Stories
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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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Drawing the human animal
We might try to deny our animal instincts, but this series of extraordinary 17th-century drawings suggests they are only too apparent.
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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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It’s getting mighty crowded
Mid-20th-century population-density research on mice produced a whiskered apocalypse, predicted to become the fate of humans too. But perhaps a more compassionate approach could fend this off.
Catalogue
- Archives and manuscripts
Boursier, Laurent François (1679-1749), Jansenist theologian
Boursier, Laurent François, 1679-1749.Date: late 17th century - early 18th centuryReference: MS.6069- Books
Ambiguous gender in early modern Spain and Portugal : inquisitors, doctors and the transgression of gender norms / by François Soyer.
Soyer, FrançoisDate: 2012