This article provides a historical perspective on how both American and European
psychiatrists have conceptualized and categorized sexual deviance throughout the past 150 …

It'sa troubling phenomenon that many of us think of as a modern psychological epidemic, a
symptom of extreme emotional turmoil in young people, especially young women: cutting …

To understand why the concept of aesthetic sexuality is important, we must consider the
influence of the first volume of Foucault's seminal The History of Sexuality. Arguing against …

The notion of sexual sadism emerged from nineteenth-century alienist attempts to imagine
the pleasure of the torturer or mass killer. This was a time in which sexuality was mapped to …

Sex: how should we do it, when should we do it, and with whom? How should we talk about
and represent sex, what social institutions should regulate it, and what are other people …

Sexual crime, past and present, is rarely far from the headlines. How these crimes are
punished, policed and understood has changed considerably over the last century. From …

There is a growing interest in what psychoanalytic theory brings to studying and researching
music. Bringing together established scholars within the field, as well as emerging voices …

This book offers the first in-depth intellectual and cultural history of British subversive
propaganda during the Second World War. Focussing on the Political Warfare Executive …

This article analyzes the Weimar-era transvestite magazine Das 3. Geschlecht (1930–1932),
originally published by Friedrich Radszuweit, and assesses the affective and political …

This article critiques Frankfurt School philosophical claims that blame the eighteenth-century
philosophical Enlightenment, and the pornographic texts of the Marquis de Sade in …