Alayna Costner

I'm a psychology major with a neuroscience concentration at Grinnell College, but my home is in midwestern Illinois. I'm using this class to go outside my usual academic range to find out a little bit more about one of the few universal human experiences - sex.

Yours, Forever: The History of Love Letters

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For our long podcast, we looked at the history of love letters by addressing several subtopics. We used these subtopics to demonstrate why love letters are an important part of history. First, we talked about how letters are a unique source because they detailed intimacy that was not publically seen. We analyzed excerpts from love… Read more Yours, Forever: The History of Love Letters

Sexy Chins: The Erotics of Chin Chucking

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  Lila Cardozo, Sidney Litke, and Niya Weedon discuss the Erotics of Chin Chucking by Will Fisher. Edited by Alayna Costner. Bibliography Fisher, Will. “The Erotics of Chin Chucking in Seventeenth-Century England.” In Sex before Sex: Figuring the Act in Early Modern England, edited by Bromley James M. and Stockton Will, by Traub Valerie, 141-69.… Read more Sexy Chins: The Erotics of Chin Chucking