‘Longer than a big man’s thigh’: The Perfect Penis in Medieval Europe

By Katherine Harvey October 26, 2021 Medieval 1 comment

What did medieval people think about penises?

Constructing the Pornographic Object of Knowledge

By Whitney Strub August 17, 2021 Author Interviews 0 comments

Contemporary pornography has become a massive archive of sexual scripts. To some extent pornography has replaced sexology, psychoanalysis and sex manuals as a form of knowledge about sexuality.

Vulnerable Constitutions: Queerness, Disability, and the Remaking of American Manhood

By Cynthia Barounis July 27, 2021 Author Interviews 0 comments

The rise of sexual science, in addition to creating new forms of stigma, also provided the imaginative resources for articulating new modes of resistance.

Raúl Luis Suarez’s Smile and The Ruthless Archive

By Patricio Simonetto March 9, 2021 Latin American Sexualities, Trans 0 comments

As historians know, the archive is ruthless in preserving categories over time.

“Men Working Together!”: The Queer Masculinity of World War Two Propaganda

By Chris Parkes March 5, 2019 20th and 21st Century United States, LGBTQ, Public History 0 comments

“The Art of War” featured a succession of posters featuring depictions of men in suggestive, even erotic, poses.

Desire Work: Ex-Gay and Pentecostal Masculinity in South Africa

By Melissa Hackman January 19, 2019 African Sexualities, Author Interviews, LGBTQ, Religion and Sexuality 0 comments

Desire Work documents the lives of mostly white, ex-gay Pentecostal men in Cape Town, South Africa.

Macho Tips: The Erotics of the Mexican Body in a Gay Magazine

By Juan Carlos Mezo Gonzalez September 18, 2018 Latin American Sexualities, LGBTQ, Race and Ethnicity 0 comments

The Mexican gay magazine Macho Tips (1985-1989) engaged with national ideologies of race and gender.