Mighty Lewd Books - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Mighty Lewd Books write by J. Peakman. This book was released on 2003-06-24. Mighty Lewd Books available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Mighty Lewd Books describes the emergence of a new home-grown English pornography. Through the examination of over 500 pieces of British erotica, this book looks at sex as seen in erotic culture, religion and medicine throughout the long eighteenth-century, and provides a radical new approach to the study of sexuality.
Sexual Perversions, 1670–1890
Sexual Perversions, 1670–1890 - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Sexual Perversions, 1670–1890 write by J. Peakman. This book was released on 2009-07-30. Sexual Perversions, 1670–1890 available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A fascinating glimpse into the history of sexual perversions and diversions including fetishism, cross-dressing, 'effeminate' men and 'masculinized' women, sodomy, tribadism, masturbation, necrophilia, rape, paedophilia, flagellation, and sado-masochism, asking how these sexual inclinations were viewed at a particular time in history.
Lascivious Bodies
Lascivious Bodies - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Lascivious Bodies write by Julie Peakman. This book was released on 2005. Lascivious Bodies available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In 'Lascivious Bodies' Julie Peakman presents a history of sex in 18th-century Britain, a period of wide-ranging experimentation that led to the birth of modern sexuality as we now know it.
Licentious Worlds
Licentious Worlds - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Licentious Worlds write by Julie Peakman. This book was released on 2019-10-15. Licentious Worlds available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Licentious Worlds is a history of sexual attitudes and behavior through five hundred years of empire-building around the world. In a graphic and sometimes unsettling account, Julie Peakman examines colonization and the imperial experience of women (as well as marginalized men), showing how women were not only involved in the building of empires, but how they were also almost invariably exploited. Women acted as negotiators, brothel keepers, traders, and peace keepers—but they were also forced into marriages and raped. The book describes women in Turkish harems, Mughal zenanas, and Japanese geisha houses, as well as in royal palaces and private households and onboard ships. Their stories are drawn from many sources—from captains’ logs, missionary reports, and cannibals’ memoirs to travelers’ letters, traders’ accounts, and reports on prostitutes. From debauched clerics and hog-buggering Pilgrims to sexually-confused cannibals and sodomizing samurai, Licentious Worlds takes history into its darkest corners.
The Pleasure's All Mine
The Pleasure's All Mine - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Pleasure's All Mine write by Julie Peakman. This book was released on 2013-10-15. The Pleasure's All Mine available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Handcuffs, paddles, whips—the words alone are enough to make a person blush. Even by our society’s standards, the practice of things like BDSM is still very hush-hush, considered deviant sexual behavior that must be kept hidden. But the narrow view of what is thought of as “normal” sex—a vanilla act performed by one man and one woman—is more and more contested these days. And as Julie Peakman reveals, normal never really existed; for everyone, different kinds of sex have always offered myriad pleasures, and almost all sexual behaviors have traveled between acceptance and proscription. The Pleasure’s All Mine examines two millennia of letters, diaries, court records, erotic books, medical texts, and more to explore the gamut of “deviant” sexual activity. Delving into the specialized cultures of pain, necrophilia, and bestiality and the social world of plushies, furries, and life-size sex dolls, Peakman considers the changing attitudes toward these, as well as masturbation, “golden showers,” sadomasochism, homosexuals, transvestites, and transsexuals. She follows the history of each behavior through its original reception to its interpretation by sexologists and how it is viewed today, showing how previously acceptable behaviors now provoke social outrage, or vice versa. In addition, she questions why people have been and remain intolerant of other people’s sexual preferences. The first comprehensive history of sexual perversion and packed with both color and black and white images, The Pleasure’s All Mine is a fascinating and sometimes shocking look at the evolution of our views on sex.
