Stories
- Article
Female masturbation and the perils of pleasure
Dr Kate Lister exposes the brutal 19th-century ‘cures’ for women who indulged in masturbation.
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The prostitute whose pox inspired feminists
Fitzrovia, 1875. A woman recorded only as A.G. enters hospital and is diagnosed with syphilis.
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Public health campaigns and the ‘threat’ of disability
By continuing to represent disability as the feared outcome of disease, public health campaigns help to perpetuate prejudice against disabled people.
- Book extract
Naked, not nude
Classicist Caroline Vout argues that it’s time to take the dust covers off the Ancient Greeks and Romans, and to encounter their bodies not nude, but naked.
Catalogue
- Books
Promiscuity / by Michael Schofield.
Schofield, Michael, 1919-2014.Date: 1976- Archives and manuscripts
'Psychological aspects of promiscuity'
Date: c.1945Reference: PP/HVD/E/1/1/3Part of: Dicks, Henry- Books
PILL FOR PROMISCUITY: GAY SEX IN AN AGE OF PHARMACEUTICALS
Date: 2023- Pictures
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Lipstick kiss marks scattered on a light background; representing promiscuity as a risk-factor for AIDS. Colour lithograph after V. Kozlík, 1989.
Kozlík, Vladimír, 1953-Date: 1989Reference: 665851i- Pictures
Fragments of many women's faces which form one face; representing promiscuity as a factor in the spread of AIDS. Colour lithograph after Yu. Bokser, 1989.
Bokser, Yu.Date: 1989Reference: 541336i