Tag: heterosexuality

From Cod to Codpieces: Benjamin Franklin’s Guide to Food and Sex

By notcheseditor October 22, 2015 Food and Sexuality 1 comment

Benjamin Franklin’s dalliances with a cod may not seem particularly notable, given his other exploits.

The Hunger of the Finnish Bachelor: Married Men, Desire & Domesticity in 20th Century Finland

By notcheseditor October 6, 2015 Food and Sexuality, Modern Europe 0 comments

Summer widowers might attempt to recapture the erotic possibility of their single days.

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 […]

Revisiting Love’s ‘Golden Age’

By notcheseditor September 15, 2015 United Kingdom 1 comment

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 […]

“What can I do to be normal?” Queer Female Desire in Letters to Dr. Alfred Kinsey

By Amanda Littauer August 20, 2015 LGBTQ, Post-1945 United States 0 comments

Amanda Littauer In 1949, a year after the publication of Dr. Alfred Kinsey’s notorious Sexual Behavior in the Human Male, a young African American woman from the Bronx sent Kinsey a private letter lamenting the “queer control” she seemed to have over other women. These women, she explained, would literally […]

Interracialintimacies.org: An Online Interactive Archives and Teaching Tool

By notcheseditor August 18, 2015 Asian Sexualities, Digital Humanities 0 comments

Mavis’ family photo album opened a door on a life of interracial intimacy.

Red War on the Family: An Interview with Erica Ryan

By ryanerica July 21, 2015 Author Interviews 0 comments

Interview by Christina Simmons Erica Ryan’s Red War on the Family (Temple 2014) argues that the first Red Scare–the backlash against and anxiety about domestic and foreign radicals–and its organizational progeny not only deeply shaped the American political world of the 1920s but also fundamentally affected ideas and practices of sexuality […]