A history of sexual attitudes and behaviour through five hundred years of empire-building around the world.
Tag: sex
Love, Sex, and Desire in Modern Egypt: Navigating the Margins of Respectability
Set in transnational Cairo over a two-decade period, this book is an ethnography about love and desire.
Controlling Sex in Captivity
The book is the first critical study of heterosexual and same-sex activities involving Axis prisoners of war in the United States during World War II.
Lust on Trial: Censorship and the Rise of American Obscenity in the Age of Anthony Comstock
Lust on Trial chronicles intensive efforts to purify American sexuality (1873-1915), and their epic failure.
Would you mind if Neil Bartlett asked you a few personal questions about sex?
The Wellcome Collection’s ‘Institute of Sexology’ was the first major event of its kind in the UK.
Sex, Disease, and Fertility in History
If you’re looking for evidence about bodies in history, it doesn’t get harder than skeletons.