Contents

pp v-vi

Acknowledgments

pp vii-viii

Introduction

pp 1-40

Part One - The Hidden Pitfalls in the Early Documentary Record

pp 41-42

1 - (The Wrong Kind of) Gonorrhea in Antiquity

pp 43-67

2 - “Poxt and Clapt Together”: Sexual Misbehavior in Early Modern Cases of Venereal Disease

pp 68-90

Part Two - The Biomedical Sciences and the History of the STI Microorganisms

pp 91-92

3 - Bioarchaeological Contributions to Understanding the History of Treponemal Disease

pp 93-123

4 - A Long-Standing Evolutionary History between Chlamydia trachomatis and Humans: Visible Ocular and Invisible Genital Variants

pp 124-152

5 - Chlamydia: A Disease without a History

pp 153-184

Part Three - Population Decline in the Global South

pp 185-186

6 - Population Decline in Island Melanesia: Aphrodisian Cultural Practices, Sexually Transmitted Infections, and Low Fertility

pp 187-218

7 - Community Infertility in Papua New Guinea: Uncovering the Role of Gonorrhea

pp 219-248

8 - Fertility, STIs, and Sexual Behavior in Early and Mid-Twentieth-Century East Africa

pp 249-278

9 - “A Wise Provision of Nature for the Prevention of Too Many Children”: Evidence from the Australian Colonies

pp 279-302

Part Four - Infertility and the Specter of Venereal Diseases in Modern Europe

pp 303-304

10 - “The Archenemy of Fertility”: Gonorrhea and Infertility, Germany 1870–1935

pp 305-340

11 - Fecundity in a World of Scourges: Venereal Diseases, Criminal Abortion, and Acquired Infertility in France, circa 1880–1950

pp 341-372

12 - Revealing the Hidden Affliction: How Much Infertility Was Due to Venereal Disease in England and Wales on the Eve of the Great War?

pp 373-419

List of Contributors

pp 420-421

Index

pp 422-442