Rachel Hope Cleves closes out the symposium on her book Unspeakable: A Life Beyond Sexual Morality.
Tag: Italy
Unspeakable Practices Under the Capri Sun
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
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
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
Same-sex couples in the early modern period claimed marriage in their own particular ways.
Italian Sexualities Uncovered
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
There is a new movement to ‘pray the gay away’ at a Catholic retreat in Angolo Terme in Brescia.