Tag: rural 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 […]

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 […]