history of sexuality

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• SOURCE: The Atlantic
  4/26/2021
  

  The Tyranny of the Female-Orgasm Industrial Complex

  The writer's personal experiences, in light of a historical review of ideas about female sexuality, suggests that more knowledge has reinforced the social control of women by making pleasure obligatory rather than prohibited (Note: contains frank, explicit and extensive discussions of sexual activity).

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• SOURCE: CNN
  2/12/2021
  

  The Fantasy that Changed Female Friendship Forever

  by Nicole Hemmer

  If the 1980s phenomenon of the male Chippendales show benefitted women's empowerment, it was not (only) by making men the objects of lust, but by normalizing rituals of female friendship. 

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• SOURCE: Public Seminar
  2/10/2021
  

  Collars, Cuffs, and History Collaborations

  Nicole Hemmer, Natalia Mehlman Petrzela and Neil J. Young are the producers of the "Past/Present" podcast. Their new project "Welcome to Your Fantasy" looks at feminism and the sexual revolution through the cultural phenomenon of the Chippendales Dancers. Claire Potter interviews the trio about it.

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  2/10/2021
  

  Larry Flynt, Who Built a Porn Empire With Hustler, Dies at 78

  "Mr. Flynt’s interpretation was simpler. 'If the First Amendment will protect a scumbag like me,' he said, 'then it will protect all of you. Because I’m the worst'."

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• SOURCE: Perspectives on History
  12/15/2020
  

  Working With Death: The Experience of Feeling in the Archive

  by Ruth Lawlor

  A researcher of sexual assault against women by American troops in World War II confronted the problem that the archive captures only a traumatic event and leaves the human being affected in the shadows. 

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• SOURCE: The New York Times
  6/14/2020
  

  The Brilliant Astronomer Who Devised New Tactics to Fight Anti-Gay Bias

  LGBTQ historian George Chauncey reviews Eric Cervini's biography of scientist Franklin Kameny, "The Deviant's War: The Homosexual vs. the United States of America."