How do we think about sexual freedom in a way that is capacious enough to include countries that have not had a sexual revolution?
Tag: Religion and sexuality
The Transformation of American Sex Education: Mary Calderone and the Fight for Sexual Health
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
Why has the ideal of chastity has persisted for so many centuries?
Abortion and Contraception in Modern Greece, 1830-1967
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
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
Medieval theologians, like modern activists, used animals to make arguments about human sexuality.
Virgin Whore
A surprisingly prevalent theme in late English medieval literature and culture: the celebration of the Virgin Mary’s sexuality.
