1970s pornography included far more than Deep Throat (1972).
Recent Posts
Tongzhi: “Queer” Identity Politics in Hong Kong Before and After the Handover
Chinese ‘tongzhi’ renounce Western LGBT politic and reclaim an indigenous “queer” identity.
Queering Hippolytus: Asexuality and Ancient Greece
Using the Greek myth of Hippolytus to do a little modern myth-busting about asexuality.
Do I have to have sex with my spouse? Two medieval answers
What role did sex play in medieval marriages, and did spouses owe each other a ‘marital debt’?
Queer History in the Divided City: A New Approach to Digital Mapping
St. Louis’s queer geography complicates patterns of racial polarization.
‘Deviant and over-sexed’ or ‘respectful and vanilla’: Intimate stories from Australian Lesbians
Oral histories with Australian lesbians demonstrate a complex mix of intimate practices and behaviours.
Teaching the Early Modern “Penis-Vagina”
Presenting Vesalius’ “penis-vagina” (as many students took to calling it) on the first day of class immediately primed students to dissect early modern social constructions of gender and sexuality.