Stories
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A history of sex for sale
Kate Lister’s cultural history of the sex trade puts sex workers centre stage. In this extract, she argues why the way we write, think and talk about sex work matters.
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Sex in graphic novels
Sex and sexuality have long been explored in the history of the graphic novel.
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Dial ‘S’ for sex
In pre-internet days, phone boxes became a patchwork of ‘tart cards’ offering sexual services. Find out about the clandestine world they hint at.
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Inhaling happiness and gasping for a high
The rapid, short-lived high we get from whippets, reefers and vapes can be accompanied by long-term health consequences. The search is on for safer ways to get stoned.
Catalogue
- Books
Conceiving sexuality : approaches to sex research in a postmodern world / edited by Richard G. Parker and John H. Gagnon.
Date: 1995- Books
The shape of sex : nonbinary gender from Genesis to the Renaissance / Leah DeVun.
DeVun, LeahDate: [2021]- Videos
The sex researchers. Part 2.
Date: 2011- Audio
British Records Association Sixty-First Annual Conference. Session 2 & 3 / 29th & 30th November 1993.
British Records Association. Conference 1993 : The Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine)Date: 1993- Videos
Sex change hospital. Part 6.
Date: 2007