Sores, Scorn and Stigma? Suffering Syphilis in Early Modern Germany

By Mona OBrien Early Modern, Medicine and the Body

The ‘French disease’ erupted in Europe in 1495.

Histories of Sexuality and the Carceral State–Part 1

By Devin McGeehan Muchmore 20th and 21st Century United States, Early America

What can histories of sexuality and gender tell us about the carceral state?

CFP: Histories of Magic and Sexuality

By Mackenzie Cooley CFP

How have perceptions of magic shaped sexuality, love, and reproduction?

History of Sexuality at the 2016 European Social Science History Conference

By notcheseditor History of Sexuality

The Eleventh European Social Science History conference (ESSHC) takes place from March 30 to April 2, 2016, in Valencia, Spain.

Presidential Penis Politics: A Micro-History

By Rachel Hope Cleves Early America

Donald J. Trump’s penis, size unknown, has reared its head as a political issue.

“The Unreasonable Indulgence of That Appetite”: Cancer as a Venereal Disease in the Nineteenth Century

By Agnes Arnold-Forster Medicine and the Body, United Kingdom

Cancer was a venereal disease to be considered alongside syphilis and gonorrhoea.

Moral Panic and Syphilis in Jamaica

By Jill Briggs Empire and Colonialism, Medicine and the Body

Venereal diseases became a means through which colonial elites and moral reformers condemned, surveilled, and made medical interventions against the Jamaican masses.