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  • Home
  • About
  • Articles
    • Sex History
    • Sex Worker Voices
    • LGBTQ History
    • Sex Workers Timeline
    • Sex Talk
    • Whore Law of Yore: How New South Wales decriminalised sex work 1979-1995 by Eurydice Aroney
    • Timeline of British Law and Sex Work
  • Kate’s Blog
  • Vintage Erotica
    • Parisian Sex Workers 1930s
    • Erotic Literature
    • Erotic Art
    • 1800s
    • 1900-1950
    • 1950-2000
    • History of Burlesque
    • Delta of Venus Archives
  • Sex Worker Rights
  • Word Of The Day
  • Friends and Allies
  • Historical Hotties
  • Recommended Reading
  • Quizzes

Sex History Contents

  • 'A Unique Sexual Ritual at The House of Francis' by Jake Tringali
  • Interview with the Dr Victoria Hartmaan, the Director of the Las Vegas Erotic Heritage Museum
  • 'The Fair Tea-Maker of Edgware Road: the Life of Lady Emma Hamilton' by Rebecca Hasenauer
  • Interview with Robert Stewart, the Archivist of Delta of Venus
  • ‘British Institution’ or ‘British Scandal’: Spouse-Selling in Victorian Britain by Lauren Padgett
  • 'The Woman Behind the Tea-table' by Jan Szpilka
  • 'Georgina Cavendish, an Amazing Woman' by Kyra Cornelius Kramer
  • 'A Dying Syphilization: Syphilis, The Scourge of the Victorian Sex Worker' by Therese Oneill
  • 'Determinedly Dangerous Women' by Lucy A Smyth
  • In Bed with the Sun King by Aurora von Goeth
  • Disinfectant, Douching and Daintiness: How Clean is your Vagina? by Emma Rees
  • Reflections on the Male Nude by @exposing40
  • ‘Unhallowed Enjoyment’:Masturbation, Vice and Crime in G. W. M. Reynolds’ The Mysteries of London (1844-48) by Stephen Basdeo
  • "Sexuality, Imagination and Aristotle’s Masterpiece" by Sara Read
  • ‘Loose Amours’, or Love in the time of Plague by Rebecca Rideal
  • Katheryn Howard's Death: Slut Shaming  in the Tudor Court by Kyra Cornelius Kramer 
  • "Victorian Fat Shaming: Harsh Words on Weight from the Nineteenth Century" by Mimi Matthews
  • "Male Body, Female Brain: Inventing Masochism" by Jan Szpilka
  • "The Solitary Vice: Victorian Views on Masturbation" by Mimi Matthews
  • "Lady Hamilton’s Lover in Cardinal Wolsey’s Sarcophagus" by Kyra C Kramer
  • "Sympathy for the Pervert: Richard von Krafft-Ebing and the Benefit of Naming Pathologies" by Jan Szpilka
  • "The Bias Against Fanny Cornforth" by Stephanie Graham Pina 
  • "Early Tudor Regulations of the Sex Trade" by Andrew Bretz 
  • "Edgworth Bess: An Eighteenth-Century Sex Worker" By Stephen Basdeo
  • 'Lillie among the artists' by Catharine Arnold
  • 'All Manner of Wickedness and Debauchery: The Trial of Constantia James' by Catherine Curzon
  • "The History of the Word "Prostitute" by Rictor Norton
  • 'Nip Slip: a Topless History' by Sara Sheridan
  • 'Victorian Clitoridectomy' by Princess Honeybee
  • "The Victorian Period: Menstrual Madness in the Nineteenth Century" by Kate Lister
  • "Honolulu Harlots" By Maggie McNeil
  • 'Bringing Down the Flowers: Abortion in Eighteenth-Century Britain' by Kate Lister
  • 'Sex and the Workhouse: Resistance, Submission or Coercion?' by Lesley Hulonce
  • "Le Livre Sans Titre", An Illustrated Warning of the Deadly Perils of Self Abuse (1830) ​