Best Sexuality

Masters of Sex chronicles the research conducted by William Masters and Virginia Johnson during the 1950s to late 1960s. The Showtime drama, based on the life of Thomas Maier’s biography, followed their work in human sexuality. The series concluded after four seasons with critical acclaim and a Gold...

Gayle Rubin is an American cultural anthropologist and influential feminist theorist whose work has been foundational to gender and sexuality studies. Her 1975 essay "The Traffic in Women: Notes on the Political Economy of Sex" introduced the concept of the sex/gender system, analyzing how kinship s...

Anne Koedt's pamphlet, published in 1970, challenges conventional understandings of female pleasure. It argues that the emphasis on vaginal orgasm is a product of patriarchal societal pressures designed to control women’s sexuality. This work, rooted in feminist thought, provides critical analysis f...

Gill Valentine is a British human geographer whose research examines sexuality, identity, social difference, childhood, public space, and hate crime. Her work helped establish geographies of sexuality as a significant field within social and cultural geography. She has held senior academic posts at...

Kinsey is a 2004 biographical drama focusing on the life of Alfred Kinsey, a sexologist. The film portrays his work, particularly his 1948 publication examining human sexual behavior, which represented an early scientific approach to the subject. It features a cast including Laura Linney and Chris O...

D. H. Lawrence was an English novelist, poet, essayist, and short-story writer whose work explores industrial society, family conflict, sexuality, emotional intimacy, and relationships between individuals and the natural world. His novels include Sons and Lovers, The Rainbow, Women in Love, and Lady...

Jeffrey Weeks is a British sociologist and historian whose scholarship examines sexuality, sexual identities, social regulation, and lesbian and gay history. His 1977 book Coming Out traced homosexual politics in Britain from the 19th century through the modern liberation movement and became an impo...

Ken Plummer is a British sociologist associated with the University of Essex and the symbolic interactionist tradition. His scholarship examines sexuality, identity, intimate life, and the social processes through which people interpret and narrate experience. In Telling Sexual Stories, published in...

Steven Seidman is an American sociologist whose scholarship focuses on sexuality, queer theory, social theory, and the sociology of knowledge. His work examines how categories of sexual identity are historically produced, socially regulated, and politically contested rather than simply given by natu...

A British queer zine published in the early 1990s addressing gay and lesbian sexuality and politics with frank content that challenged mainstream cultural norms.

Smooth Talk is a 1985 American drama film directed by Joyce Chopra and based on Joyce Carol Oates's 1966 short story, "Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?". The film stars Laura Dern as Connie, a restless teenager exploring her independence in suburban California, and Treat Williams as Arnold...

2019 Broadway play by Jeremy O. Harris set on an antebellum Virginia plantation, exploring race and desire through psychosexual therapy; it received a record 12 Tony Award nominations in 2020.

Don Kulick is a prominent linguistic and cultural anthropologist whose research focuses on the complex intersections of language, gender, and sexuality. He has conducted extensive ethnographic fieldwork in a Papua New Guinean village to study language shift, as well as in Brazil where he researched...

British urban geographer at King's College London known for research on sexuality, sex work, and the moral regulation of urban space.

British feminist sociologist and activist who contributed influential analyses of the family, sexuality, and the capitalist state, particularly in the 1970s and 1980s.

American geographer who pioneered the study of sexuality and urban space, examining how gay communities shaped neighborhood gentrification and identity.

American sociologist known for research on gender, sexuality, and identity politics, including 'Sex and Sensibility' (1997), a study of lesbian identity and its relationship to feminism.

Canadian sociologist known for 'The Rise of a Gay and Lesbian Movement' (1987), a comparative historical study of LGBT organizing and social movement development across multiple countries.

Kinsey (2004) is an American biographical drama directed by Bill Condon, depicting sex researcher Alfred Kinsey whose landmark studies on human sexuality in the 1940s–50s transformed scientific and public understanding of the subject.

British geographer known for research on the globalization of sexuality and queer space, co-authoring The Sexual Citizen (2000) with David Bell.

Nico and Dani is the English-language title of Krampack, a Spanish coming-of-age film directed by Cesc Gay. Set during a summer spent without their parents, it follows teenage friends Dani and Nico as Dani confronts his attraction to Nico and the unequal nature of their desires. The film treats sexu...

A 2004 American sex comedy written and directed by John Waters, in which a repressed Baltimore housewife played by Tracey Ullman becomes a sex addict following a head injury.