American Child Brides and the Dangers of Underage Sex

By Nicholas Syrett Childhood and Youth

Revisiting an earlier generation of reformers exposes that marriage was not a magical cure-all.

Bad Girls: A Student Interview with Amanda Littauer

By Amanda Littauer 20th and 21st Century United States, Author Interviews, Childhood and Youth, LGBTQ

How young women and girls in the 1940s and 1950s pursued new sexual freedoms.

Sexual Violence Against Children in the 1960s

By Nick Basannavar Childhood and Youth, Sexual Violence, United Kingdom

Narratives of abuse have taken on different forms during different moments.

Wolfenden, Paederasty and Paedophilia

By Brian Lewis Childhood and Youth, LGBTQ, United Kingdom

What do the Wolfenden Papers have to say about paederasty and paedophilia?

Stalling Civil Rights: Conservative Sexual Thought has been in the Toilet Since the 1940s

By Gillian Frank 20th and 21st Century United States, Childhood and Youth, Trans

The conservative idea that civil rights protections sexually endanger women and children in public bathrooms is not new.

Dr. Spock and the History of Sexuality

By Janet Golden 20th and 21st Century United States, Childhood and Youth

Serendipitously, on June 26, 2015, I found several letters to Spock regarding homosexuality.

“The Age of Youth in Argentina”: an interview with Valeria Manzano

By Mir Yarfitz Author Interviews, Childhood and Youth, Latin American Sexualities

How young people in Argentina asserted a new collective identity in the 1950s, ‘60s, and ‘70s.