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Sexual Violence Against Children in the 1960s
Narratives of abuse have taken on different forms during different moments.
How to Study an American Sex Scandal
When does sex become a political weapon?
Wolfenden, Paederasty and Paedophilia
What do the Wolfenden Papers have to say about paederasty and paedophilia?
“I Had the First Orgasm”: Monica Lewinsky & the Politics of Heterosexuality in the 1990s
What happens if we take Monica Lewinsky at her word?
“Sodomy is not Adultery”: The Clinton Sex Scandal as Queer History
Men and women could engage in a range of sex acts, which the courts recognized as sodomy, and still maintain that they had not technically cheated.
Sex on the Home Front: Venereal Disease and the Topography of Heterosexuality
On July 26, 1942, a solider in the U.S. military found out that he had recently contracted a venereal disease.
