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Lascivious Bodies: A Sexual History of the Eighteenth Century
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Product Description
From Florentine lesbian nuns to French cattle buggers Lascivious Bodies examines all sorts of sex, in all sorts of places, with all sorts of people. Drawing upon vivid firsthand material and private letters, Julie Peakman explores heterosexual behaviour, male and female homosexuality and more curious or abnormal activities, such as foot-fetishism, flagellation, necrophilia and cross-dressing. Lascivious Bodies is the definitive account of a period of diverse sexual pleasures, and how they have shaped the way we think about sex today.
Product Details
- Amazon Sales Rank: #81735 in Books
- Published on: 2005-08-18
- Original language: English
- Binding: Paperback
- 352 pages
Editorial Reviews
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"'A jolly and Informative book, nicely produced... soundly researched and spiced with lurid details. Her descriptions bring a period of unbridled sexual appetite roaring to life.' Miranda Seymour, Sunday Times; 'Oh my. Don't I get the julcy jobs?... Every [other] sexual diversion is on display, every taboo and curlosity... Peakman is an energetic researcher... Lascivious Bodies makes today's swingers look very tame.' Edwina Currie, New Statesman"
About the Author
Julie Peakman is a lecturer Oxford Brookes University and honorary fellow at the Wellcome Trust Centre, UCL where she gained her PhD under Roy Porter. Her previous book, Mighty Lewd Books was published in 2003. She is currently working on a sexual history of the world, to be published by Atlantic Books in 2007.
Customer Reviews
Tickled pink
As someone with a serious interest in all things 18th-century, this proved a wonderful addition to my collection. However, whether you read this for historical/social reasons or just pure pleasure, this book is an enjoyable, face-paced read. Written in a style very easy to read and relate to, the situations are re-created in detail, with just enough light-heartedness.
Fascinating and scintillating, you will be shocked and amused by just what our ancestors got up to, with everything from sex clubs to homosexual erotica (un)covered.
