Sexual science emerged contemporaneously in Europe, Asia, Peru, and the Middle East.
Tag: literature
Her Virginal Members: Chastity and Sexual Desire in the Middle-Ages
Aelred of Rievaulx’s writings help us to understand medieval experiences of sex and sexual desire.
Archives of Desire: James Huneker “Nosophilia: A Nordau Heroine”
Discussions of “deviant” sexuality were visible and vibrant within artistic and literary communities.
"The Gay Bulge" or Can We Study Medieval Sexuality Through Puns?
Perhaps sometimes a ‘gay bulge’ is just a gae bolga.
Beyond penetration: rethinking the murder of Edward II
Was Edward II’s brutal murder related to his sexual behaviour?
Curating LGBTQ Histories: Queer Season at Sutton House
Just a decade ago, the idea of an exhibition addressing LGBT themes in a National Trust house would likely have been dismissed.
Queer round the edges: Mary Stewart’s post-war middlebrow fiction (cont’d)
In Stewart’s world homosexuality in any form brings a touch of exoticism and sophistication to proceedings.