Race, Sexuality and Identity in Britain and Jamaica: The Biography of Patrick Nelson, 1916-1963

By Gemma Romain Author Interviews

Patrick Nelson: queer black Jamaican man, queer black migrant in interwar London, WWII serviceman, POW and witness to Jamaican histories of colonialism and decolonization.

Virgin Whore

By Emma Maggie Solberg Author Interviews, Medieval, Religion and Sexuality

A surprisingly prevalent theme in late English medieval literature and culture: the celebration of the Virgin Mary’s sexuality.

Itch, Clap, Pox: Venereal Disease in the Eighteenth-Century Imagination

By Noelle Gallagher Author Interviews, Early Modern, Medicine and the Body, United Kingdom

How venereal disease was represented in eighteenth-century British literature and art.

Lust on Trial: Censorship and the Rise of American Obscenity in the Age of Anthony Comstock

By Amy Werbel 20th and 21st Century United States, Author Interviews

Lust on Trial chronicles intensive efforts to purify American sexuality (1873-1915), and their epic failure.

A Relationship Revealed

By Cassandra Good Early America

The miniature “Beauty Revealed” suggests an erotic relationship between an early American artist and a statesman.

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.