The Man with Two Lives

Meet Timothy J. Gilfoyle, PhD. Associate Professor of History, Loyola University, Chicago. Dr. Gilfoyle teaches American urban and social history. He has been a John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellow, a Senior Fellow at the Museum of American History, Smithsonian Institution and a N.E.H./Lloyd Lewis Fellow at the Newberry Library in Chicago. He is currently completing a book on crime in the late nineteenth-century American city. Gilfoyle received both his B.A. and Ph.D. from Columbia University in 1979 and 1987, respectively.

But he has another life.

He is the author of City of Eros: New York City, Prostitution, and the Commercialization of Sex, 1790-1920 which was awarded the Allan Nevins Prize by the Society of American Historians.

He serves on the advisory board of the New York Museum of Sex, along Actress and Activist, Veronica Vera, creator and founder of Miss Vera's Finishing School for Boys Who Want to Be Girl in New York City and Annie Sprinkle, Performance Artist and author, and also with a maker of feminist erotic films and with a professor, who is presently cataloguing the world's largest collection of erotica.

Sometimes his two lives get mixed up, as the Professor is seen here teaching his child how to read using his book, City of Eros (the image is hosted on Loyola's website!)

Nice work if you can get it, from a Catholic University. And he surely should pay a visit to Bavaria. Quite his cup of tea in the cafeteria of modern Catholicism.

And the Vagina Monologues, the play which has much more to do with "Oh, look, we are just so radical" rather than violence against women continues its rounds of Catholic universities.