Hirsute Histories: A Notches Special Issue

By Justin Bengry LGBTQ

As Movember passes into Decembeard Notches is showcasing facial hair.

Histories of Sexualities in Central and Eastern Europe

By Lukasz Szulc LGBTQ, Modern Europe

Historical studies of sexualities in Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) remain scarce.

Bad for the Soul, Good for the Body: Religion, Medicine and Masturbation in the Middle Ages

By Katherine Harvey Medicine and the Body, Medieval

The monk could no longer be considered a virgin, since he has been ‘polluted…through masturbation’.

Rape & the Sexual Politics of Homosociality: The U.S. Military Occupation of Okinawa

By Aiko Takeuchi-Demirci 20th and 21st Century United States, Asian Sexualities, Empire and Colonialism, Sexual Violence

The metaphor of rape has framed understandings of the U.S. military’s occupation of Okinawa.

Homophile Priests, LGBT Rights, and Scottish Churches, 1967-1986

By Jeff Meek LGBTQ, United Kingdom

From its inception in 1969, the Scottish Minorities Group (SMG) saw amicable relations with Scottish churches as imperative.

Stalling Civil Rights: Conservative Sexual Thought has been in the Toilet Since the 1940s

By Gillian Frank 20th and 21st Century United States, Childhood and Youth, Trans

The conservative idea that civil rights protections sexually endanger women and children in public bathrooms is not new.

Dr. Spock and the History of Sexuality

By Janet Golden 20th and 21st Century United States, Childhood and Youth

Serendipitously, on June 26, 2015, I found several letters to Spock regarding homosexuality.