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NOTCHES Blog @notchesblog.bsky.social · 13d

Looking at recordings of Dr Joan Malleson’s sexual counselling sessions, Rusterholz delves into 1950s ideas around heterosexuality, marriage, and pleasure.

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‘This isn’t so boring if you can get an outside climax’: Dr Joan Malleson and sexual counselling in Britain

Archival recordings of sexual counselling sessions illuminate how sexual problems might be understood by both practitioners and patients.

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NOTCHES Blog @notchesblog.bsky.social · 13d

Today’s #ThrowbackThursday, we return to the bedroom...or, rather, the counselling couch, with ‘This isn’t so boring if you can get an outside climax’: Dr Joan Malleson and sexual counselling in Britain by Caroline Rusterholz.

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NOTCHES Blog @notchesblog.bsky.social · 22d

Rather than treating these values as mutually exclusive, this new article highlights the everyday negotiations, ethical dilemmas, and creative strategies that emerge as individuals navigate between communal ideals and personal desires.

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#QueerHistory #LGBTQIA

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(re)marks on the history of sexuality

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NOTCHES Blog @notchesblog.bsky.social · 22d

What holds a polygamous family together? What pulls it apart? Drawing on six years of research, Dr. Jankowiak explores how Mormon fundamentalist communities navigate the tension between their ideal of harmonious plural love and the persistent human impulse toward dyadic emotional bonds.

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NOTCHES Blog @notchesblog.bsky.social · 22d

New on NOTCHES!

Illicit Monogamy: Inside a Fundamentalist Mormon Community by William Jankowiak

Read the exclusive author interview here: wp.me/p6JJ6S-4PT

#LGBTQHistory #HistoryOfSexuality #FamilyStudies #ReligiousHistory #Polyamory #Polyamorous #Mormon

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NOTCHES Blog @notchesblog.bsky.social · 27d

Makeup also features in drag histories, and, whilst not explicitly on makeup, it would be a shame not to mention that on Tuesday we released our interview with Jacob Bloomfield on his book, Drag: A British History. Read it here: wp.me/p6JJ6S-4PW

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NOTCHES Blog @notchesblog.bsky.social · 27d

Looking at a statuette of Ur-Nanshe, Morgan writes that it ‘has a soft face, a suggestion of eye make-up, is clean-shaven, has long hair and a suggestion of breasts. Although Ur-Nanshe is a male name, the statuette has variously been gendered as female and a eunuch as well’.

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NOTCHES Blog @notchesblog.bsky.social · 27d

Makeup can also form part of how gender is read. For instance, eye makeup gets a very brief mention in Evidence for Trans Lives in Sumer by Cheryl Morgan. Read it here: wp.me/p6JJ6S-2TW

#genderhistory #histsex #historyofsexuality

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NOTCHES Blog @notchesblog.bsky.social · 27d

Brogan describes these fashions reconstituted: ‘with charity-shop platform shoes and hippy handbags, along with stripey tights, two or three different coloured wigs, and garish asymmetric make-up’

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NOTCHES Blog @notchesblog.bsky.social · 27d

In the case of the nightclub’s doorman, Marc Vaultier, wearing Leigh Bowery’s designs anew was in part achieved through makeup.

Read the full article, The Two Faces of Taboo, here: wp.me/p6JJ6S-4Mh

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NOTCHES Blog @notchesblog.bsky.social · 27d

Makeup can be explored in relation to fashion and fashionability. The fascinating work of NOTCHES’ own Stephen Brogan on Leigh Bowery, Marc Vaultier, and nightclub Taboo highlights the importance of image within London’s nightlife.

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NOTCHES Blog @notchesblog.bsky.social · 27d

Yesterday was #InternationalMakeupDay and so what better way to spend #ThrowbackThursday than to spotlight some of the histories that are intertwined with makeup.

