Doctors in Britain removed the clitoris on women explicitly to eradicate elements of female libido.
Tag: British history
Before Grindr, or, The Dangers of the "Gay Bachelor"
When the UK government proposed the criminalization of queer personal ads.
Historians are gossips who tease the dead
I was a gossip, teasing the dead.
Cunnilingus in the Middle Ages and the Problem of Understanding Past Sex Lives
We have to work creatively with our sources to understand what medieval people were doing with one another.
Gender, Sex and Sexuality in 20th-Century British History: Some new directions
The symposium demonstrated the continued vitality of research into gender, sex and sexuality in modern British history
‘In the manner of a woman’: John/Eleanor Rykener and the Inessentiality of Gender
John/ Eleanor Rykener’s confession reveals the complexity of queer lives in medieval England.
India’s Section 377: India, Britain and the ongoing legacies of imperialism
The legacy of imperial Victorian sexual mores continue to haunt the lives of gay people in India and large parts of former British colonies.