Today’s #ThrowbackThursday, we return to the bedroom...or, rather, the counselling couch, with ‘This isn’t so boring if you can get an outside climax’: Dr Joan Malleson and sexual counselling in Britain by Caroline Rusterholz. 1/2 #HistSex #HistoryofSexuality

New on NOTCHES! Illicit Monogamy: Inside a Fundamentalist Mormon Community by William Jankowiak Read the exclusive author interview here: wp.me/p6JJ6S-4PT #LGBTQHistory #HistoryOfSexuality #FamilyStudies #ReligiousHistory #Polyamory #Polyamorous #Mormon

Yesterday was #InternationalMakeupDay and so what better way to spend #ThrowbackThursday than to spotlight some of the histories that are intertwined with makeup. 1/7

In today’s new NOTCHES post, we interviewed Jacob Bloomfield on his monograph, Drag: A British History. Read the full interview here: wp.me/p6JJ6S-4PW #historyofsexuality #histsex #genderhistory 1/3

To add a little excitement to your Tuesday, today on NOTCHES we bring you a new interview with Jacob Bloomfield on his book, Drag: A British History. We will delve into the article as the day goes on, but for now read it here: wp.me/p6JJ6S-4PW #histsex

New on NOTCHES 🚻✨ “Dolled up to the nines to go to a flippin' public toilet!”: Cruising in Belfast During the Troubles by Niall Herron. How did queer cruising unfold during the Troubles, and what can it teach us about sexuality, space, and conflict? Read the full feature here: wp.me/p6JJ6S-4Pq

Would you mind if Neil Bartlett asked you a few personal questions about sex? 1/3 #histsex #historyofsexuality #sexology

In case you haven’t seen it, today we posted our fascinating interview with Douglas Pretsell on Urning: Queer Identity in the German Nineteenth Century. Read the full interview here: wp.me/p6JJ6S-4Px 1/3 #historyofsexuality #Germanhistory

Brand new NOTCHES post out now! Read Urning: Queer Identity in the German Nineteenth Century by Douglas Pretsell here: wp.me/p6JJ6S-4Px #historyofsexuality #Germanhistory #queerhistory

Today lets #ThrowbackThursday to the article Making Histories of Bolivian Sexual and Gender Diversity Legible in the Twenty-First Century by Nell Haynes and David Aruquipa Pérez. Link: wp.me/p6JJ6S-397 #LGBTHistory #LGBTQ #QueerHistory

Today’s #ThrowbackThursday is the wonderful article, ‘The Stimulus of the Flesh’ and Margaret Singleton’s Broken Vow by Laura Wood. 1/3 #medievalhistory #historyofsexuality

In her 2016 article The Romantic Concept of Psychological Androgyny, Victoria Russell revisits the radical 18th/19th century idea of psychological androgyny. That is, the belief that the human mind is naturally unsexed and fluid. Link: wp.me/p6JJ6S-1UY #ThrowbackThursday #Androgyny #Romanticism

Who wants reverence when we can have ribaldry? In our latest article, the Sex Lives of Historic Houses, Joshua Adair examines Beauport, the Sleeper-McCann House, as a case study in how historic house museums can evoke queer desire without sacrificing joy, sensuality, or style. Link wp.me/p6JJ6S-4Pc

Love reading? Then you’ll adore today’s pick for our #ThrowbackThursday, our interview with Christine Varnado on her book The Shapes of Fancy: Reading for Queer Desire in Early Modern Literature. Read it here: wp.me/p6JJ6S-4de #literature #earlymodern #queerhistory

#ThrowbackThursday Victorian society developed a curious and complex fascination with the human hand. Josh Adair’s 2017 work “Disembodied Desire” explores how the hand became a potent symbol of erotic desire, social status, and personal identity in the late 19th century. Link: wp.me/p6JJ6S-2LJ

Yesterday was #bastilleday, so we thought we’d delve into some of our old #Frenchhistory posts. Post-revolutionary France saw much societal upheaval, particularly in the capital, as Andrew Israel Ross’ article outlines. #le14juillet #fêtenationale #historyofsexuality 1/7

Before #Playboy became a global brand and lightning rod in debates about sex, media, and morality, Hugh Hefner was just a college student with a flair for satire and an eye for disruption. Let’s revisit Nathan Tye’s 2017 article, the College Roots of Hugh Hefner and Playboy. #ThrowbackThursday

What can we Learn from Germany’s Early Queer History? by Mathias Foit challenges a number of assumptions about German queer history, from the broader historical narratives to the geographic spread of queer public life. Read today’s new article here: wp.me/p6JJ6S-4Hr #Germanhistory 1/6

Censorship by broadcasters is topical, and today’s #ThrowbackThursday post begins with the censoring of the word “syphilis” in a public broadcast, and from there delves into the history of public health campaigns to combat venereal diseases.