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NOTCHES Blog @notchesblog.bsky.social · 29d

However, in spite of the rich history Bloomfield’s work uncovers, it is an area that has been under-explored, even for the most well-known of stars like La Rue. In the face of this, Bloomfield emphasises ‘I very much want my work to spark conversation and not be the final word on anything.’

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NOTCHES Blog @notchesblog.bsky.social · 29d

Bloomfield’s book was only the starting point, however, and with the interview ranging from Bloomfield’s work on Boulton and Park to Old Mother Riley to Danny La Rue and now to Little Richard, it is almost fit to burst.

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NOTCHES Blog @notchesblog.bsky.social · 29d

In today’s new NOTCHES post, we interviewed Jacob Bloomfield on his monograph, Drag: A British History.

Read the full interview here: wp.me/p6JJ6S-4PW

#historyofsexuality #histsex #genderhistory

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Drag: A British History

A fresh history of British drag performance in all its ubiquity, glamour, fun, and tawdriness.

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NOTCHES Blog @notchesblog.bsky.social · 29d

To add a little excitement to your Tuesday, today on NOTCHES we bring you a new interview with Jacob Bloomfield on his book, Drag: A British History.

We will delve into the article as the day goes on, but for now
read it here: wp.me/p6JJ6S-4PW

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NOTCHES Blog @notchesblog.bsky.social · Sep 2

Far from being only about sex, these encounters highlight how queer practices disrupted territorialised space while also revealing the limits of intimacy in a troubled society.

#LGBTQHistory #OralHistory #TheTroubles #QueerHistory #SexualityAndSpace #IrishStudies #NorthernIreland #Cruising

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NOTCHES Blog @notchesblog.bsky.social · Sep 2

Herron explores how queer men carved out fleeting moments of intimacy and sociality across sectarian divides. In a city marked by violence and segregation, cruising subverted expectations of masculinity and created covert networks that blurred boundaries of class, religion, and sexuality.

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NOTCHES Blog @notchesblog.bsky.social · Sep 2

New on NOTCHES 🚻✨

“Dolled up to the nines to go to a flippin' public toilet!”: Cruising in Belfast During the Troubles by Niall Herron. How did queer cruising unfold during the Troubles, and what can it teach us about sexuality, space, and conflict?

Read the full feature here: wp.me/p6JJ6S-4Pq

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NOTCHES Blog @notchesblog.bsky.social · Aug 28

Bringing into question how sex is archived, how we think about sex, and how to disrupt sex surveys, you can find the article here: wp.me/p6JJ6S-1RW

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Would you mind if Neil Bartlett asked you a few personal questions about sex?

The Wellcome Collection’s ‘Institute of Sexology’ was the first major event of its kind in the UK.

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NOTCHES Blog @notchesblog.bsky.social · Aug 28

For today’s #ThrowbackThursday, we look back on Ania Ostrowska’s article on artist Neil Bartlett and his exhibition with The Institute of Sexology at the @wellcomecollection.bsky.social back in 2014-5.

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NOTCHES Blog @notchesblog.bsky.social · Aug 28

Would you mind if Neil Bartlett asked you a few personal questions about sex?

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#histsex #historyofsexuality #sexology

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NOTCHES Blog @notchesblog.bsky.social · Aug 26

This history’s implications extend further: with links to trans history, a geographical significance that extended beyond Germany, and a disruption of the Foucauldian shift, this is an important intervention in the history of queer identities.

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NOTCHES Blog @notchesblog.bsky.social · Aug 26

Centred on the subjective experience of men found in autobiographical accounts, Pretsell explains how urning was the dominant same-sex sexual identity within Germany before terms such as homosexual and gay. 

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NOTCHES Blog @notchesblog.bsky.social · Aug 26

In case you haven’t seen it, today we posted our fascinating interview with Douglas Pretsell on Urning: Queer Identity in the German Nineteenth Century.

Read the full interview here: wp.me/p6JJ6S-4Px

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#historyofsexuality #Germanhistory

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