Queer China reveals a vibrant picture of queer communities and cultures since their inception in post-Mao China.
Author Interviews
The Brothel of Pompeii
Pompeii’s brothel is the only verifiable brothel from Greco-Roman antiquity.
The Beauty and the Terror
The Italian Renaissance was far stranger and darker than many of us realise, and that sex and sexuality played an important role in this unsavoury side of the sixteenth century.
Teenagers: The Rise of Youth Culture in New Zealand
New Zealand’s teenagers embraced romantic and sexual possibilities, and their lives tell of wider social attitudes to morality and respectability
Indian Sex Life: Sexuality and the Colonial Origins of Social Thought
How ideas of deviant female sexuality became foundational to modern social thought in colonial India.
Coming Out of Communism: The Emergence of LGBT Activism in Eastern Europe
Conor O’Dwyer describes the rapidly evolving politics of LGBT activism in postcommunist Europe.
Public City/Public Sex: Homosexuality, Prostitution, and Urban Culture Nineteenth-Century Paris
Women who sold sex and men who sought sex with other men shaped the emergence of modern Paris.