If you want to know more about the role that France's imperial aspirations played in the development of the pathologisation of wet dreams in the 19th century, do have a look! #histmed #HistoryOfSexuality #ColonialMedicine #FrenchHistory #Algeria #Orientalism #skystorians
December 4, 2025 at 11:05 AM
If you want to know more about the role that France's imperial aspirations played in the development of the pathologisation of wet dreams in the 19th century, do have a look! #histmed #HistoryOfSexuality #ColonialMedicine #FrenchHistory #Algeria #Orientalism #skystorians
Our Social Media Manager, Georgia, is moving on from NOTCHES. So, in her final #ThrowbackThursday post, she shares with us some of her favourite NOTCHES articles of all time:
#histsex #historyofsexuality #queerhistory
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#histsex #historyofsexuality #queerhistory
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November 6, 2025 at 6:34 PM
Our Social Media Manager, Georgia, is moving on from NOTCHES. So, in her final #ThrowbackThursday post, she shares with us some of her favourite NOTCHES articles of all time:
#histsex #historyofsexuality #queerhistory
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#histsex #historyofsexuality #queerhistory
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Out today, we have Two More Weeks: The Brutality Behind Brazil’s Reproductive Politics by Isabela de Oliveira Dornelas.
Read the full article here: wp.me/p6JJ6S-4Oy
CW: abortion, death in childbirth, sexual violence
#histsex #historyofsexuality #historyofmedicine #historyofscience
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Read the full article here: wp.me/p6JJ6S-4Oy
CW: abortion, death in childbirth, sexual violence
#histsex #historyofsexuality #historyofmedicine #historyofscience
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Two More Weeks: The Brutality Behind Brazil’s Reproductive Politics
Cesarean or sin: the politics of saving the fetus in Brazil.
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October 28, 2025 at 4:04 PM
Out today, we have Two More Weeks: The Brutality Behind Brazil’s Reproductive Politics by Isabela de Oliveira Dornelas.
Read the full article here: wp.me/p6JJ6S-4Oy
CW: abortion, death in childbirth, sexual violence
#histsex #historyofsexuality #historyofmedicine #historyofscience
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Read the full article here: wp.me/p6JJ6S-4Oy
CW: abortion, death in childbirth, sexual violence
#histsex #historyofsexuality #historyofmedicine #historyofscience
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New post out now!
Two More Weeks: The Brutality Behind Brazil’s Reproductive Politics by Isabela de Oliveira Dornelas.
Read the full article here: wp.me/p6JJ6S-4Oy
#histsex #historyofsexuality
Two More Weeks: The Brutality Behind Brazil’s Reproductive Politics by Isabela de Oliveira Dornelas.
Read the full article here: wp.me/p6JJ6S-4Oy
#histsex #historyofsexuality
Two More Weeks: The Brutality Behind Brazil’s Reproductive Politics
Cesarean or sin: the politics of saving the fetus in Brazil.
wp.me
October 28, 2025 at 9:20 AM
New post out now!
Two More Weeks: The Brutality Behind Brazil’s Reproductive Politics by Isabela de Oliveira Dornelas.
Read the full article here: wp.me/p6JJ6S-4Oy
#histsex #historyofsexuality
Two More Weeks: The Brutality Behind Brazil’s Reproductive Politics by Isabela de Oliveira Dornelas.
Read the full article here: wp.me/p6JJ6S-4Oy
#histsex #historyofsexuality
Very happy with this lovely article about our exhibition (on the medical history of machines and treatments against wet dreams) at the "Centre Maurice Chalumeau en sciences des sexualités" in Geneva!
360.ch/culture/savo...
🗃️ #histmed #HistoryOfSexuality #skystorians
360.ch/culture/savo...
🗃️ #histmed #HistoryOfSexuality #skystorians
October 24, 2025 at 8:39 AM
Very happy with this lovely article about our exhibition (on the medical history of machines and treatments against wet dreams) at the "Centre Maurice Chalumeau en sciences des sexualités" in Geneva!
