From Shame to Sin: Sexual Morality in Late Antiquity

By Katherine Harvey Ancient World, Author Interviews, Religion and Sexuality

With the new religion came new attitudes to sexual behaviour and morality

“The Church Fathers Really Squirmed”: Contesting Heteronorms in motive Magazine, 1962-1972

By Anna Clutterbuck-Cook LGBTQ

motive opened up a space within which a departure from heteronormative values became possible

“A Poison More Deadly”: Defining Obscenity in the West

By Brian Watson United Kingdom

Under the scrutiny of the British legal system, no work was safe from being deemed obscene.

Catholicism, Contraception, and The History of Sexuality

By David Geiringer Medicine and the Body, Religion and Sexuality

The Commission had the potential to challenge the very nature of Catholic epistemology.

The Cologne Sexual Assaults in Historical Perspective

By Michelle Lynn Kahn Modern Europe, Sexual Violence

The language of xenophobia and nationalism has long been staged on women’s bodies.

Martin Luther King Jr. and the History of Sexuality

By Gillian Frank 20th and 21st Century United States, Race and Ethnicity

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

By T.J. Tallie African Sexualities, Empire and Colonialism, Religion and Sexuality

Francis obscured both the colonial Christian and queer sexual contexts of the executions.