2 zines about #18thc sex work history at #asecs2026
@ecswd.bsky.social i.e. Ea Wilcox and I are vibing with unplanned zines for each of our talks on #sexhist in #18thC for #asecs26. Total delight to see how this project evolves and hope to get more involved! #sexworkiswork
Stack of zines for conference presentation with bone folder. The title is "politick whores, nightwalkers, and she friends: navigating London's sex industry in the long eighteenth century"
Yes, I did bring my bone folder to prep my handout that's a mini zine for my #asecs26 talk tomorrow late morning about #sexhist in #18thc London, come join the fun if you can.
“It is natural for man to act & for woman to be passive; & if the man is beneath, he becomes submissive by the very fact of his position, & the woman being above is active, & who cannot see how much nature herself abhors this mutation?”
HowSexGotScrewedUp.com #SexHist #WmnHist
DYK child #brothels proliferated in 1830s London? Kids were 10–15; #johns were heavy into #flagellation & #virgins. Children also freelanced. Up to 500 girls 12–15 cruised between Piccadilly Circus & Waterloo Place. Ghosts of #SexHist still haunt. HowSexGotScrewedUp.com
WG2 Seminar 12pm CET - ONLINE lunchtime seminar series - Sex education in practice: Health movement and self-help in Spain by Ángela Segura (Universidad Miguel Hernández de Elche) graphic with blue
WG2 Seminar 12pm CET - ONLINE lunchtime seminar series -
Sex education in practice: Health movement and self-help in Spain by Ángela Segura (Universidad Miguel Hernández de Elche) #MedHums #HistMed #SexHist #GenderHist #Skystorians zoom link by email @eurohealthhist.bsky.social #CA22159
Just found #18thc Sally Salisbury's burial record from St. Andrew, Holborn. She was buried on Feb 14, 1724, 3 days after her death (if other accounts are correct). 🗃️📚 I wish London Metropolitan Archives were not behind Ancestry.com paywall, but gonna just download as much as I can now #sexhist
The joys of having my students present work they've found on their own by scholars like @kathylubey.bsky.social, Nancy Fraser, Norbert Schurer, Yoojung Choi, and Laura Rosenthal to our whole #18thc sex, work, and literature class: simply endless.
Teaching can be just the best. #sexhist
Stack of books on wood shelf, mostly Broadview editions: The London Jilt Fantomina Nightwalkers Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure and also Threadbare by Anne Elizabeth Moore and the LadyDrawers
#18thc topics class #shelfie! Not pictured are our readings from 1990s to today, but they're on the syllabus.
Having such a good time teaching #sexwork #sexhist as way into 1700s print culture; my students are 🔥 so far. Thanks @broadviewpress.bsky.social for the great editions!
