Sometimes Google Scholar is wonderfully useful for finding out obscure tidbits of information about people's freaky sexualities. But sometimes a more focused search is required (and less likely to turn up unpleasant results -- Google with safesearch off can be a hair-raising experience). Here's some databases and bibliographies. Please feel free to edit this page and add more.
The Language of Love, Lust, Sex and All the Many-Splendored Things in Between in Teenspeak - Jockspeak - Menglish - Slanglish - Spanglish - Gaylese - Americanese - Britspeak - Ozslang - Funetic Populo-Vulgar Speech - T-Shirt & Net Shorthand Pompo-Verbosity & other Figurative Lingos
SexBiblio: Bibliography of the History of Western Sexuality
The 3rd Edition of SEXBIBLIO was finished in February 2008. It contains about 25.300 titles of the non-belletristic primary and secondary literature of the history of sexuality in Europe, the U.S. and Canada from 1700 to 2007/8. Beyond this the database offers important titles of the sexual history of Antiquity and the Middle Ages, including non-Western societies. In the new edition you can also search for bibliographies and resources in the internet.
Diotima: Materials for the Study of Women and Gender in the Ancient World
Diotima serves as an interdisciplinary resource for anyone interested in patterns of gender around the ancient Mediterranean and as a forum for collaboration among instructors who teach courses about women and gender in the ancient world. This site includes course materials, the beginnings of a systematic and searchable bibliography, and links to many on-line resources, including articles, book reviews, databases, and images. Ross Scaife and Suzanne Bonefas launched this project in early 1995; since that time it has been developed mainly by Scaife, but with help and contributions from many quarters.
Selected Kinsey Institute Bibliographies
Included here are links to bibliographies compiled by The Kinsey Institute, as well as links to other bibliographies by researchers, health professionals, and librarians in areas for which we receive frequent inquiries.
The Feminist Theory Website provides research materials and information for students, activists, and scholars interested in women's conditions and struggles around the world. The goals of this website are: 1) to encourage a wide range of research into feminist theory, and 2) to encourage dialogue between women (and men) from different countries around the world. Hopefully, this will result in new connections, new ideas, and new information about feminist theory and women's movements.
Michael Goodyear's Research Links
-Despite a painfully user-unfriendly page design, Goodyear's links on women's health, marginalization, sex work, and research ethics contain an abundance of useful information.
The Big List of Porn [very obviously nsfw]
95% of porn sites are crap. Many of them try to trick you into going to other equally crappy sites (skimming traffic), some have adware, malware, and viruses. Tblop lists the other 5%. All sites listed on TBLOP have been reviewed and ranked by overall quality/trust.
-I didn't click through, so I don't know if the site's claims to safe surfing are legitimate, but it does link to a number of free 'YouTube'-style sites that I know to be safe, and a bunch of porn search engines that look neat. Most of the direct links to porn appear to be to hetero male-oriented sites, and the titles inspire me to include a tip with this summary: grown men don't say "boobies."
List of Web 2.0 Porn Sites [see above re: nsfw]
-a list of websites that combine the social functions of web 2.0 with pornography.
National Sexuality Resource Centre
-papers and other resources sorted by topic (e.g. "sex and disability")
Charles L. Dreveskracht's Prostitution Resources
-a whole lot of links to things about prostitution on the internet. Also, if you go up one level, a whole lot of evidence that 1) anitmated .gifs should be banned and 2) most academics are not qualified to do their own web design.
The website on lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, and, yes, heterosexual U.S. history that anyone with data and sources can edit
There is a list of 36 documentaries on sexuality that you can watch online, about halfway down the page on the right.
("Excerpts" from Youtube channels are the first video showing on the channel at the time accessed -- I haven't watched them through to see if they are good.)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e5bqUjdbzls
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-e8l43VIeAM
Youtube Channels (US and International)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AkyIfwFfAyM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-uqBP17ZERQ
Research Guides (mostly designed for undergraduate students)
AU Library Guide to Researching Topics in Women's Studies
-has a short list of some women's studies books in the library and lots of useful information about doing research
University of British Columbia Library Research Guides: Sexuality and Gender Studies
-likely to have Canadian resources
Carleton University Library Sexuality Studies Research Guide
-likely to have Canadian resources
University of Wisconsin - Madison Undergraduate Research Guides
-index contains research guides for undergraduate students on topics that include: abortion, AIDS, human trafficking, incest, LGBT issues, pornography, rape, same-sex marriage, sex education, sexual harassment, STDs, teen pregnancy, Title IX. (And other neat stuff, too.)
New York University Libraries Gender and Sexuality Research Guide
-links to more bibliographies
University of Minnesota Health Science Libraries Human Sexuality Research Portal
-and more!
Cornell University Library | Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Studies: A Research Guide
-and even more.
Vanderbilt University Library Resources for Women's Studies
-more.
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