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.

Obscene Pedagogies: Transgressive Talk and Sexual Education in Late Medieval Britain

By Carissa Harris Author Interviews, Medieval, Pedagogy, Sexual Violence

Obscenity is useful as a tool for teaching about sex and consent in the Middle Ages, and today.

‘Good on the Romans!’ Museum Visitors Reflecting on Cultural Attitudes to Sex

By Jennifer Grove History of Sexuality, Public History

How does the public display of erotic artefacts from the past help modern visitors to reflect on their own attitudes to sex and sexuality?

Screening Swedish Sex in the United States, Language of Love (1969)

By Saniya Ghanoui Modern Europe

Whether Language of Love is pornographic or educational may still be up for debate, but the film was at the forefront of this conversation.

‘The first lessons on sex are taught without words’: Sex Education in New Zealand

By Claire Gooder Antipodean sexualities, Childhood and Youth

New Zealand used pictures to tell 20th-century teens compelling stories about ideal sex and intimacy.

Sex Education Battleground in Mexico

By Melanie Huska Latin American Sexualities

Sex education in Mexico remains a battlefield for struggle between the state and Catholics over moral jurisdiction.

Postwar Sex Education and the Roots of White Male Sexual Entitlement

By Susan Freeman 20th and 21st Century United States, Race and Ethnicity, Sexual Violence

White men remain relatively impervious to charges of sexual aggression, perhaps as a result of mid-century sex education.