360.ch/culture/savo...
🗃️ #histmed #HistoryOfSexuality #skystorians
360.ch/culture/savo...
🗃️ #histmed #HistoryOfSexuality #skystorians
Back in 2021, we posted an extract from the introduction of Joanna Bourke’s book, Loving Animals: On Bestiality, Zoophilia, and Post-Human Love, published by @reaktionbooks.bsky.social.
Find it here: wp.me/p6JJ6S-4c1
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#histsex #historyofsexuality
Find it here: wp.me/p6JJ6S-4c1
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#histsex #historyofsexuality
Loving Animals: On Bestiality, Zoophilia, and Post-Human Love
How have commentators talked about sex with animals and what meanings have been attached to ‘bestiality’ or ‘zoophilia’?
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October 23, 2025 at 5:01 PM
Back in 2021, we posted an extract from the introduction of Joanna Bourke’s book, Loving Animals: On Bestiality, Zoophilia, and Post-Human Love, published by @reaktionbooks.bsky.social.
Find it here: wp.me/p6JJ6S-4c1
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#histsex #historyofsexuality
Find it here: wp.me/p6JJ6S-4c1
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#histsex #historyofsexuality
If you are around, do come to the opening of our exhibition at the Maurice Chalumeau Centre for Sexual Sciences (in Geneva) on the 21st of October! We look forward to seeing you there!
🗃️ #histmed #HistoryOfSexuality #SwissHistory #skystorians
🗃️ #histmed #HistoryOfSexuality #SwissHistory #skystorians
If anybody is in Geneva in the week of the 20th of October: Please come on Tuesday, the 21st of October 2025 (5:00pm), to the opening of the exhibition “Masculinity in Question: Remedies and Devices against Nocturnal Emissions (18th to 21st Centuries)” at the CMCSS, Campus Batelle, Bâtiment A!
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October 6, 2025 at 12:09 PM
If you are around, do come to the opening of our exhibition at the Maurice Chalumeau Centre for Sexual Sciences (in Geneva) on the 21st of October! We look forward to seeing you there!
🗃️ #histmed #HistoryOfSexuality #SwissHistory #skystorians
🗃️ #histmed #HistoryOfSexuality #SwissHistory #skystorians
For more information, see here: www.unige.ch/cmcss/actual...
#histmed #HistoryOfSexuality #skystorians #FrenchHistory #SwissHistory #Geneva
#histmed #HistoryOfSexuality #skystorians #FrenchHistory #SwissHistory #Geneva
La virilité en question - du 21 au 24 octobre 2025 - Centre Maurice Chalumeau en sciences des sexualités (CMCSS) - UNIGE
www.unige.ch
October 6, 2025 at 7:43 AM
For more information, see here: www.unige.ch/cmcss/actual...
#histmed #HistoryOfSexuality #skystorians #FrenchHistory #SwissHistory #Geneva
#histmed #HistoryOfSexuality #skystorians #FrenchHistory #SwissHistory #Geneva
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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#HistSex #HistoryofSexuality
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#HistSex #HistoryofSexuality
September 25, 2025 at 5:02 PM
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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#HistSex #HistoryofSexuality
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#HistSex #HistoryofSexuality
right-wing and other parts of the political spectrum in the East and West.
Sign up now to take part in person or virtually:
www.ghil.ac.uk/event...
#queerhistory #historyofsexuality #gender #genderhistory #germanhistory #historicalresearch #skystorians #historysky
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Sign up now to take part in person or virtually:
www.ghil.ac.uk/event...
#queerhistory #historyofsexuality #gender #genderhistory #germanhistory #historicalresearch #skystorians #historysky
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September 23, 2025 at 6:47 PM
right-wing and other parts of the political spectrum in the East and West.
Sign up now to take part in person or virtually:
www.ghil.ac.uk/event...
