How to Write the History of Pederasty in the Age of Groomers

By Rachel Hope Cleves Childhood and Youth 0 comments

Rachel Hope Cleves closes out the symposium on her book Unspeakable: A Life Beyond Sexual Morality.

Unspeakable Practices Under the Capri Sun  

By Alessio Ponzio Childhood and Youth 0 comments

Alessio Ponzio guides us through transformations in Italian sexual culture in this second post in our online symposium on Rachel Hope Cleves’s Unspeakable: A Life Beyond Sexual Morality.

Of Polymaths and Pederasts: Reflections on Rachel Hope Cleves’s Unspeakable

By Joseph Fischel Childhood and Youth 0 comments

Joseph Fischel reflects on histories of sexual ethics, pederasty, and power in this first post in our online symposium on Rachel Hope Cleves’s Unspeakable: A Life Beyond Sexual Morality.

The Beauty and the Terror

By Catherine Fletcher Author Interviews, Early Modern 0 comments

The Italian Renaissance was far stranger and darker than many of us realise, and that sex and sexuality played an important role in this unsavoury side of the sixteenth century.

Same-Sex Marriage in Renaissance Rome

By Katherine Harvey Author Interviews, Early Modern, LGBTQ 0 comments

Same-sex couples in the early modern period claimed marriage in their own particular ways.

Italian Sexualities Uncovered

By Chiara Beccalossi Modern Europe 0 comments

Havelock Ellis explained that it had been Italian sexological works that had first prompted his interest in sexology.

‘Pray the gay away’: The Catholic Church, Sexology and Sexuality in Italy

By Chiara Beccalossi LGBTQ, Modern Europe 0 comments

There is a new movement to ‘pray the gay away’ at a Catholic retreat in Angolo Terme in Brescia.