Medieval people feared that the Black Death was a punishment for sin, and hoped that abstaining from sex could save them.
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Moral Instruction, Venereal Disease, and Eugenic Manliness during World War I
Sexual health and the preservation of eugenically valuable British servicemen.
Reporting Abortions in Post-Conquest New Spain
A sixteenth-century scribe recorded the sexual and reproductive behaviour of indigenous women in colonial Mexico.
Three’s a Crowd?: Navigating a Love Triangle in Enlightenment France
How an Enlightenment philosopher understood the love between his mistress and her sister
“Clinical Demonstration by Two Expert Intellectuals”: Robert Latou Dickinson’s Representations of Sexual Intercourse
Dickinson’s representations of sexual encounters show the possibilities of gathering sex research data with live couples
Gay penguins, medieval heretics, and the place of animals in the history of sexuality
Medieval theologians, like modern activists, used animals to make arguments about human sexuality.
Beyond the Binary: Science, History, and the Radical Possibilities of Sex and Gender
Science has been a crucial resource for those seeking to radically rethink the possibilities of sex, gender, and sexuality.
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The Beauty and the Terror
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Teenagers: The Rise of Youth Culture in New Zealand
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Indian Sex Life: Sexuality and the Colonial Origins of Social Thought
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Coming Out of Communism: The Emergence of LGBT Activism in Eastern Europe
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Public City/Public Sex: Homosexuality, Prostitution, and Urban Culture Nineteenth-Century Paris