#queerhistory #historyofsexuality #gender #genderhistory #germanhistory #historicalresearch #skystorians #historysky
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Sign up now to take part in person or virtually:
www.ghil.ac.uk/event...
#queerhistory #historyofsexuality #gender #genderhistory #germanhistory #historicalresearch #skystorians #historysky
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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
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
September 16, 2025 at 12:52 PM
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
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
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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#genderhistory #histsex #historyofsexuality
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September 11, 2025 at 4:36 PM
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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#genderhistory #histsex #historyofsexuality
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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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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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September 9, 2025 at 2:46 PM
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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Read the full interview here: wp.me/p6JJ6S-4PW
#historyofsexuality #histsex #genderhistory
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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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#histsex #historyofsexuality #sexology
August 28, 2025 at 2:36 PM
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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#histsex #historyofsexuality #sexology
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
Read the full interview here: wp.me/p6JJ6S-4Px
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#historyofsexuality #Germanhistory
August 26, 2025 at 11:55 AM
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
Read the full interview here: wp.me/p6JJ6S-4Px
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#historyofsexuality #Germanhistory
Brand new NOTCHES post out now!
Read Urning: Queer Identity in the German Nineteenth Century by Douglas Pretsell here: wp.me/p6JJ6S-4Px
#historyofsexuality #Germanhistory #queerhistory
Read Urning: Queer Identity in the German Nineteenth Century by Douglas Pretsell here: wp.me/p6JJ6S-4Px
#historyofsexuality #Germanhistory #queerhistory
August 26, 2025 at 6:13 AM
Brand new NOTCHES post out now!
Read Urning: Queer Identity in the German Nineteenth Century by Douglas Pretsell here: wp.me/p6JJ6S-4Px
#historyofsexuality #Germanhistory #queerhistory
Read Urning: Queer Identity in the German Nineteenth Century by Douglas Pretsell here: wp.me/p6JJ6S-4Px
#historyofsexuality #Germanhistory #queerhistory
Today’s #ThrowbackThursday is the wonderful article, ‘The Stimulus of the Flesh’ and Margaret Singleton’s Broken Vow by Laura Wood.
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#medievalhistory #historyofsexuality
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#medievalhistory #historyofsexuality
August 14, 2025 at 10:38 PM
Today’s #ThrowbackThursday is the wonderful article, ‘The Stimulus of the Flesh’ and Margaret Singleton’s Broken Vow by Laura Wood.
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#medievalhistory #historyofsexuality
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#medievalhistory #historyofsexuality
#genderhistory #sexualviolence #interwarbritain #historyofpolicing #historyofsexuality
📷 West Midlands Police from West Midlands, United Kingdom, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
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📷 West Midlands Police from West Midlands, United Kingdom, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
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July 22, 2025 at 2:00 PM
#genderhistory #sexualviolence #interwarbritain #historyofpolicing #historyofsexuality
📷 West Midlands Police from West Midlands, United Kingdom, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
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📷 West Midlands Police from West Midlands, United Kingdom, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
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Ross’ work demonstrates the importance of homosexual men and female prostitutes in shaping the city of Paris.
Read our interview with Ross on Public City/Public Sex: Homosexuality, Prostitution, and Urban Culture in Nineteenth-Century Paris here: wp.me/p6JJ6S-3MQ
#histsex #historyofsexuality
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Read our interview with Ross on Public City/Public Sex: Homosexuality, Prostitution, and Urban Culture in Nineteenth-Century Paris here: wp.me/p6JJ6S-3MQ
#histsex #historyofsexuality
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Public City/Public Sex: Homosexuality, Prostitution, and Urban Culture Nineteenth-Century Paris
Women who sold sex and men who sought sex with other men shaped the emergence of modern Paris.
wp.me
July 15, 2025 at 8:23 AM
Ross’ work demonstrates the importance of homosexual men and female prostitutes in shaping the city of Paris.
