White men remain relatively impervious to charges of sexual aggression, perhaps as a result of mid-century sex education.
Tag: 20th Century US History
Archives of Desire: Debbie Does Death
Even in death a Republican-appointed judge wanted to be remembered for his stance against pornography.
The FBI, Sexual Predators and the Mann Act
The Mann Act protected women from “human vultures who fatten on the shame of innocent young girls.”
Bad Girls: A Student Interview with Amanda Littauer
Bad Girls details how young women and girls in the 1940s and 1950s pursued new sexual freedoms.
Syphilis Onstage: Eugène Brieux’s Damaged Goods
Brieux’s plot featured a main character wrestling with the physical and social ramifications of syphilis.
Reforming Sodom: Protestants and the Rise of Gay Rights
Interview by David K. Johnson Historians who study sexuality in the 20th century United States have largely worked from the premise that secular forces shaped the formation of sexual identities, communities and regulation. Religion, in this paradigm, is framed as a residual and conservative force—the province of the fanatical and the ignorant. […]
Archives of Desire: Analog Sexting
My grandparents helped pave the way for virtual trysts.
