‘An Equality of Injustice’: The Sex Buyers’ Bill and Lessons from History

By Sexual Labour, Sexual Violence, United Kingdom 1 comment

Sex workers living under these regimes have to keep selling sex in a climate made significantly more hostile by further criminalization.

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

By Asian Sexualities, Author Interviews, Empire and Colonialism, Sexual Labour 0 comments

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

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

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

Queer History and the Holocaust

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Queer experiences of the Holocaust have been marginalised, ignored and denied.

Sex on the Home Front: Venereal Disease and the Topography of Heterosexuality

By Medicine and the Body, Sexual Labour 3 comments

On July 26, 1942, a solider in the U.S. military found out that he had recently contracted a venereal disease.

“When Sex Threatened the State”: An Interview with Saheed Aderinto

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Aderinto argues that the British perceived prostitution as evidence of African “primitiveness.”

Uncovering Cleveland Street: Sexuality, Surveillance and late-Victorian Scandal

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Cleveland Street is an acknowledged milestone of London’s sexual past.