Aderinto argues that the British perceived prostitution as evidence of African “primitiveness.”
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Uncovering Cleveland Street: Sexuality, Surveillance and late-Victorian Scandal
Cleveland Street is an acknowledged milestone of London’s sexual past.
Drunk Canadians in London, November 1916
The sexual history of war lies at the very heart of the history of war itself.
Sex, race and censorship in Cuba: Historicising the P.M. affair
A short experimental film has gone down in history as the catalyst for one of the early crises of the Cuban Revolution.
Historians are gossips who tease the dead
I was a gossip, teasing the dead.
(Sexual) Labour Day
Researching prostitution makes Julia Laite more of a labour historian than a historian of 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.
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