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Tag: eighteenth century
Itch, Clap, Pox: Venereal Disease in the Eighteenth-Century Imagination
How venereal disease was represented in eighteenth-century British literature and art.
“Well Known as Miss Betty Cooper”: Gender Expression in 18th-Century Boston
One 1771 advertisement sought the recapture of an enslaved person known by two names: Cato and Miss Betty Cooper.
Pleasing and Teasing: Bourgeois Sexuality in the Age of Commerce
Angelica Church lived at the intersection of two revolutions, in a world of dangerous financial speculation, intense political intrigue, and the play of passions between men and women.
“She was both Poxt and Clapt together”: Confessions of Sexual Secrets in Eighteenth-Century Venereal Cases
Sexual secrets were nothing new in the 1700s, but confessing them to a doctor became surprisingly common.
From Cod to Codpieces: Benjamin Franklin’s Guide to Food and Sex
Benjamin Franklin’s dalliances with a cod may not seem particularly notable, given his other exploits.
Tempests and Teapots: Sexual Politics and Tea-Drinking in the Early Modern World
The American Revolution is impossible to understand without food and sex at its center.
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