On July 26, 1942, a solider in the U.S. military found out that he had recently contracted a venereal disease.
Tag: venereal disease
Sores, Scorn and Stigma? Suffering Syphilis in Early Modern Germany
The ‘French disease’ erupted in Europe in 1495.
“The Unreasonable Indulgence of That Appetite”: Cancer as a Venereal Disease in the Nineteenth Century
Cancer was a venereal disease to be considered alongside syphilis and gonorrhoea.
Moral Panic and Syphilis in Jamaica
Venereal diseases became a means through which colonial elites and moral reformers condemned, surveilled, and made medical interventions against the Jamaican masses.
“She was both Poxt and Clapt together”: Confessions of Sexual Secrets in Eighteenth-Century Venereal Cases
Sexual secrets were nothing new in the 1700s, but confessing them to a doctor became surprisingly common.
CFP: The History of Venereal Disease
What role have venereal diseases played in the history of sexuality?
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