How was prostitution presented in the Wolfenden Report?
Author: Julia Laite
‘An Equality of Injustice’: The Sex Buyers’ Bill and Lessons from History
Sex workers living under these regimes have to keep selling sex in a climate made significantly more hostile by further criminalization.
Drunk Canadians in London, November 1916
The sexual history of war lies at the very heart of the history of war itself.
Historians are gossips who tease the dead
I was a gossip, teasing the dead.
Jack the Ripper: Case Never Closed
Why does Jack the Ripper generate so much popular interest?
(Sexual) Labour Day
Researching prostitution makes Julia Laite more of a labour historian than a historian of sexuality.
Beards, Real Men, and Poseurs: male sexuality and fashion since around 1900
Male fashion has long been central to the way we define what it means to be a ‘real’ man.
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