It had taken fifty years to defeat the repressive, prudish and sexist ban on birth control.
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‘Pray the gay away’: The Catholic Church, Sexology and Sexuality in Italy
There is a new movement to ‘pray the gay away’ at a Catholic retreat in Angolo Terme in Brescia.
The Perfect Corpse: Death, Virginity and the Bishop in Medieval Europe
How could a medieval corpse reflect a person’s sexual behaviour?
The Sex Institute on Euston Road
One of the most significant threads the “Institute of Sexology” unwinds is the intertwined development of sexology and ways female sexuality was perceived.
Reading Silences in Histories of Religion and Sexuality
How do we, as scholars of religion, interrogate the silences in our sources?
Jeffrey Weeks reflects on "Sexual Politics in the Era of Reagan and Thatcher"
I can’t help thinking about the importance of having an open, exploratory, but consistent political and intellectual project.
Bestiality in a Time of Smallpox
At the turn of the 19th century, opponents of Edward Jenner’s method for preventing smallpox likened vaccination to bestiality.