A short experimental film has gone down in history as the catalyst for one of the early crises of the Cuban Revolution.
Sexual Labour
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.
Sinead and Miley: A History Lesson
Blurred lines between the protection and the control of women’s sexuality in the past and in the present,
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