Stories
- Article
Acid and the sexual psychonauts
How LSD fuelled one woman’s journey of sexual self-discovery in the late 1950s.
- In pictures
A brief history of contraception
From douches to diaphragms, and condoms to caps, discover the wide range of contraception methods people have used over the centuries.
- Book extract
The history of brainwashing
Is it possible to control what other people think? In this abridged extract from his book ‘Brainwashed’, psychoanalyst and historian Daniel Pick offers us a new history of thought control.
- Book extract
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.
Catalogue
- Books
Sexuality and psychoanalysis : philosophical criticisms / edited by Jens De Vleminck and Eran Dorfman.
Date: 2010- Journals
- Online
Journal of the history of sexuality
Date: ©1990-- Books
Women and families : an oral history, 1940-1970 / Elizabeth Roberts.
Roberts, Elizabeth, 1936-Date: 1995- Books
Genderqueer and non-binary genders / Christina Richards, Walter Pierre Bouman, Meg-John Barker, editors.
Date: [2017]- Books
Indian sex life : sexuality and the colonial origins of modern social thought / Durba Mitra.
Mitra, DurbaDate: [2020]