Happy Canada Day!🇨🇦 Lets turn our attention to the complex, often overlooked histories of queer activism in the western Canadian prairies with Valerie Korinek’s 2017 work, ‘After Stonewall’ and Gay and Lesbian Liberation in Western Canada. 📖 Link: wp.me/p6JJ6S-30q #CanadaDay #QueerHistory

Over the past two months, NOTCHES has proudly spotlighted Trans-centered histories, stories, and voices. As we culminate our #Pride2025 coverage, we affirm that Trans histories are not marginal, they are integral to broader histories of sexuality, identity, and resistance.🏳️‍⚧️ #TransHistory #Pride

Trans newsletter editor Billie Jean Jones responded to definitions of “transvestite” that suggested clothing had a sex as follows: “If I leave my male clothes in contact with my female clothes, will I eventually have baby clothes? If not, then my clothing has no sex.” #transhistory 1/2

In “The Best Fighters of Each Other’s Oppressions: Trans and Non-Trans Solidarity in Lesbian Communities,” Ocean Ouillette revisits a pivotal moment in queer history: the 1994 Michigan Womyn’s Music Festival. Link: wp.me/p6JJ6S-4vN #QueerHistory #TransHistory #LesbianHistory #PrideMonth 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈

This #ThrowbackThursday lets revisit Transtopia in the Sinophone Pacific by Howard Chiang from 2021— a groundbreaking book that reimagines trans history beyond Western borders. 📖 Link our author interview: wp.me/p6JJ6S-4iK #PrideMonth🌈

‘I wrote, in short, a more radical treatise on how we might get free’ – Marquis Bey Rather than an outline of our interview with Marquis Bey on Black Trans Feminism, in today’s #transhistory spotlight, we’re going to let the interview speak for itself. Read it here: wp.me/p6JJ6S-4E1

This #ThrowbackThursday we’re zooming our #transhistory lens onto the topic of female husbands and people assigned female at birth who dressed in male attire, lived as men, and loved women. #PrideMonth #queerhistory #lgbtqhistory 1/7

‘[W]hat we might think is obvious about sex or gender today wasn’t necessarily so for our predecessors’ – Leah DeVun In today’s #transhistory spotlight, we look back on our interview with DeVun on The Shape of Sex: Nonbinary Gender from Genesis to the Renaissance. 1/4

"Governing Gender and Sexuality in Colonial India" by Jessica Hinchy revisits the British colonial obsession with legibility, criminality, and the erasure of the Hijra community — a third-gender rooted in pre-colonial India. Link: wp.me/p6JJ6S-4E3 #TransHistory #DecolonizeGender #ThrowbackThursday

It has been a month of our #transhistory spotlights, and we’ve uncovered a lot of excellent pieces from our back catalogue. Today’s spotlight is not explicitly a trans history, but its discussion of the complexities of early modern understandings of sex is highly relevant to the field. 1/4

Raúl Luis Suárez, assigned female at birth, lived and loved as a man for over two decades. Although the Argentinian state and press misgendered him after his death in 1930, the subtle smile in his official ID photo gestures toward a defiance that outlasts authority’s categorization. #TransHistory

Healthcare takes the human body and works to restore it to wellness, promote its wellbeing, or safely guide it through medical events. 1/4

We might have missed #ThrowbackThursday this week, but Saturday evening is the perfect time to delve into our next piece of #transhistory. Today, we’re resharing our interview with Alicia Spencer-Hall and Blake Gutt. Find it here: wp.me/p6JJ6S-4lv #LGBTQHistory #QueerHistory #HistSex 1/4

What is better than one interview with Howard Chiang? The answer, of course, is two. Back in 2019, we interviewed Chiang on his book, After Eunuchs: Science, Medicine, and the Transformation of Sex in Modern China. Read the interview here: wp.me/p6JJ6S-3Cl #transhistory #lgbtqhistory 1/4

