SEX IN THE ARCHIVES: WRITING AMERICAN SEXUAL HISTORIES

Barry Reay/ Manchester University Press A fascinating, surprising and accessible academic odyssey into the annals of desire. Discover the extraordinary secrets of the American sex archives, including the Kinsey Institute’s erotic art, gay masturbatory journals in the New York Public Library, the private archive of an amateur pornographer and one man’s lifetime photographic dossier on Baltimore hustlers. Shedding new light on American sexual history, this is a revealing insight into sex and the social politics of archivism. Glorious, erudite smut. Out now