The Transformation of American Sex Education: Mary Calderone and the Fight for Sexual Health

By Ellen S. More Author Interviews

How sex education was turned into a flashpoint of the culture wars, a stalking horse for the newly emergent extreme right wing from the late 1960s to the present.

The Closet and the Cul-de-Sac The Politics of Sexual Privacy in Northern California

By Clayton Howard 20th and 21st Century United States, Author Interviews, LGBTQ

Not just a story of polarization between Gay Liberation and the Religious Right, this is also a story of a consensus over the value of protecting straight privilege.

Loving Animals: On Bestiality, Zoophilia, and Post-Human Love

By Joanna Bourke Animal Sexuality, Author Interviews

How have commentators talked about sex with animals and what meanings have been attached to ‘bestiality’ or ‘zoophilia’?

A Red Hot Cold War

By Emily Lobenstein Modern Europe

The 1990 Soviet edition of Playboy reveals the persistent tension between the United States and the Soviet Union.

Responses to the Medicalization of Transsexualism

By Galen Comerford Trans

Many in the trans community feared the power that a psychiatric diagnosis lends professionals over trans lives.

Too Hot and Horny for the Centers for Disease Control

By Dan Royles LGBTQ, Race and Ethnicity

Conservative resistance to government funding for AIDS education was racialized and sexualized.

The History of Sexuality has a Jewish Problem

By Gillian Frank Religion and Sexuality

I had the pleasure of being a respondent at a conference in honor of Heather White and Anthony Petro’s path breaking publications Reforming Sodom and After the Wrath of God.