Trial by Sex

Throughout the 13th - 17th centuries, you could charge your husband or wife with impotence and to beat the charges, they would have to have sex in front of the court. It was a weird time. Help me on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/dylandubeau Twitter: https://twitter.com/dylandubeau Instagram: http://instagram.com/dylandubeau Website: http://www.dylandubeau.com/ What do you think? Let me know in the comments! ----------------------------------------­----------------------------- Learn more: Trials for adultery, or, The history of divorces - 1780 http://bit.ly/2aMN0u9 Road to divorce : England 1530-1987 by Stone, Lawrence. http://bit.ly/2aMNlNL Sexuality in Eighteenth-century Britain By Paul-Gabriel Boucé http://bit.ly/2aMMGM4 Trial by Impotence: Virility and Marriage in Pre-Revolutionary France - Pierre Darmon http://bit.ly/2aLmn5L Behind Closed Doors: Impotence Trials and the Trans-Historical Right to Marital Privacy - Stephanie B. Hoffman http://bit.ly/2aLm0rK The impotence trials of renaissance France - Ayzad http://bit.ly/2aLpbQ4 Standing up in court - Tony Perrottet http://bit.ly/2aLmdep The Hard-on On Trial - Laura Bannister http://bit.ly/2aLn530 The French Impotence Courts - Family Law Blog http://bit.ly/2aMNj8d Theatrum Mundi: Studies in Honor of Ronald W. Tobin - Claire L. Carlin, Ronald W. Tobin, Kathleen Wine http://bit.ly/2aMN3pS ----------------------------------------­----------------------------- Sponsors: Craig Kevorkian Sita Dubeau Jeremy Hershell Bits O' Weirdness Tom Jasper ----------------------------------------­----------------------------- Watch more: What the hell is Teen Court? https://youtu.be/rej7wiZ5Ej0 Could you have a Game of Thrones Trial by Combat? https://youtu.be/4y7mPbUZybs Putting Dead People and Inanimate Objects on Trial https://youtu.be/aCSj0ToXmeM Does Porn Influence Technology? https://youtu.be/UtfqWirZgOs ----------------------------------------­----------------------------- Come back for new videos most Wednesdays.