Brian M. Watson

Latest

• [WIP] Blue Laws, Blue Books: E. Haldeman-Julius & American Sexual Knowledge before Kinsey
• [Forthcoming] Mind the Gap: Sexology and Library of Congress Classification of Erotica, Pornography, Families and Children.
• [Forthcoming] Utopian Potentiality: Histories of Polyamory and Non-Monogamy
• [Under Review] A Finding Aid to the Pornographic Imaginary: Implications of Amateur Classifications on/by reddit’s NSFW 411
• [Under Review] “Stunted even unto Asexuality:” The History and Classification of Asexuality in LCSH
• [WIP] (Trans) Naming
• Ethical Questions in Name Authority Control
• Subjects In Chains: Linked Data Vocabularies and Sexual Liberation
• Queer as Data: Linked Data and Minoritized Digital Archives
• A Library Privacy Primer
• Homosaurus and Digital Transgender Archive
• Intellectual Freedom 101
• Still Chilling: Censorship Beyond Banned Books
• Using Podcasts and Videos for Scholarly Communication
• Publishing Your Dissertation Open Access
• Queer Beginnings: From Fanzines to Rule 34
• cOAlition S: The Future of Research
• Open Access Week 2018!
• The Victorian with a Secret
• Annals of Pornographie: How Porn Became Bad
• A History of the Condom
• History Of The Dildo
• How did porn become porn?
• Where did the ideas of homosexuality and heterosexuality come from?
• Why and When Did Masturbation Become an Issue?
• Book Review: Annals of Pornographie
• “A Poison More Deadly”: Defining Obscenity in the West
• Porn Historian Brian Watson Explains Balloon Porn, 17th-Century Dildos in Reddit AMA
• The Raunchy World of Edmund Curll
• Society, Vice, and Suppression: The Historical Creation of Pornography in England, 1750-1850