Rethinking Sexology

The Cross-Disciplinary Invention of Sexuality: Sexual Science Beyond the Medical, 1890-1940

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Sex in Six Objects workshop on the Roman “penis pot”

penis-pot-maa-cambridgeOur project director Dr Jana Funke and Engaged Research Fellow Dr Jen Grove organised this workshop with Imogen Gunn, curator at the Museum of Archaeology Anthropology (MAA), Cambridge.

Young people aged 16-25 were given special access to the museum’s intriguing Roman “penis pot” plus a selection of similar artefacts from the past, and explored how objects like these have helped people in the modern world to think about sexuality.

This event was organised jointly by the Rethinking Sexology project and the Sex and History project at the University of Exeter.

In was part of Sex in Six Objects, a series of workshops for young people investigating the history of sexuality in six objects.

This workshop caused quite a flurry of media activity, such as in Mail Online and Cambridge News articles.

15th June 2016

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