Stories
- Article
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.
- Article
Surviving as an asexual person in a heteronormative world
Experiencing no sexual attraction led Seleena Laverne Daye to feel she was somehow failing as an adult. But she found a way to claim her identity and to thrive.
- Book extract
My important, ridiculous nose
The nose is a much-maligned appendage, but it’s a powerful organ capable of invoking powerful emotions from past memories and sexual attraction.
- Article
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.
Catalogue
- Books
Childhood association, sexual attraction, and fertility in Taiwan / Arthur P. Wolf.
Wolf, Arthur P., 1932-Date: 1976- Videos
Secrets of the sexes. Part 2, Attraction.
Date: 2005- Books
- Online
Mapping your sexuality : from sexual orientation to sexual configurations theory / words: Alex Iantaffi & Meg-John Barker; ideas: Sari van Anders ; illustrations: Julia Scheele.
Iantaffi, AlexDate: [2018]- Books
How sexual desire works : the enigmatic urge / Frederick Toates, the Open University, United Kingdom.
Toates, F. M. (Frederick M.)Date: [2014]- Books
Controlling sex in captivity : POWs and sexual desire in the United States during the Second World War / Matthias Reiss.
Reiss, Matthias, 1968-Date: 2018