Expressing interest in both the history of food and the history of sexuality still has the power to raise eyebrows.
Recent Posts
Tempests and Teapots: Sexual Politics and Tea-Drinking in the Early Modern World
The American Revolution is impossible to understand without food and sex at its center.
Out in the Open: Rural Life, Respectability, and the Nudist Park
The American countryside provided an ideal setting for the principles of nudism.
Revisiting Love’s ‘Golden Age’
Love has a history, but that its history is not quite what we thought it was.
Digital Witnesses: The Parker-Hulme Murder Case and the Teaching of Crime and Sexual Deviance
The Parker-Hulme murder gripped the town of Christchurch, New Zealand in the summer of 1954.
Women’s Experiences in Fornication and Paternity Suits in Massachusetts, 1740-1800
Women’s confessions and paternity suits reveal a host of information about the sexual lives of early Americans.
Race, Class, and Sex Education in Early Twentieth-Century South Africa
The purpose of sex education for most of the century was conservative.