motive opened up a space within which a departure from heteronormative values became possible
Tag: Religion and sexuality
“A Poison More Deadly”: Defining Obscenity in the West
Under the scrutiny of the British legal system, no work was safe from being deemed obscene.
Catholicism, Contraception, and The History of Sexuality
The Commission had the potential to challenge the very nature of Catholic epistemology.
The Cologne Sexual Assaults in Historical Perspective
The language of xenophobia and nationalism has long been staged on women’s bodies.
Martin Luther King Jr. and the History of Sexuality
What sources would you use to place Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. within the history of sexuality?
Truly Ugandan: Martyrs, Pope Francis, and the Question of Sexuality
Francis obscured both the colonial Christian and queer sexual contexts of the executions.
Bad for the Soul, Good for the Body: Religion, Medicine and Masturbation in the Middle Ages
The monk could no longer be considered a virgin, since he has been ‘polluted…through masturbation’.