Hawkes, Gail,  1945- <br/><br/>
Sex and pleasure in western culture / 
 Sex & pleasure in western culture 
Gail Hawkes. 
 - vii, 207 pages ;  23 cm 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references and index. 
<br/><br/>Prologue: the sexual landscape of the new millennium -- Sex pleasure and self-control in classical antiquity -- Sinful sex: early Christianity and the problem of desire -- Guilty sex, courtly love and the unruly body: medieval themes and practices -- Sex, the body and desire in the pre-modern period -- Pleasure and desire in the age of modernity -- Obligatory pleasures and undisciplined desires: the sexual century reviewed. 
<br/><br/> A comprehensive overview of desire and pleasure in Western sexual culture. The author argues that both have always been seen as socially disruptive and morally dangerous and offers an entertaining account of the methods by which these attributes of sex were managed across the centuries. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>0745616704 9780745616704 0745616712 9780745616711 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>2003021755 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Sex customs--History<br/>Civilization, Western--History
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>HQ12  / .H385 2004 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>306.709