In a Rapture of Distress: Women’s Sexuality and Modern India

By Amrita Narayanan Author Interviews

How do we think about sexual freedom in a way that is capacious enough to include countries that have not had a sexual revolution?

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 Chastity Plot

By Lisabeth During Author Interviews, Religion and Sexuality

Why has the ideal of chastity has persisted for so many centuries?

Abortion and Contraception in Modern Greece, 1830-1967

By Violetta Hionidou Author Interviews, Medicine and the Body, Modern Europe

Abortion and contraception before the Pill: the case of Modern Greece.

‘Behaviour Which Merits a Horrible and Wretched Death’: Sex, Sin and the Black Death in Medieval England

By Katherine Harvey Medieval

Medieval people feared that the Black Death was a punishment for sin, and hoped that abstaining from sex could save them.

Gay penguins, medieval heretics, and the place of animals in the history of sexuality

By Tim Wingard Medieval

Medieval theologians, like modern activists, used animals to make arguments about human sexuality.

Virgin Whore

By Emma Maggie Solberg Author Interviews, Medieval, Religion and Sexuality

A surprisingly prevalent theme in late English medieval literature and culture: the celebration of the Virgin Mary’s sexuality.