Reblog via Michael Sappol, NOTCHES Blog

A 2024 book, Queer Anatomies, explores the queer gaze of anatomical drawings from the 18th and 19th centuries.

Sexual body parts and same-sex desire were unmentionables in 18th- and 19th-century Europe, debarred from polite conversation and printed discourse. Yet one scientific discipline, anatomy, had license to represent the intimate details of the […]

https://qthry.net/michael-sappols-queer-eye-for-the-anatomical-guy/