Havelock Ellis explained that it had been Italian sexological works that had first prompted his interest in sexology.
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The FBI, Sexual Predators and the Mann Act
The Mann Act protected women from “human vultures who fatten on the shame of innocent young girls.”
An Intimate History of German Soldiers in the First World War
Some Great War soldiers transgressed masculine gender norms by dreaming of being women.
“To Love Without Fear”: Feminist and LGBTQ Mobilizations in Brazil
“Love Without Fear” plays on the interim president’s last name, which means “fear” in Portuguese.
Phyllis Schlafly and the Making of Grassroots Conservative Sexual Politics
Phyllis Schlafly stood at the epicenter of conservative sexual politics.
Prison Sex in the Mid-Victorian English Convict System
Penal administrators and reformers viewed the potential spread of ‘unnatural crime’ with horror.
History of Sexuality Blog Seeks Assistant Editors
NOTCHES is seeking two graduate student Assistant Editors.
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Drag: A British History
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Urning: Queer Identity in the German Nineteenth Century
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Race, Sexuality and Identity in Britain and Jamaica: The Biography of Patrick Nelson, 1916-1963
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The Bars Are Ours: Histories and Cultures of Gay Bars in America, 1960 and After
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In a Rapture of Distress: Women’s Sexuality and Modern India