Sexual secrets were nothing new in the 1700s, but confessing them to a doctor became surprisingly common.
Medicine and the Body
Sex, Disease, and Fertility in History
If you’re looking for evidence about bodies in history, it doesn’t get harder than skeletons.
After Roe: Engaging the Lost History of the Abortion Debate
Grassroots activists and politicians responded to the 1973 ruling in the two decades that followed it.
Through the Eyes of the Establishment: Student Sexuality and the Dean of Women’s Office at Purdue University
In the early 1960s, Purdue created an atmosphere that increased female students’ freedom, but only provided piecemeal sex education and counseling.
A Christmas Abortion
On Christmas Eve 1955, Jacqueline Smith died from an illegal abortion at her boyfriend Thomas G. Daniel’s apartment.
Found in Translation: How Sexual Debates Developed Across the Modern World
Sexual science emerged contemporaneously in Europe, Asia, Peru, and the Middle East.
Bad for the Soul, Good for the Body: Religion, Medicine and Masturbation in the Middle Ages
The monk could no longer be considered a virgin, since he has been ‘polluted…through masturbation’.