Stories
- In pictures
Sexy (medieval) times
Penis badges, the mysterious Office of the Night, and sneezing as a form of contraception – enter the surprising world of medieval sex. It wasn’t cold baths and self-denial for everyone, as Katherine Harvey explains.
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Surviving as an asexual person in a heteronormative world
Experiencing no sexual attraction led Seleena Laverne Daye to feel she was somehow failing as an adult. But she found a way to claim her identity and to thrive.
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Can our sexual desires be transformed?
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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Getting around the rules of sex education
What should we and shouldn’t we teach our teens about sex, inside and outside of the classroom?
Catalogue
- Books
Sex and the gender revolution. Volume one, Heterosexuality and the third gender in Enlightenment London / Randolph Trumbach.
Trumbach, Randolph.Date: 1998- Books
Love, heterosexuality, and society / Paul Johnson.
Johnson, Paul (Paul James)Date: 2005- Archives and manuscripts
Social aspects of heterosexuality
Date: Mid-late 20th centuryReference: PP/RYC/E.9/1/25Part of: Rycroft, Dr Charles (1914-1998)- Books
Theorising heterosexuality : telling it straight / edited by Diane Richardson.
Date: 1996- Books
The invention of heterosexuality / Jonathan Ned Katz ; with a new preface ; afterword by Lisa Duggan.
Katz, Jonathan, 1938-Date: 2007