“Porno chic” culture of the 1970s provided an opportunity to embrace—or challenge—the sexual revolution.
20th and 21st Century United States
Remembrance of Things Past: A Novelist Reflects on the Politics of Intergenerational Sex
Sarah Schulman on changing attitudes towards intergenerational sex within the queer community.
Flight Attendant Unions Make the Economy Work for Queer Families
Flight attendant unions have been hotbeds of feminist and LGBTQ activism for fifty years.
Histories of Sexuality and the Carceral State-Part 3
Mass incarceration cannot be understood without looking through the lenses of gender and sexuality.
Postwar Sex Education and the Roots of White Male Sexual Entitlement
White men remain relatively impervious to charges of sexual aggression, perhaps as a result of mid-century sex education.
Archives of Desire: Debbie Does Death
Even in death a Republican-appointed judge wanted to be remembered for his stance against pornography.
The FBI, Sexual Predators and the Mann Act
The Mann Act protected women from “human vultures who fatten on the shame of innocent young girls.”
