A Bit of Casual Sex Up North: And What it Could Mean to the History of Sexuality

By Helen Smith LGBTQ, United Kingdom

Lots of working-class men having sex with each other in fields, behind pubs, at each others houses and, perhaps most significantly, at work.

Ageing and the history of sexuality

By Ben Mechen History of Sexuality

The place (or possibly absence) of old age, as an analytic category, in the history of sexuality.

"A filthy bruitish offence": Child sex abuse and the law in C17th England

By Jen Baker Childhood and Youth, Early Modern, Sexual Violence

Between 1674 and 1913 there are at least 570 documented Old Bailey cases involving adults accused of sexual relations with children.

Between the cracks: on being a historian of sex

By Julia Laite History of Sexuality

I enjoy working in fields that defy categorization or unifying conversations.