Rethinking Early Modern Women’s Masturbation

By Paige Donaghy Early Modern

Why is women’s masturbation absent from most studies examining sexual practices of early modern people?

CFP: Transgender Histories

By notcheseditor CFP

How might historians make sense of trans in past tenses?

Pleasing and Teasing: Bourgeois Sexuality in the Age of Commerce

By Tom Cutterham Early Modern

Angelica Church lived at the intersection of two revolutions, in a world of dangerous financial speculation, intense political intrigue, and the play of passions between men and women.

Searching for Sodom: Homoeroticism and the Protestant Tradition in England 1550-1850

By Harry Cocks Early Modern

The story of Sodom provided a context for discussions of homoerotic behavior.

Porno Chic and the Sex Wars: A Roundtable on the Politics of Sexual Representations in the 1970s – Part 2

By Gillian Frank 20th and 21st Century United States

What can pornography’s history tell us about its basic appeal?

Too Hot and Horny for the Centers for Disease Control

By Dan Royles LGBTQ, Race and Ethnicity

Conservative resistance to government funding for AIDS education was racialized and sexualized.

The Legal Invention of Lesbian Sexuality in Canada

By Karen Pearlston Canada

The Divorce Act of 1968 led Canadian judges to create a legal category to describe sex between women.