We have to work creatively with our sources to understand what medieval people were doing with one another.
Tag: female sexuality
Intimate Worlds: Exploring Sexuality Through the Wellcome Collection
The Wellcome Library is a rich source of material for the study of historical attitudes towards sex and the human body.
Finding the lesbian premodern: Does it take one to know one?
How can we find out about female same-sex experiences and intimacy in the middle ages?
(Sexual) Labour Day
Researching prostitution makes Julia Laite more of a labour historian than a historian of sexuality.
Beards, Real Men, and Poseurs: male sexuality and fashion since around 1900
Male fashion has long been central to the way we define what it means to be a ‘real’ man.
Sex and the King: Rumours, Reputation and the Problem of Royal Adultery in Medieval England
Medieval people scrutinised and judged the sex lives of their rulers.
The Censorship of Female Pleasure: Cleland, Charlie Countryman, Cunnilingus
What does censorship of John Cleland’s novel tell us about attitudes to female pleasure?