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?

“A Poison to the Race”: Women, Foreigners and VD in Modern Japan

By Aiko Takeuchi-Demirci Asian Sexualities

Japanese “AIDS panics” characterized women as the carriers of foreign-born sexual diseases.

Abortion Under Apartheid

By Nicole Bourbonnais African Sexualities, Author Interviews, Medicine and the Body, Race and Ethnicity

During apartheid (1948-1990), abortion was often used as a political tool.

Bad Girls: A Student Interview with Amanda Littauer

By Amanda Littauer 20th and 21st Century United States, Author Interviews, Childhood and Youth, LGBTQ

How young women and girls in the 1940s and 1950s pursued new sexual freedoms.

Resisting the Virus of Prejudice: Sex Workers Fight the AIDS Panic

By Mindy Chateauvert HIV/AIDS, Medicine and the Body

Sex workers, working as peer researchers, mapped the epidemiology of HIV in 1985.

Thinking Medievally: The Sexualisation Debate and Medieval Advice Literature

By Amy Burge Medieval

Concerns about the sexualisation of young women appear even in the late Middle Ages.