Stories
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Befriending heavy breathers
Read the fascinating story behind the rare manual that helped volunteers on one of Britain’s first free telephone helplines to deal with masturbating callers.
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Nymphomania and hypersexuality in women and men
The history of nymphomania is closely bound with society's views on women and their sexuality.
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The indelible harm caused by conversion therapy
With first-hand evidence from two powerful testimonies, neurologist Jules Montague explores the destructive history of conversion therapy, a punitive treatment designed to ‘cure’ people of homosexuality.
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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.
Catalogue
- Books
Teaching America about sex : marriage guides and sex manuals from the late Victorians to Dr. Ruth / M.E. Melody and Linda M. Peterson.
Melody, Michael Edward.Date: [1999], ©1999- Books
Sex in the Yellow Emperor's basic questions : sex, longevity, and medicine in early China / Jessieca Leo.
Leo, Jessieca, 1953-Date: 2011- Books
Sex education in eighteenth century France / edited by Shane Agin.
Date: 2011- Books
A marriage manual : a practical guide-book to sex and marriage, by Hannah M. Stone and Abraham Stone.
Stone, Hannah M. (Hannah Mayer), 1894-1941.Date: 1970- Books
Femina : a manual of sex hygiene / Eric J. Trimmer.
Trimmer, Eric J.Date: 1966