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  1. Common Women
    Prostitution and Sexuality in Medieval England (Studies in the History of Sexuality)

    Resource Type: Book
    Karras analyzes medieval attitudes towards prostitutes and female sexuality.
  2. The Erotic Arts
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1975
    Covers the uses of erotic themes in various branches of the arts at all times and in many civilizations.
  3. Meet the Fokkens
    Resource Type: Unclassified
    Published: 2011
    A documentary on Louise and Martine Fokkens, 69-year-old twin sisters who have worked as prostitutes in the red-light district in Amsterdam for over 40 years.
  4. The Secret Museum
    Pornography in Modern Culture

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1988
    Kendrick looks at the idea of pornography since the word was coined a century and a half ago, concentrating less on the books and pictures that have instigated battles over "pornography" than on what people thought and felt about them.
  5. SexSources.ca
    Resource Type: Website
    Published: 2017
    A web portal featuring sexuality resources: articles, websites, books. The home page features a selection of recent and important articles. A search feature, subject index, and other research tools make it possible to find additional resources and information.
  6. Sexuality and capitalism
    The Italian Renaissance

    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2014
    Revolutionary struggles against capitalism have raised, time and again, the issue of sexual liberation. Right at the start of capitalism, the English revolution of the 1640s and 1650s involved what historian Christopher Hill has called a “sexual revolution” against the old order.
  7. The Uses of Disorder
    Personal Identity and City Life

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1970
    An examination of the ways the modern city has failed, and an exploration of new modes of urban organization through which city life can become richer and more life-affirming.
  8. The Wisdom of Whores
    Bureaucrats, Brothels, and the Business of AIDS

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2008
    Pisani's book The Wisdom of Whores is a scathing attack on the bureaucratic international aid communities that deal with HIV/AIDS. Topics include: injection of drugs and the idea of harm reduction by the use of clean needles and methadone to prevent the spread of HIV, the question of economic resources and how and where they are spent, the concept of abstinence and how the U.S. administration views has undermined the use of condoms.


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