Two queer men elevated the simple pasty to a luxurious, gourmet meal.
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The Hunger of the Finnish Bachelor: Married Men, Desire & Domesticity in 20th Century Finland
Summer widowers might attempt to recapture the erotic possibility of their single days.
Sex & Food in the Nineteenth-Century American Metropolis
Scandal erupted in a Philadelphia marketplace one Saturday morning in August 1839.
A Chile is Never Just a Chile: Food & Sex in Mexico Before & After Colonization
Eating and reproduction are crucial biological processes that are fraught with emotional meanings.
Tempests and Teapots: Sexual Politics and Tea-Drinking in the Early Modern World
The American Revolution is impossible to understand without food and sex at its center.
Revisiting Love’s ‘Golden Age’
Alana Harris and Timothy Willem Jones In the first week of July, we were among over two hundred historians who attended the Rethinking Modern British Studies conference at the University of Birmingham. Alongside our own panel on religion and sexuality, a number of the plenary speakers and the concurrent sessions […]
Digital Witnesses: The Parker-Hulme Murder Case and the Teaching of Crime and Sexual Deviance
The Parker-Hulme murder gripped the town of Christchurch, New Zealand in the summer of 1954.
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