Eating and reproduction are crucial biological processes that are fraught with emotional meanings.
Recent Posts
Food and Sex Through the Ages
Expressing interest in both the history of food and the history of sexuality still has the power to raise eyebrows.
Tempests and Teapots: Sexual Politics and Tea-Drinking in the Early Modern World
The American Revolution is impossible to understand without food and sex at its center.
Out in the Open: Rural Life, Respectability, and the Nudist Park
The American countryside provided an ideal setting for the principles of nudism.
Revisiting Love’s ‘Golden Age’
Love has a history, but that its history is not quite what we thought it was.
Digital Witnesses: The Parker-Hulme Murder Case and the Teaching of Crime and Sexual Deviance
The Parker-Hulme murder gripped the town of Christchurch, New Zealand in the summer of 1954.
Women’s Experiences in Fornication and Paternity Suits in Massachusetts, 1740-1800
Women’s confessions and paternity suits reveal a host of information about the sexual lives of early Americans.
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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