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Recent Posts
Out and about with GLF in London, September 1971
There’s a real buzz about GLF and I want to be part of it.
‘Behaviour Which Merits a Horrible and Wretched Death’: Sex, Sin and the Black Death in Medieval England
Medieval people feared that the Black Death was a punishment for sin, and hoped that abstaining from sex could save them.
Moral Instruction, Venereal Disease, and Eugenic Manliness during World War I
Sexual health and the preservation of eugenically valuable British servicemen.
Reporting Abortions in Post-Conquest New Spain
A sixteenth-century scribe recorded the sexual and reproductive behaviour of indigenous women in colonial Mexico.
Three’s a Crowd?: Navigating a Love Triangle in Enlightenment France
How an Enlightenment philosopher understood the love between his mistress and her sister
“Clinical Demonstration by Two Expert Intellectuals”: Robert Latou Dickinson’s Representations of Sexual Intercourse
Dickinson’s representations of sexual encounters show the possibilities of gathering sex research data with live couples
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The Closet and the Cul-de-Sac The Politics of Sexual Privacy in Northern California
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The Ambivalence of Gay Liberation: Male Homosexual Politics in 1970s West Germany
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Queering Romantic Engagement in the Postal Age: A Rhetorical Education
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Licentious Worlds: Sex and Exploitation in Global Empires
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In Search of Sexual Health: Diagnosing and Treating Syphilis in Hot Springs, Arkansas