Read our interview with Ross on Public City/Public Sex: Homosexuality, Prostitution, and Urban Culture in Nineteenth-Century Paris here: wp.me/p6JJ6S-3MQ
#histsex #historyofsexuality
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Read our interview with Ross on Public City/Public Sex: Homosexuality, Prostitution, and Urban Culture in Nineteenth-Century Paris here: wp.me/p6JJ6S-3MQ
#histsex #historyofsexuality
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Yesterday was #bastilleday, so we thought we’d delve into some of our old #Frenchhistory posts.
Post-revolutionary France saw much societal upheaval, particularly in the capital, as Andrew Israel Ross’ article outlines.
#le14juillet #fêtenationale #historyofsexuality
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Post-revolutionary France saw much societal upheaval, particularly in the capital, as Andrew Israel Ross’ article outlines.
#le14juillet #fêtenationale #historyofsexuality
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July 15, 2025 at 8:23 AM
Yesterday was #bastilleday, so we thought we’d delve into some of our old #Frenchhistory posts.
Post-revolutionary France saw much societal upheaval, particularly in the capital, as Andrew Israel Ross’ article outlines.
#le14juillet #fêtenationale #historyofsexuality
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Post-revolutionary France saw much societal upheaval, particularly in the capital, as Andrew Israel Ross’ article outlines.
#le14juillet #fêtenationale #historyofsexuality
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This article delves into many more aspects of this period of Germany’s queer past, but we will leave you with Foit’s pertinent assertion that ‘Our progress and our (queer) history is never linear’.
#queerhistory #historyofsexuality
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#queerhistory #historyofsexuality
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July 8, 2025 at 7:39 AM
This article delves into many more aspects of this period of Germany’s queer past, but we will leave you with Foit’s pertinent assertion that ‘Our progress and our (queer) history is never linear’.
#queerhistory #historyofsexuality
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#queerhistory #historyofsexuality
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The importance of terminology, changing definitions, and, in particular, dictionaries as ‘site[s] of contestation for trans self-determination,’ are central to “Information Pleases”: Dictionaries and Trans History by Joseph Gamble.
Read it here: wp.me/p6JJ6S-4IG
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Read it here: wp.me/p6JJ6S-4IG
#histsex #historyofsexuality 2/2
“Information Pleases”: Dictionaries and Trans History
Dictionaries—in their contested and flawed glory—can teach us much about the multiplicity of gendered and sexual possibilities of history.
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June 24, 2025 at 4:40 AM
The importance of terminology, changing definitions, and, in particular, dictionaries as ‘site[s] of contestation for trans self-determination,’ are central to “Information Pleases”: Dictionaries and Trans History by Joseph Gamble.
Read it here: wp.me/p6JJ6S-4IG
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Read it here: wp.me/p6JJ6S-4IG
#histsex #historyofsexuality 2/2
"Forbidden Desire in Early Modern Europe: Male–Male Sexual Relations, 1400–1750, Noel Malcolm, Oxford University Press.
Reviewed by Gary Ferguson
doi.org/10.1080/0361...
#QueerHistory #EarlyModernEurope #HistoryOfSexuality #PremodernStudies #LGBTQHistory #BookReview lgbtqreads.bsky.social
Reviewed by Gary Ferguson
doi.org/10.1080/0361...
#QueerHistory #EarlyModernEurope #HistoryOfSexuality #PremodernStudies #LGBTQHistory #BookReview lgbtqreads.bsky.social
June 16, 2025 at 10:03 AM
"Forbidden Desire in Early Modern Europe: Male–Male Sexual Relations, 1400–1750, Noel Malcolm, Oxford University Press.
Reviewed by Gary Ferguson
doi.org/10.1080/0361...
#QueerHistory #EarlyModernEurope #HistoryOfSexuality #PremodernStudies #LGBTQHistory #BookReview lgbtqreads.bsky.social
Reviewed by Gary Ferguson
doi.org/10.1080/0361...
#QueerHistory #EarlyModernEurope #HistoryOfSexuality #PremodernStudies #LGBTQHistory #BookReview lgbtqreads.bsky.social