"What a Woman Is": Breast Cancer, Sexuality and the Unreconstructed Self

By Agnes Arnold-Forster Medicine and the Body

Some nineteenth-century British physicians looked towards physical embodiments of femaleness for explanations for breast cancer.

Cunnilingus in the Middle Ages and the Problem of Understanding Past Sex Lives

By Tom O'Donnell Medieval

We have to work creatively with our sources to understand what medieval people were doing with one another.

Heterosexuality in America: Fifty Years and Counting

By Marc Stein 20th and 21st Century United States, LGBTQ

Let’s also mark the fiftieth anniversary of the founding of Drum.

Born This Way? Sexual Science and the Invention of a Political Strategy

By Jana Funke LGBTQ

The ‘born this way’ argument has also been subjected to substantial criticism.

Aesthetic uses of sex in early Japanese Butoh dance

By Michael Facius Asian Sexualities

Artistic networks and discourses spanned cultural centers from Tokyo to Paris and New York.

Rethinking Bussing in the 1970s: The Sexual Politics of School Integration in the United States

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

In the United States, racial divisions have long been sexualized.

‘A Temporary Member’: ‘Hermaphrodites’ and Sexual Identity in Early Modern Russia

By Marianna Muravyeva Early Modern, LGBTQ, Medicine and the Body

‘Hermaphrodites’ represented a true puzzle for the authorities and local community.