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

By Andrew Ross Author Interviews, LGBTQ, Modern Europe, Sexual Labour

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

Queer History and the Holocaust

By Anna Hajkova LGBTQ, Modern Europe, Sexual Labour, Sexual Violence

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

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

By Amanda Littauer Medicine and the Body, Sexual Labour

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

By Saheed Aderinto African Sexualities, Author Interviews, Empire and Colonialism, Sexual Labour

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

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

By Katie Hindmarch-Watson LGBTQ, Sexual Labour, United Kingdom

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

Drunk Canadians in London, November 1916

By Julia Laite Canada, Sexual Labour, United Kingdom

The sexual history of war lies at the very heart of the history of war itself.

Sex, race and censorship in Cuba: Historicising the P.M. affair

By Carrie Hamilton Latin American Sexualities, Race and Ethnicity, Sexual Labour

A short experimental film has gone down in history as the catalyst for one of the early crises of the Cuban Revolution.