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Sexology

SOURCE: Observer
10/19/2022

We Discovered the Archive of a Sex Education Academy; Is its Value for Auction or Research?

by Allison Miller

What happened when a historian and an archivist-in-training tracked down the much-rumored but long unseen archives of a defunct institute for the study of sexuality?

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).