstands! Wherever you get your podcasts or bodicetipplers.com. She/her.
@unamcilvenna.bsky.social
Senior Lecturer at ANU who writes about – and sometimes sings – ballads about executions, disasters, military conflicts & politics from the 16th to the 19th century. Personal website: unamcilvenna.com
@hdhudson.bsky.social
C18 & C19 Brit lit prof, Romanticist, periodicalist, historian of books & publishing, #MinervaPress scholar, Austenite. 250 yrs of genre fiction. M.C. Lang Fellow at RBS. Book: http://tinyurl.com/k4fb35ur (she/her).
@amandaallenphd.bsky.social
English Prof. I research 1940s-1960s teen romance & print culture, the female network of editors & librarians who published midcentury #KidLit & #YALit, and fan & fandom studies. YA editor of JPRS. LOVES BOOKBINDING! She/her.
@lpfarnell.bsky.social
@annadzabagina.bsky.social
PhD, assistant prof. at the University of Warsaw, Visiting Fulbright Fellow at Columbia University || women's writing/ lesbian & queer studies/Slavic lit - currently writing a book on Sapphic Modernism in Polish, Russian, and Ukrainian literature 🌈
@wendylrouse.bsky.social
Professor, Historian, Author of Queer History of the Suffrage Movement & Her Own Hero: Origins of Women's Self-Defense, History Teacher Prep, #LGBTQHistory 🏳️🌈🗃️ WendyLRouse.com
@adriamaral.bsky.social
Professor and Researcher on pop culture, digital media, and fan studies at UFF. Series Editor at PCWP Routledge. Aoir 2025 Chair. Childless Cat Lady. Spooky Nerd. Goth. https://adriamaral.substack.com/ ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9159-2352
@noisybits.bsky.social
Prof. of Gender Studies (Sex Media & Sex Cultures) at @liu.se 🇸🇪. Hon. prof. at @exeter.ac.uk 🇬🇧. 👬: @benwritesthings.bsky.social. More: linktr.ee/Jpmflorencio 🚨Crossings: Creative Ecologies of Cruising (Rutgers UP, Apr 2025), with Liz Rosenfeld🚨
@carorusterholz.bsky.social
Ass. Prof. Graduate Institute, Geneva Prof Social History, Fribourg University History of sexual and reproductive health, reproductive politics She/her. Breast cancer survivor
@zvancauwenberg.bsky.social
romanticist&historian | PhD candidate at KU Leuven & Ghent University (Belgium) | Scottish&Irish women's writing & the writing of history
@pamelakgilbert.bsky.social
Nineteenth century British Literature, history of the body and medicine.
@hannahva390.bsky.social
PhD @ University of Warwick I IAS Early Career Fellow I queer & trans* re/presentation in museums 🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈🏛📸 “Mistress of queer history” I She/her I Co-host @theoryishpodcast.bsky.social
@katherineangel.bsky.social
I write, I teach, I practice psychoanalysis. POOR FREUD is my next book (Verso/Norton). TOMORROW SEX WILL BE GOOD AGAIN / DADDY ISSUES / UNMASTERED are my previous books.
@anneoreilly.bsky.social
Librarian, Professor, Romance Reader, and Romance Researcher. She/Her.
@jessicatripler.bsky.social
Avid reader of romance, classics, lit fic, memoir. Philosophy prof who works on phil and lit, pop culture, med humanities. Mainer.
@dramamen.bsky.social
Historian of Modern Britain from 18th-21stc; Expert on masculinity; sexual violence; British Period Drama; TV/Media Studies; Public Historian; Royal Family expert; environmental activist; visit me at julieannetaddeo.com for more. Views all my own.