Bibliograph

Sex, lessons from history, Fern Riddell

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Sex, lessons from history, Fern Riddell

Language

eng

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Sex

Responsibility statement

Fern Riddell

Sub title

lessons from history

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

Table Of Contents

Introduction -- The first fuck -- Women loving women -- Men loving men -- Loving who you want -- The body -- Masturbation -- Flirtation -- Sex -- Technology -- Orgasms -- Contraception -- Sex work -- Rape -- The future of sex

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