Medicine and Sexuality

Bad for the Soul, Good for the Body: Religion, Medicine and Masturbation in the Middle Ages

By Katherine Harvey November 19, 2015 Medicine and Sexuality, Medieval 1 comment

The monk could no longer be considered a virgin, since he has been ‘polluted…through masturbation’.

soldier prostitute

Army Education Commission, Social Hygiene Division circa 1916-1919 Box 177, Folder 1

Title Steady, buddy, there's a come-back
Contributors U.S. Army Educational Commission
Date 1918
Extent 8" x 10"
Physical Form Poster
Type of Resource Still Image
Subject Health education
World War, 1914-1918. United States. Posters
Sexually transmitted diseases
Military education
Prostitution
Language eng
Physical location University of Minnesota Libraries, Social Welfare History Archives. http://special.lib.umn.edu/swha/
Local identifier swhp0187
purl http://purl.umn.edu/62388
Access conditions Use of this image may be governed by U.S. and international copyright laws. Please contact the Social Welfare History Archives for permission to publish this image. http://special.lib.umn.edu/swha/

CFP: The History of Venereal Disease

By notcheseditor October 20, 2015 CFP, Medicine and Sexuality 0 comments

What role have venereal diseases played in the history of sexuality?

Out in the Open: Rural Life, Respectability, and the Nudist Park

By Brian Hoffman September 17, 2015 Medicine and Sexuality 4 comments

Brian Hoffman In the early 1930s, after attending a showing of This Nude World at the Castle Theater in Chicago, Alois Knapp and his wife Lorena decided to convert their 200-acre farm located in Roselawn, Indiana into a nudist camp. Although they had never dreamed that they would go into […]

The Sacred Precincts of Marital Bedrooms: Religion and the Making of Griswold

By notcheseditor July 9, 2015 Medicine and Sexuality, Post-1945 United States, Religion and Sexuality 0 comments

In our final installment of Notches’ series commemorating the fiftieth anniversary of the 1965 Griswold v. Connecticut decision, Heather Munro Prescott invites us to reconsider the significance of Griswold by focusing on the ways in which liberal clergy helped build a broad popular consensus on birth control. In so doing, Prescott foregrounds how liberal religion […]

The Conservative Roots of the Reproductive Rights Revolution

By notcheseditor July 7, 2015 Medicine and Sexuality, Post-1945 United States 0 comments

In our second installment of Notches’ series commemorating the fiftieth anniversary of the 1965 Griswold v. Connecticut decision, Beth Bailey invites us to complicate progressive narratives of the sexual revolution by analyzing the conservative underpinnings of Griswold and to re-focus our attention on women’s hard-fought struggles to redefine their roles in American society. Beth Bailey When I teach […]

Too Little, Too Late: The Path To Griswold v. Connecticut

By notcheseditor June 25, 2015 Editors Picks, Medicine and Sexuality 1 comment

It had taken fifty years to defeat the repressive, prudish and sexist ban on birth control.

Astrological Birth Control: Fertility Awareness and the Politics of Non-Hormonal Contraception

By Donna Drucker June 11, 2015 Medicine and Sexuality 0 comments

Donna J. Drucker Astrological birth control was an outgrowth of increasing interests in the late 1960s and early 1970s in horoscopes and astrology, self-advocacy and self-knowledge in the women’s health movement, and in the management of reproduction without artificial means. Pope Paul VI declared in the 1968 encyclical Humane Vitae […]