Archives of Sexuality and Gender: Sex and Sexuality, Sixteenth to Twentieth Century

“"[The archive] provides an eclectic but thorough stockpile of resources from the time period, offering everything from erotic fiction and memoirs to essays on marriage, hygiene, and celibacy, to notes from the trial of Oscar Wilde. The digitized materials are largely high quality and searchable, and the database includes a term-frequency search option." "[Archives of Sexuality and Gender Part III] is a wonderfully in-depth resource with many useful features."”

“"By facilitating access to so much material held in Private Cases, the Gale project greatly expands our knowledge of those collections, leads to a better understanding of Private Case collections in general, and makes a uniquely valuable contribution to our knowledge of the past." "Although it was clear to me in the late 1990s that some of these reference works would be indispensable for my research into the publication, distribution and availability of erotica in the eighteenth century, many of them were as difficult to locate as original editions of L’escholle des filles and Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure. Both the works themselves and the scholarship that related to them were not available locally, were very difficult to locate elsewhere and prohibitively expensive to buy personal copies of." "The need for [this collection] has long been felt; and—while it cannot replace what has been truly lost —the massive expansion in access to this substantial body of primary texts, previously immured in special, restricted, and often secret collections, is particularly welcome... it is likely to contribute to the rapid expansion of scholarship on sex and sexuality and the rapid development in this important area of research."”