Floating World
Lovers in an Upstairs Room by Kitagawa Utamaro
What’s New
Sex: A Modern History
by Joanna BourkeSex has a history. The ways people express affection for each other have changed dramatically over time and geographical place. But the history of sexuality is not only about sex. It sheds light on human relationships, needs and desires, expectations and exceptions.
Fiction
Give Piss A Chance
by Robert PerchanI didn’t hear the water running. You didn’t wash your hands.
Reviews
Sex – Lessons from History
by Lucy RoeberSince the publication of her first book in 2014, The Victorian Guide to Sex, Fern Riddell has established herself as a cultural historian of gender, sex and suffrage in the 19th century. Her new book, published in June this year, Sex - Lessons from History, is an ambitious attempt to look at sex in history and discover what we can learn from it. It is a historiography that turns, at times, into a fascinating polemic about modern times.
Love & Sex
Unpacking Our Baggage
by Karin Jones The single most disgraceful moment of my adult life, when hissing snakes erupted from my flipped out prefrontal cortex and my lizard brain took control of my mouth, was the day my lover of eight months returned from his errands without the York peppermint patty I’d requested.
Galleries
Henry Monnier (1799 – 1877) A Group of Erotic Miniatures
Henry Bonaventure Monnier, artist and playwright, was born 7 June 1799. After studying at the Lycée Bonaparte, he frequented the workshops of the neo-classical artists Anne-Louis Girodet-Trioson and Baron Antoine–Jean Gros. Aged just 23, Monnier went to live in London, returning to Paris five years later where he started to encounter and befriend a glittering cast of authors and painters of the time: Alexandre Dumas, Théophile Gautier, Stendhal, Eugène Sue, Prosper Mérimée, Eugène Scribe, Eugène Delacroix, Louis Boulanger and Honoré de Balzac.
Articles
Sex: A Modern History
by Joanna BourkeSex has a history. The ways people express affection for each other have changed dramatically over time and geographical place. But the history of sexuality is not only about sex. It sheds light on human relationships, needs and desires, expectations and exceptions.
History Of Pleasure
Respectable Women Don’t Wear Pants
by Lucy RoeberNowadays, not wearing underpants is a statement. It’s an act of seduction or daring or extreme forgetfulness. Going commando is whispered and giggled about. It’s funny and possibly sexy and definitely out of the ordinary. However, in the 18th century, respectable women didn’t wear pants, only whores did.