History of sexuality

'a History of Sexuality page any social historian would do well to visit.'

Netsurfer Digest Volume 05, Issue 29, September 14, 1999

'given the dignity of scholarship to a very delicate and difficult subject'

The Lancet on Havelock Ellis and his Studies in the Psychology of Sex, 1910.

HISTSEX:
An e-mail discussion list for historians of sexuality. 1999-2004

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The Condom Page Since I had several private enquiries about how to make sheepgut condoms, after mentioning in an e-list posting that I had this information, I thought this might be of interest. Plus some reading suggestions on condom history and other condom-related items, including a few pictures. And an article on the history of the condom	The clitoris: historical myths and facts, with article on the clitoris in history
	Literary abortion: mentions of abortion in literary texts

Victorian sex factoids: some much reiterated canards

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'The Other in the Mirror: Sex, Victorians and Historians' a piece in progress about problems and stereotypes in thinking about Victorian sexuality now with expanded and updated bibliography	'The Great Scourge': Syphilis as a medical problem and moral metaphor, 1880-1916 A paper written for and given at a Courtauld Institute Symposium, 23 May 1998: Le Grand Mort. Twentieth Century Bodies, Sexuality, Death and Degeneracy, and unlikely to appear anywhere in exactly this form.
Gender and Archives a rather longer version of my presentation at the Genders and Archives workshop at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, 21 January 2005