Lets #ThrowbackThursday to 2020 when Spain’s Royal Academy briefly recognized the gender-neutral pronoun ‘elle’— a landmark moment for #nonbinary visibility in Spanish. Weeks later it was quietly erased, cutting short a rare window for institutional recognition. Link: wp.me/p6JJ6S-4ID #Linguistics

Assumptions about the linearity of public reception to trans identities, the idea of straightforward progress, can be disrupted not only unfortunately in the anti-trans discourse of present day, but also by unveiling primary sources on the public views of the past. 1/3

To entice you further, I edited this fascinating and riotous piece by Hauke Branding on the history of West German homosexual action groups in the 70s which includes a diagram of how leftists ought to style their pubic hair 🙃 Follow @notchesblog.bsky.social notchesblog.com/2024/05/07/p...

4,000 years ago, the goddess Inanna was praised for the power "to turn a man into a woman and a woman into a man." Her followers lived and worshipped outside of today’s gender binary. Read "Evidence for Trans Lives in Sumer" by Cheryl Morgan below: Link: wp.me/p6JJ6S-2TW #ThrowbackThursday 1/3

Today’s #transhistory post brings us back to 18th Century Boston. In an article by Caitlin Hopkins, we are offered a single newspaper advert describing a runaway enslaved person, “named Cato […] and well known by the Name of Miss Betty Cooper”.

For #ThrowbackThursday, we are bringing #TransHistory‍ to the forefront with NOTCHES’ own Kit Heyam’s 2022 work, “Before We Were Trans.” 🏳️‍⚧️ 1/4 Link to our author interview: wp.me/p6JJ6S-4uJ #Trans #LGBTQIA #QueerHistory

Following two illuminating articles on nightclub Taboo and iconic doorman Marc Vaultier, today we bring you a new post: “Would You Let Yourself In?” Reflections on Marc Vaultier’s Mirror by Stephen Brogan. Read it here: wp.me/p6JJ6S-4Ni #QueerHistory #HistSex #HistoryofSexuality 1/5

Following two illuminating articles on nightclub Taboo and iconic doorman Marc Vaultier, today we bring you a new post: “Would You Let Yourself In?” Reflections on Marc Vaultier’s Mirror by Stephen Brogan. Read it here: wp.me/p6JJ6S-4Ni #QueerHistory #HistSex #HistoryofSexuality 1/5

Today is #ThrowbackThursday but, before we get into it, we believe it is important to highlight NOTCHES' ongoing support for the trans community and our commitment to trans scholarship. 1/6

Great piece by @jaredstearnssf.bsky.social on @notchesblog.bsky.social: "Marilyn Chambers, as a gay icon, is perhaps overdue for consideration." And if you're not already following @notchesblog.bsky.social then you should! #histsex #marilynchambers #cultfilm notchesblog.com/2025/04/15/t...

From a hidden tape to gay icons, in today’s new NOTCHES post, Jared Stearns explores the sexual star-power of Marilyn Chambers. Read The Sexual Revolutions of Marilyn Chambers here: wp.me/p6JJ6S-4L9 #HistSex #HistoryofSexuality

In today’s pick for #ThrowbackThursday, Alexie Glover interviews Rosalind Rosenberg on her book, Jane Crow: The Life of Pauli Murray. Murray was an important civil rights activist, and, as Rosenberg shows, brings to light an important intersection: race and gender. Read it here: wp.me/p6JJ6S-37E

In case you missed it earlier, today we have a brand new NOTCHES post out by Stephen Brogan. Read it here: wp.me/p6JJ6S-4Mh

In today’s new NOTCHES post, The Two Faces of Taboo, Stephen Brogan looks at Marc Vaultier, doorman of Taboo, and how this key figure of the club has been lost in the history. Delving into Marc’s style, the role of door-persons at clubs, and press, Brogan’s article brings Vaultier back into focus.

Great essay by Stephan Brogan @notchesblog.bsky.social on Marc Vaultier, Leigh Bowery and Taboo 🌈

This #ThrowbackThursday, closely following Trans Day of Visibility, we wanted to focus on trans history, so we’re looking back at the work of Joseph Gamble in “Information Pleases”: Dictionaries and Trans History. #QueerHistory #HistSex #HistoryofSexuality 1/3

Murder, homosexuality, and sources are the themes of today’s #ThrowbackThursday article. We’re revisiting Samantha Caslin’s article, Digital Witnesses: The Parker-Hulme Murder Case and the Teaching of Crime and Sexual Deviance. #HistSex #HistoryofSexuality 1/4