Constructing the Pornographic Object of Knowledge

By Whitney Strub 20th and 21st Century United States, Author Interviews, Sexual Labour

Contemporary pornography has become a massive archive of sexual scripts. To some extent pornography has replaced sexology, psychoanalysis and sex manuals as a form of knowledge about sexuality.

Sex & Food in the Nineteenth-Century American Metropolis

By Robert Gamble Early America, Food and Sexuality

Scandal erupted in a Philadelphia marketplace one Saturday morning in August 1839.

Before Grindr, or, The Dangers of the "Gay Bachelor"

By Justin Bengry LGBTQ, United Kingdom

When the UK government proposed the criminalization of queer personal ads.

Beards, Real Men, and Poseurs: male sexuality and fashion since around 1900

By Julia Laite History of Sexuality

Male fashion has long been central to the way we define what it means to be a ‘real’ man.

A Second Valentine’s Day: Japan’s ‘White Day’

By Michael Facius Asian Sexualities

On Valentine’s Day, women give presents to men, while on White Day, men return the favor.