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Can our sexual desires be transformed?
| Charlie WilliamsSarah MarksDaniel Pick
In the 1950s, many psychiatrists thought that homosexuality could be reformed. One found that it couldn’t – and his discoveries led to a change in the law.
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Nymphomania and hypersexuality in women and men
| Taryn Cain
The history of nymphomania is closely bound with society's views on women and their sexuality.
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The prostitute whose pox inspired feminists
| Anna Faherty
Fitzrovia, 1875. A woman recorded only as A.G. enters hospital and is diagnosed with syphilis.
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Booze and bad behaviour
| Stevyn Colgan
Our love of alcohol is like a party that’s lasted nine centuries. But there are signs that the demon drink is losing its appeal.