The Transformation of American Sex Education: Mary Calderone and the Fight for Sexual Health

By Ellen S. More Author Interviews

How sex education was turned into a flashpoint of the culture wars, a stalking horse for the newly emergent extreme right wing from the late 1960s to the present.

Sex in the Archives: Writing American Sexual Histories

By Barry Reay 20th and 21st Century United States, Author Interviews

Sex in the Archives is an experiment in writing an American sexual history that refuses the confines of identity in sexuality studies.

Rethinking Early Modern Women’s Masturbation

By Paige Donaghy Early Modern

Why is women’s masturbation absent from most studies examining sexual practices of early modern people?

Searching for Sodom: Homoeroticism and the Protestant Tradition in England 1550-1850

By Harry Cocks Early Modern

The story of Sodom provided a context for discussions of homoerotic behavior.

Discovering Sex in the Civil War

By Judith Giesberg Early America

Surrounded by death, Civil War soldiers found pleasure and fraternity in sharing erotic pictures and prints.

Sex and the Devil: An Interview with Laura Stokes

By Mackenzie Cooley Author Interviews, Early Modern, Religion and Sexuality

‘The witch is a witch not only because she magically devours, destroys, or rides wolves, but also because she has sex with the devil.’

Out of the Closet, Into the Archives: Researching Sexual Histories

By Jaime Cantrell LGBTQ

Can an archive offer “proof” that historians often seek out?