Stories
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John Walter on ‘Alien Sex Club’
I’m a painter, but I make worlds.
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Sex and syphilis
Before antibiotics, syphilis unleashed centuries of misery, countered by desperate but largely useless remedies. With the spread of syphilis on the rise, it’s worth remembering what our forebears suffered.
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Being trans in the world of sex work
Unstable. Predatory. Risk takers. Dr Adrienne Macartney sheds stark light on the hostile and negative assumptions faced by trans sex workers.
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The shocking ‘treatment’ to make lesbians straight
Being a lesbian has never been a crime in the UK, but 50 years ago, some psychologists experimented with treatments to try to ‘cure’ women of their orientation. Find out what this involved.
Catalogue
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The medical adviser : a complete treatise on the formation, debility, and diseases of those organs peculiar in each sex, including spermatorrhoea, or seminal weakness, drawn up with a view to the treatment and cure of impotence, and the more effectual removal of the venereal disease, the result of thirty years' experience, with the latest discoveries / by William Watson.
Watson, William.Date: [1860?]
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Seminalia, or an enquiry into the symptoms, consequences, causes, signs, nature and treatment of seminal diseases, whether arising from abuse, excess or irregularity in either sex : including spermatorrhoea, stricture, impotence, seminal gleet, and intended to be a faithful and practical guide to all who in any way may be interested / by Joseph E. Ralph.
Ralph, Joseph (Joseph E.)Date: 1865
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Toothed Urethral ring for the treatment of masturbation