The Catholic Church and Child Sexual Abuse in Twentieth-Century Ireland

By Averill Earls Modern Europe, Religion and Sexuality, Sexual Violence

It was their word against the word of the adults, the doers of God’s work on Earth.

Reverend Anna Garlin Spencer and the Rise of “Family Life” in Early Sex Education

By Kristy Slominski Religion and Sexuality

Liberal Protestants influenced major shifts—and later divisions—among sex educators.

Resisting the Virus of Prejudice: Sex Workers Fight the AIDS Panic

By Mindy Chateauvert HIV/AIDS, Medicine and the Body

Sex workers, working as peer researchers, mapped the epidemiology of HIV in 1985.

Histories of Sexuality and the Carceral State—Part 2

By Regina Kunzel 20th and 21st Century United States

How do race, gender, and sexuality intersect in order to shape policing and imprisonment?

‘Every time I see a cock I go funny’: what regional studies bring to histories of sexuality

By Helen Smith LGBTQ, United Kingdom

When sexual desire was not attached to notions of sexual identity.

Thinking Medievally: The Sexualisation Debate and Medieval Advice Literature

By Amy Burge Medieval

Concerns about the sexualisation of young women appear even in the late Middle Ages.

History from the Witness Stand: An Interview with George Chauncey

By Rachel Hope Cleves 20th and 21st Century United States, LGBTQ

George Chauncey has testified as an expert witness in more than thirty cases dealing with gay rights.