The sexual history of war lies at the very heart of the history of war itself.
Tag: prostitution
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.
The Censorship of Female Pleasure: Cleland, Charlie Countryman, Cunnilingus
What does censorship of John Cleland’s novel tell us about attitudes to female pleasure?
Valentine’s as Prostitution, Marriage as a Trade: Commerce, Sex, History (and a recipe)
Valentine’s Day most certainly blends sex, love, and commerce.
