A sweeping survey of sexuality in Europe from the Greeks to the present, Desire: A History of
European Sexuality follows changing attitudes to two major concepts of sexual desire …

The definition of homology and its application to reproductive structures, external genitalia,
and the physiology of sexual pleasure has a tortuous history. While nowadays there is a …

This paper asks questions about the resilience of radical gynaecological surgeries, such as
hysterectomy and ovariectomy, from the moment of their widespread use in Western …

The study of aphrodisiacs is an overlooked area of global history which this article seeks to
remedy by considering how such substances were commercially traded and how medical …

From the very moment the concept of sexuality emerged in nineteenth-century European
medical and psychiatric thought, it became a topic of historicization. This historicization …

This article discusses the term erotology, which was applied to medieval Islamicate 'ilm al-
bah (the science of coitus), as well as other world traditions of sexual knowledge, by …

THIS ARTICLE ISA COMBINATION of historiographic theoretical revision and a close
reading of medical, philosophical, and theological texts referring to the genitalia between 50 …

The imposition of gender hierarchy has stigmatized and distorted knowledge about the
clitoris. In instances when educators and activists resist the status quo by acknowledging …

The article shows how Satyajit Ray's women resist the sexism that comes from colonialism
and reach back into a more sex-positive Indian heritage, particularly Chakras and Tantric …

A masturbação enquanto vivência sexual feminina não tem sido considerada,
permanecendo como um tema velado e encoberto para a maioria das pessoas. Entre o …