Lust on Trial: Censorship and the Rise of American Obscenity in the Age of Anthony Comstock

By Amy Werbel 20th and 21st Century United States, NOTCHES on the Bookshelf

Lust on Trial chronicles intensive efforts to purify American sexuality (1873-1915), and their epic failure.

Sexual Revolution: Event or Process?

By Christopher Mitchell 20th and 21st Century United States

The most important dimension of the sexual revolution of the ’60s and ’70s was the increased freedom of sexual speech.

“Party Games” and “Pulling Train”: Understanding the Brett Kavanaugh Gang Rape Allegation

By Desiree Abu-Odeh 20th and 21st Century United States, Sexual Violence

The history of responses to campus gang rape can help us understand recent allegations against U.S. Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh.

Searching for Sex Crimes in Rural Nebraska

By Brian Trump 20th and 21st Century United States, Sexual Violence

Trips to courthouses across Nebraska raised important questions about how to conduct research on sexual violence in rural spaces.

The Art and Politics of the Dick Pic

By GVGK Tang 20th and 21st Century United States, Medicine and the Body, Public History

What do safer sex campaigns and their histories tell us about how erotic masculinities are crafted amid crisis?

Porno Chic and the Sex Wars: A Roundtable on the Politics of Sexual Representations in the 1970s – Part 3

By notcheseditor 20th and 21st Century United States

1970s pornography included far more than Deep Throat (1972).

Queering the Redneck Riviera

By Jerry Watkins 20th and 21st Century United States, LGBTQ, NOTCHES on the Bookshelf

This book explores relationships between sexuality, postwar capitalism, and conservative morality in the last half of the 20th century.