The Brothel of Pompeii

By Sarah Levin-Richardson Ancient World, NOTCHES on the Bookshelf

Pompeii’s brothel is the only verifiable brothel from Greco-Roman antiquity.

The Beauty and the Terror

By Catherine Fletcher Early Modern, NOTCHES on the Bookshelf

The Italian Renaissance was far stranger and darker than many of us realise, and that sex and sexuality played an important role in this unsavoury side of the sixteenth century.

Teenagers: The Rise of Youth Culture in New Zealand

By Chris Brickell Antipodean sexualities, NOTCHES on the Bookshelf

New Zealand’s teenagers embraced romantic and sexual possibilities, and their lives tell of wider social attitudes to morality and respectability

Indian Sex Life: Sexuality and the Colonial Origins of Social Thought

By Durba Mitra Asian Sexualities, Empire and Colonialism, NOTCHES on the Bookshelf, Sexual Labour

How ideas of deviant female sexuality became foundational to modern social thought in colonial India.

Coming Out of Communism: The Emergence of LGBT Activism in Eastern Europe

By Conor O'Dwyer LGBTQ, Modern Europe, NOTCHES on the Bookshelf

Conor O’Dwyer describes the rapidly evolving politics of LGBT activism in postcommunist Europe.

Public City/Public Sex: Homosexuality, Prostitution, and Urban Culture Nineteenth-Century Paris

By Andrew Ross LGBTQ, Modern Europe, NOTCHES on the Bookshelf, Sexual Labour

Women who sold sex and men who sought sex with other men shaped the emergence of modern Paris.

The Gay Marriage Generation: How the LGBTQ Movement Transformed American Culture

By Peter Hart-Brinson 20th and 21st Century United States, LGBTQ, NOTCHES on the Bookshelf

Generational change in the imagination of sexuality caused an unprecedented shift in public opinion about same-sex marriage in the U.S.