Summer widowers might attempt to recapture the erotic possibility of their single days.
Tag: masculinity
Sex and the Single Man in Late Medieval England
What constituted socially-acceptable premarital sex for young men in the late middle ages?
Drunk Canadians in London, November 1916
The sexual history of war lies at the very heart of the history of war itself.
Death by Celibacy: Sex, Semen and Male Health in the Middle Ages
Medieval priests were not supposed to have sex, but medical theory suggested that celibacy could kill them.
The Queer Caribbean: Conflicting Uses of the Colonial Past
Both anti-discrimination and pro-gay activists appeal to features of a pre-colonial past.
The Erotics of Shaving in Victorian Britain
Beardedness in nineteenth-century Britain had definite implications for manliness and sexuality.
Beards, Real Men, and Poseurs: male sexuality and fashion since around 1900
Male fashion has long been central to the way we define what it means to be a ‘real’ man.