Naming & Shaming Women: Reporting on VD Trials During WWI

By Laura Lammasniemi July 28, 2016 Medicine and Sexuality 1 comment

In 1918 over 100 women were convicted for infecting a member of the armed forces with VD.

Syphilis Onstage: Eugène Brieux’s Damaged Goods

By Alicia Corts July 21, 2016 Medicine and Sexuality 2 comments

Brieux’s plot featured a main character wrestling with the physical and social ramifications of syphilis.

Resisting the Virus of Prejudice: Sex Workers Fight the AIDS Panic

By Mindy Chateauvert July 7, 2016 Medicine and Sexuality 0 comments

Sex workers, working as peer researchers, mapped the epidemiology of HIV in 1985.

Taking the Venereal Out of Venereal Disease: The 1930s Public Health Campaign against Syphilis and Gonorrhea

By Erin Wuebker May 31, 2016 Medicine and Sexuality 0 comments

VD was often associated with immorality.

Sex on the Home Front: Venereal Disease and the Topography of Heterosexuality

By Amanda Littauer April 5, 2016 Medicine and Sexuality, Sexual Labour 3 comments

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

By Donna Drucker March 24, 2016 Medicine and Sexuality, Post-1945 United States 3 comments

The late 1970s and early 1980s was the historical peak of interest in the cervical cap in the United States.

Sores, Scorn and Stigma? Suffering Syphilis in Early Modern Germany

By Mona OBrien March 22, 2016 Early Modern, Medicine and Sexuality 0 comments

The ‘French disease’ erupted in Europe in 1495.