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.

Too Hot and Horny for the Centers for Disease Control

By Dan Royles LGBTQ, Race and Ethnicity

Conservative resistance to government funding for AIDS education was racialized and sexualized.

Phyllis Schlafly and the Making of Grassroots Conservative Sexual Politics

By Stacie Taranto 20th and 21st Century United States

Phyllis Schlafly stood at the epicenter of conservative sexual politics.

The Catholic Church and Child Sexual Abuse in Twentieth-Century Ireland

By Averill Earls Modern Europe, Religion and Sexuality, Sexual Violence

It was their word against the word of the adults, the doers of God’s work on Earth.

Wolfenden, Paederasty and Paedophilia

By Brian Lewis Childhood and Youth, LGBTQ, United Kingdom

What do the Wolfenden Papers have to say about paederasty and paedophilia?

The Church of England, Sexual Morality & Institutional Decision-making

By Laura Ramsay Religion and Sexuality, United Kingdom

Homosexual law reform was supported by influential sections of the Church of England.

“The Gay Revolution”: An Interview with Lillian Faderman

By Lauren Gutterman 20th and 21st Century United States, Author Interviews, LGBTQ

The Gay Revolution provides a moving account of the LGBT movement in the United States.