Clitoridectomies: Female Genital Mutilation c.1860-2014

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

Doctors in Britain removed the clitoris on women explicitly to eradicate elements of female libido.

Drunk Canadians in London, November 1916

By Julia Laite Canada, Sexual Labour, United Kingdom

The sexual history of war lies at the very heart of the history of war itself.

Deviant Domesticities: Reflections on the Queerness of Home

By Stephen Vider 20th and 21st Century United States, LGBTQ

Can the home be queered, or has the home been queer all along?

Sex, race and censorship in Cuba: Historicising the P.M. affair

By Carrie Hamilton Latin American Sexualities, Race and Ethnicity, Sexual Labour

A short experimental film has gone down in history as the catalyst for one of the early crises of the Cuban Revolution.

Something New, Something Old: LGBT Voices before Stonewall

By Donna Knaff 20th and 21st Century United States, LGBTQ

ONE, Inc., was “one of three major ‘homophile’ organizations of the 1950s and 1960s.”

Orthodox Sex: Alfred Kinsey and the Re-Making of Jewish Sexuality

By Rachel Gordan 20th and 21st Century United States, Religion and Sexuality

Orthodox writers sought to educate Americans about Judaism’s approach to sex.

Queer Sex in the Archives: “Canonizing Homophile Sexual Respectability"

By Whitney Strub 20th and 21st Century United States, LGBTQ

Sometimes the queer stars align right when it’s needed most.