The Wellcome Collection’s ‘Institute of Sexology’ was the first major event of its kind in the UK.
Tag: heterosexuality
Close Your Eyes and Think of Yorkshire? Working-class Women and Sexuality in Early Twentieth-Century Yorkshire
Looking at occupational patterns and cultures contributes to understanding working-class sexuality.
Archives of Desire: Analog Sexting
My grandparents helped pave the way for virtual trysts.
“I Had the First Orgasm”: Monica Lewinsky & the Politics of Heterosexuality in the 1990s
What happens if we take Monica Lewinsky at her word?
“Sodomy is not Adultery”: The Clinton Sex Scandal as Queer History
Alison Lefkovitz In 1998, the ABC newsmagazine Nightline fretted that the Clinton scandal with Monica Lewinsky would “come down to the question of whether oral sex does or does not constitute adultery.” President Bill Clinton, supposedly, had told Lewinsky that oral sex could not be adultery. He had told Gennifer […]
Sex on the Home Front: Venereal Disease and the Topography of Heterosexuality
On July 26, 1942, a solider in the U.S. military found out that he had recently contracted a venereal disease.
The Cervical Cap in the Feminist Women’s Health Movement, 1976–1988
The late 1970s and early 1980s was the historical peak of interest in the cervical cap in the United States.
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