By Scott McLemee
Last week, Intellectual Affairs gave the recent cable TV miniseries “Sex: The Revolution” a nod of recognition, however qualified, for its possible educational value. The idea that sex has a history is not, as such, self-evident. The series covers the changes in attitudes and norms between roughly 1950 and 1990 through interviews and [...]
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New York Public Library Acquires Gay Rights Archive
Posted in gay, history, libraries, new york on May 1st, 2007
A major archive of papers relating to the early gay-rights movement in America has been donated to the New York Public Library’s Manuscripts and Archives Division. The Barbara Gittings and Kay Tobin Lahusen Gay History Papers and Photographs consist of letters, photographs, handbills, manuscripts, publications, and ephemera accumulated over nearly 50 years by the late [...]
Sex, Reality, and the State (Via Clasically Liberal)
Posted in academia, history, pornography on Mar 28th, 2007
From the blog Classically Liberal:
Below is an interesting press release from the University of Leeds. A new Ph.D. thesis by Jenny Skipp “examined, catalogued and categorised every known erotic text in eighteenth-century Britain.” Ms. Skipp was rather surprised to discover how vast a quantity of pornography was circulating in England at that time.
Not only was [...]
Japan’s prime minister denies responsibility for wartime brothels (IHT)
Posted in comfort women, history, japan on Mar 2nd, 2007
By Norimitsu OnishiFriday, March 2, 2007
TOKYO: A denial by Prime Minister Shinzo Abe that the Japanese military had forced foreign women into sexual slavery during World War II is a clear sign that the government is preparing to reject a 1993 government statement that acknowledged the military’s role in setting up brothels and forcing, either [...]
Breasts!
Posted in breasts, dita von teese, history on Feb 12th, 2007
If my last post was a bit too heavy, you may enjoy this one more. Radar Online has a fun little story on the history of breasts and their coverings over the last century. It includes pictures.
You’re welcome.
(those are Dita’s, in case you’re wondering)
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Justice for Comfort Women
Posted in Korea, WWII, comfort women, history, japan, sex on Feb 12th, 2007
Representative Mike Honda (D-CA) has introduced what is now *House Resolution 121*, which expresses the sense of the House of Representatives of the United States that the Government of Japan should formally acknowledge and accept responsibility for it’s sexual enslavement of “comfort women” during it’s occupation of Asia in the first half of the 20th [...]