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From earliest times, sex has fascinated and repulsed society in equal measure. In an effort to untangle Western society's complex relationship with the realities of sex, this provocative volume explores the ways in which governments, religious leaders and cultures in Europe tried to regulate sex and sexuality throughout history. From the sacred texts of ancient Israel to the slums of 19th century Britain, this book explores political, legal and cultural controls on consensual sex and the individuals and movements that resisted them. Topics range from prostitution and homosexuality to marriage, contraception and abortion. While traditional narrative holds that Europe alternated between sexual freedom and oppression through the Victorian age, this work reveals that the real story of how sex was regulated--and how people defied regulation--is not so clear cut.
Contents
Table of Contents
Acknowledgments deletexi
Preface
Introduction
I. The Torah
Sex and Purity
Leviticus 18:22 and 20:13
Female Sexuality and Its Male Victims
II. Ancient Greece and the First Sexologists
Old-Fashioned Greek Values
Homer and Hesiod, Sappho and Achilles
The Greeks Contemplate Pederasty
Sex, Honor and Hybris
III. The Decadent Past,
from Alexander the Great to Antinuous
Sex in the Hellenistic World
When Romans Were Romans
Fornication, Marriage and
Scandal under the Republic
Imperial Interventions
Perverts and Prostitutes
Celibacy and Sex for Pleasure
Punishing Desire in the Afterlife
IV. Rise of a New Order
When East Meets West
Sex and the New Testament
The Church Fathers versus Sex
Sex under the Late Roman Empire
Escaping the World
V. The War on Sin
Justinian I and the End of Antiquity
Sex under Irish and Welsh Law
Sex under Germanic Law
Choosing Holiness
Imposing Holiness
The Islamic Alternative
VI. Medieval Rigidness
Triumph of the Church
The Theology of Sex
Jews in a Christian World
On the Frontier: Scandinavia and Slavic Europe
Sex and (Imagined) Love
Civilization's Sewer
Invasion of the Sodomites
Sinners Defiant
Savonarola's Florence
VII. The Sensual Empire: Turkey, 1453-1800
Sharia Law, Civil Law and Sex
Beardless Youths
In the Harem
The War on Prostitution
VIII. Reforming and Reaffirming
The Reformers versus Sex
Sex in Protestant Europe
Heaven on Earth: Calvin's
Geneva and Cromwell's England
Sex in Catholic and Orthodox Europe
The Radicals of the Reformation
The Erotic Side of the Printing Press
Deporting Morals
Rationalizing Sex
IX. Enlightened Bedrooms, 1700-1814
The Philosophes Debate Sex
The Age of Decadence
The Age of Reform
Tribads and Mollys
The Pornographic Underground
Sex under the First Republic and Napoleon
X. A Brave New World
A Bourgeois Mentality
Imposing Decency
Invasion of the Inverts
Indecency for Mass Consumption
The Science of Sex
Radicals versus (or for) Sex
Epilogue: The Thaw
Chapter Notes
Bibliography
Index
