Sexual science emerged contemporaneously in Europe, Asia, Peru, and the Middle East.
Medicine and the Body
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’.
AIDS, Sexuality and American Religion: An Interview With Anthony Petro
Religious responses to the emergence of AIDS in the United States in the 1980s and 90s.
CFP: The History of Venereal Disease
What role have venereal diseases played in the history of sexuality?
Out in the Open: Rural Life, Respectability, and the Nudist Park
The American countryside provided an ideal setting for the principles of nudism.
“What can I do to be normal?” Queer Female Desire in Letters to Dr. Alfred Kinsey
Many postwar Americans were obsessed with sexual normality but their stories reveal queer possibilities.
The Sacred Precincts of Marital Bedrooms: Religion and the Making of Griswold
Liberal clergy helped build a broad popular consensus in favor of birth control, at least for married couples, during the late 1950s and 1960s.
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Come to My Cottage: Queer Pleasures and Female Fandom in the Silent Hollywood Era
A Love Letter to Bolts Nightclub
Criminally Queer: The Bolton 7
The Massage Establishments Scandal: Coding and De-coding Sex Work at the Turn of the Twentieth Century
Left Out: Boys, Sex, and the Challenge of “Gross Indecency” Records in Irish History