Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Part One. The Hidden Pitfalls in the Early Documentary Record -- 1 (The Wrong Kind of ) Gonorrhea in Antiquity -- 2 "Poxt and Clapt Together": Sexual Misbehavior in Early Modern Cases of Venereal Disease -- Part Two. The Biomedical Sciences and the History of the STI Microorganisms -- 3 Bioarchaeological Contributions to Understanding the History of Treponemal Disease -- 4 A Long-Standing Evolutionary History between Chlamydia trachomatis and Humans: Visible Ocular and Invisible Genital Variants -- 5 Chlamydia: A Disease without a History -- Part Three. Population Decline in the Global South -- 6 Population Decline in Island Melanesia: Aphrodisian Cultural Practices, Sexually Transmitted Infections, and Low Fertility -- 7 Community Infertility in Papua New Guinea: Uncovering the Role of Gonorrhea -- 8 Fertility, STIs, and Sexual Behavior in Early and Mid-Twentieth- Century East Africa -- 9 "A Wise Provision of Nature for the Prevention of Too Many Children": Evidence from the Australian Colonies -- Part Four. Infertility and the Specter of Venereal Diseases in Modern Europe -- 10 "The Archenemy of Fertility": Gonorrhea and Infertility, Germany 1870-1935 -- 11 Fecundity in a World of Scourges: Venereal Diseases, Criminal Abortion, and Acquired Infertility in France, circa 1880-1950 -- 12 Revealing the Hidden Affliction: How Much Infertility Was Due to Venereal Disease in England and Wales on the Eve of the Great War? -- List of Contributors -- Index |