Two More Weeks: The Brutality Behind Brazil’s Reproductive Politics

By Isabela De Oliveira Dornelas Childhood and Youth, Medicine and the Body

Cesarean or sin: the politics of saving the fetus in Brazil.

The Transformation of American Sex Education: Mary Calderone and the Fight for Sexual Health

By Ellen S. More 20th and 21st Century United States, Childhood and Youth, NOTCHES on the Bookshelf

How sex education was turned into a flashpoint of the culture wars, a stalking horse for the newly emergent extreme right wing from the late 1960s to the present.

How to Write the History of Pederasty in the Age of Groomers

By Rachel Hope Cleves Childhood and Youth

Rachel Hope Cleves closes out the symposium on her book Unspeakable: A Life Beyond Sexual Morality.

Age Difference and Queer Feminism: Bryher, H.D. and Norman Douglas

By Jana Funke Childhood and Youth

Jana Funke shows us how Rachel Hope Cleves’ Unspeakable: A Life Beyond Sexual Morality offers a framework for understanding the erotics of age in queer and trans relationships.

Unspeakable Practices Under the Capri Sun  

By Alessio Ponzio Childhood and Youth

Alessio Ponzio guides us through transformations in Italian sexual culture in this second post in our online symposium on Rachel Hope Cleves’s Unspeakable: A Life Beyond Sexual Morality.

Of Polymaths and Pederasts: Reflections on Rachel Hope Cleves’s Unspeakable

By Joseph Fischel Childhood and Youth

Joseph Fischel reflects on histories of sexual ethics, pederasty, and power in this first post in our online symposium on Rachel Hope Cleves’s Unspeakable: A Life Beyond Sexual Morality.

The Corrupter of Boys: Sodomy, Scandal and the Medieval Clergy

By Dyan Elliott Childhood and Youth, Medieval, NOTCHES on the Bookshelf, Religion and Sexuality, Sexual Violence

Scandal-averse policies have enabled the widespread sexual abuse of boys and male adolescents within the Church.