A weekly check-up of gender, medicine, and history in the news.

• How to mold a perfect wife circa 18th century (Hint: it doesn’t end well).
• The first man held in the Boston stocks was the guy who built them.
• 18 Mad Men anachronisms.
• Wanna get a divorce? You may have to wait two years.
• Famous sex toys go up for auction.
• Long-lost video of James Earl Ray found.
• College cracks down on condoms.
• Anti-rape underwear?
• How to party like the Ancient Greeks.
• The fatal consequences of masturbation (with pictures!).
• Do birth control pills make women prefer feminine men?
• Prefab housing in post-WWII America.
• Was Shakespeare a hoarder?
• Wounded Knee is for sale.