Tag: commercial sex

“When Sex Threatened the State”: An Interview with Saheed Aderinto

By notcheseditor August 25, 2015 Author Interviews 0 comments

Interview by Pat Omoregie Saheed Aderinto’s When Sex Threatened the State: Illicit Sexuality, Nationalism, and Politics in Colonial Nigeria, 1900-1958 (Illinois, 2015), explores tensions in colonial Nigeria through the lens of a struggle over how to control and regulate prostitution. Aderinto argues that the British perceived prostitution as evidence of […]

Where are animals in the history of sexuality?

By Gabriel Rosenberg September 2, 2014 History of Sexuality 0 comments

Gabriel N. Rosenberg What is the place of animals in the history of sexuality? In June, at a campaign stop, Mississippi Senator Thad Cochran testified about his rural roots by reminiscing on how, in his youth, he did “all kinds of indecent things to animals.” The phrase drew knowing laughs from […]

Beards, Real Men, and Poseurs: male sexuality and fashion since around 1900

By Julia Laite April 8, 2014 History of Sexuality 7 comments

Julia Laite A recent post by regular blogger Nikki Daniels (‘An open letter to bearded hipsters’) that has made the usual rounds of facebook and twitter has got me thinking about how male fashion has long been central to the way we define what it means to be a ‘real’ man. The blogger wrote about […]

The Censorship of Female Pleasure: Cleland, Charlie Countryman, Cunnilingus

By Katelyn Dykerman March 20, 2014 Early Modern 0 comments

Katelyn Dykstra Dykerman What is it about a woman enjoying herself that is so threatening? It is not an idle question. Female pleasure, and female sexuality, seem to be cause for confusion, as well as a particular kind of hand-wringing, censor-inducing, violence-spurring anxiety. A few months ago, Evan Rachel Wood took to twitter […]