'C. Castiglia' in OBA Collectie

The AIDS epidemic soured the memory of the sexual revolution and gay liberation of the 1970s, and prominent politicians, commentators, and academics instructed gay men to forget the sexual cultures of the 1970s in order to ensure a healthy future. But w...

Sex panics are outgrowths of restrictive changes in cultural consciousness, of which the crackdowns on nonnormative sexual spaces by the police or by zoning boards are only late manifestations. In particular, sex panics cannot take place without a syste...