The sexual history of war lies at the very heart of the history of war itself.
Sexual Labour
Sex, race and censorship in Cuba: Historicising the P.M. affair
A short experimental film has gone down in history as the catalyst for one of the early crises of the Cuban Revolution.
Historians are gossips who tease the dead
I was a gossip, teasing the dead.
Jack the Ripper: Case Never Closed
Why does Jack the Ripper generate so much popular interest?
Where are animals in the history of sexuality?
What is the place of animals in the history of sexuality?
(Sexual) Labour Day
Researching prostitution makes Julia Laite more of a labour historian than a historian of sexuality.
Valentine’s as Prostitution, Marriage as a Trade: Commerce, Sex, History (and a recipe)
Valentine’s Day most certainly blends sex, love, and commerce.
Recent Posts
Of Polymaths and Pederasts: Reflections on Rachel Hope Cleves’s <i>Unspeakable</i>
Raúl Luis Suarez’s Smile and The Ruthless Archive
The Shapes of Fancy: Reading for Queer Desire in Early Modern Literature
Queer as Cop: Gay Patrol Units and the White Fantasy of Safety
Campaigning for Lesbian and Gay Rights in Ireland, 1981-1993