TY  - BOOK
AU  - Hawkes,Gail
TI  - Sex and pleasure in western culture
SN  - 0745616704
AV  - HQ12 .H385 2004
U1  - 306.709 22
PY  - 2004///
CY  - Cambridge, England, Malden, MA
PB  - Polity Press
KW  - Sex customs
KW  - History
KW  - Civilization, Western
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; 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
N2  - 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
ER  -