The Brothel of Pompeii

By Sarah Levin-Richardson March 26, 2020 Ancient World, Author Interviews 0 comments

Pompeii’s brothel is the only verifiable brothel from Greco-Roman antiquity.

Out of the Closet, Into the Archives: Researching Sexual Histories

By Jaime Cantrell October 20, 2016 LGBTQ 1 comment

Can an archive offer “proof” that historians often seek out?

Resisting the Virus of Prejudice: Sex Workers Fight the AIDS Panic

By Mindy Chateauvert July 7, 2016 HIV/AIDS, Medicine and the Body 0 comments

Sex workers, working as peer researchers, mapped the epidemiology of HIV in 1985.

Histories of Sexuality and the Carceral State—Part 2

By Regina Kunzel July 5, 2016 20th and 21st Century United States 0 comments

How do race, gender, and sexuality intersect in order to shape policing and imprisonment?

Rape & the Sexual Politics of Homosociality: The U.S. Military Occupation of Okinawa

By Aiko Takeuchi-Demirci November 17, 2015 20th and 21st Century United States, Asian Sexualities, Empire and Colonialism, Sexual Violence 0 comments

The metaphor of rape has framed understandings of the U.S. military’s occupation of Okinawa.

“When Sex Threatened the State”: An Interview with Saheed Aderinto

By Saheed Aderinto August 25, 2015 African Sexualities, Author Interviews, Empire and Colonialism, Sexual Labour 0 comments

Aderinto argues that the British perceived prostitution as evidence of African “primitiveness.”

365 Notches: (re)marks on our 1st anniversary

By notcheseditor January 6, 2015 History of Sexuality 0 comments

It’s hard to believe that we are celebrating one year of Notches! On 6 January 2014,