The History of Gay Sex - The History of Data on Gay Sex

The History of Data on Gay Sex

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01/28/22 • 28 min

The History of Gay Sex

It seems like everything these days is all about data. We live in a "data age" like never before. But how has data influenced our understanding of homosexuality? Not only have we come to better understand human sexuality but Alfred Kinsey's data on homosexuality in the 1940s was consequential to the gay rights movement in the western world. Learn more about the man himself and his findings that forever changed how we define truly normative human sexual expression.

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"Were There Gays In The Nazi Ranks? Sex In The Third Reich"

On this episode The History of Gay Sex guest stars our fellow podcast The History of Sex by B.T. Newberg. BT explores the history of homosexuality in Germany during the era of Nazism.
"Were there really gays in the Nazi party, even though they sent thousands of homosexuals to concentration camps or worse? Yes. In fact, Ernst Röhm, the second most powerful man in the party in the early years, was gay - and a close friend of Hitler's. How could this be?"

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The Sambia: the Semen Ingesting Tribe of Papua New Guinea

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