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Sex and pleasure in western culture

by Gail Hawkes

An overview of desire and pleasure in Western sexual culture from Classical Antiquity to the present. Drawing on historical and sociological sources, it analyses how sexual pleasure has consistently evoked social and moral anxieties across different eras.

Accession 1694 ISBN 9780745616711 Publisher Polity
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