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NOTCHES title: NOTCHES – (re)marks on the history of sexuality
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Adam Zmith
Deep Sniff is about the history of a mysterious and smelly substance, covering how it has brought sexual pleasure to millions and played a role in gay rights and gay culture. The drug is popp...
Isabela De Oliveira Dornelas
Content Note: This post discusses abortion, death in childbirth, and sexual violence (including child sexual abuse).
In complicated childbirth scenarios, when the life of the pregnant person and the fetus are in conflict, therapeutic abortion has historically been considered the last resort. But in Brazil, s...
William Jankowiak
American history is filled with novel attempts to embrace, ignore, deny and re-image the proper relationship between sex and love. In spite of optimistic expectations and enthusiastic hopes, research has shown that polyamour arrangements and plural love communes are inherently fragile, unstable, and seldom long lasting. In my recent b...
Jacob Bloomfield
Drag: A British History illuminates how drag performance has endured as a central and cherished part of British popular culture despite the controversy the art form sometimes aroused. Drag ...
Niall Herron
Does gay public sex help end violent conflict? Perhaps, or at least it makes for a good start. Men cruising for sex in the context of a deeply divided and deeply homophobic society offers an alternative way of thinking about public space and the identities of queer people. The history of cruising in Belfast, a city notorious for its sectar...
