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Sex : lessons from history / Fern Riddell.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Riddell, Fern, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Sex customs--History.
- Sex customs.
- History.
- Love--History.
- Love.
- Genre:
- History.
- Physical Description:
- 355 pages ; 25 cm
- Place of Publication:
- London : Hodder & Stoughton, 2021.
- Summary:
- "A powerful new cultural history of sex written by one of the UK's most prominent historians. Sex, for the entirety of human history, has never been about reproduction. Statistically speaking, only one out of every one thousand sexual acts between a man and a woman will result in a pregnancy. And, as we know, sex does not solely take place just between men and women. So: what is sex for? In this wide-ranging and powerful new history of sex, Dr Fern Riddell will uncover the sexual lives of our ancestors and show that, just like us, they were as preoccupied with sexual identities, masturbation, foreplay, sex and deviance; facing it with the same confusion, joy and accidental hilarity that we do today. By looking at how history has dealt with different parts of our sexual experience, we're taken on an illuminating and entertaining journey about why we have sex - and what that means today"--Publisher's description.
- Contents:
- Machine generated contents note: ch. 1 The First Fuck
- ch. 2 Women Loving Women
- ch. 3 Men Loving Men
- ch. 4 Loving Who You Want
- ch. 5 The Body
- ch. 6 Masturbation
- ch. 7 Flirtation
- ch. 8 Sex
- ch. 9 Technology
- ch. 10 Orgasms
- ch. 11 Contraception
- ch. 12 Sex Work
- ch. 13 Rape
- ch. 14 The Future of Sex.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781473666252
- 1473666252
- OCLC:
- 1140156899
- Publisher Number:
- 99989502848
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