Scott De Orio is an historian whose research focuses on the history of the development of the state power over gender and sexual practices. His first book project, The Invention of Bad Gay Sex: Policing Male Homosexuality in the Postwar United States (in production) examines the creation of a hierarchy of “good” and “bad” forms of gay male sex in the American carceral state. De Orio’s second book project in progress, The Children’s Crusade: Governing Child Sexuality in the Modern Transatlantic World, examines the development of state responses to child sexual abuse from the Enlightenment to the present. His writing has appeared or will appear in the Journal of the History of Sexuality, Law & Social Inquiry, and the edited collection The War on Sex (Duke, 2017).