The Resource The pleasure's all mine : a history of perverse sex, Julie Peakman
The pleasure's all mine : a history of perverse sex, Julie Peakman
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The item The pleasure's all mine : a history of perverse sex, Julie Peakman represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Randwick City Library.
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- Summary
- Homosexuals, transvestites, transsexuals, sado-masochists, necrophiliacs - all of these have been, or still are, considered 'deviants'. Concomitantly there has been almost universal acceptance that unembellished vaginal penetration, performed by one man and one woman, is 'normal' sex. This is now contested. But what is perverse sex and what isn't? The Pleasure's All Mine explores the gamut of sexual activity that has been seen as strange, abnormal or deviant over the last 2,000 years. This first comprehensive history of sexual perversion examines an abundance of original sources - letters, diaries, memoirs, court records, erotic books, medical texts and advice manuals - and shows how, for ordinary people, different kinds of sex have always offered myriad different pleasures. There never was a 'normal'. Almost all sexual behaviours have travelled to and fro along a continuum of proscription and acceptance. Attitudes have changed towards masturbation, leatherwear, 'golden showers' and sado-masochism. From the specialised cultures of pain, necrophilia and bestiality to the social world of plushies and furries, and lovers of life-sized sex dolls, some previously acceptable behaviour now provokes social outrage, while activities as diverse as sodomy and wife-swapping have moved on the spectrum of acceptance from sin to harmless fun
- Language
- eng
- Label
- The pleasure's all mine : a history of perverse sex
- Title
- The pleasure's all mine
- Title remainder
- a history of perverse sex
- Statement of responsibility
- Julie Peakman
- Title variation
- The pleasure is all mine
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- Homosexuals, transvestites, transsexuals, sado-masochists, necrophiliacs - all of these have been, or still are, considered 'deviants'. Concomitantly there has been almost universal acceptance that unembellished vaginal penetration, performed by one man and one woman, is 'normal' sex. This is now contested. But what is perverse sex and what isn't? The Pleasure's All Mine explores the gamut of sexual activity that has been seen as strange, abnormal or deviant over the last 2,000 years. This first comprehensive history of sexual perversion examines an abundance of original sources - letters, diaries, memoirs, court records, erotic books, medical texts and advice manuals - and shows how, for ordinary people, different kinds of sex have always offered myriad different pleasures. There never was a 'normal'. Almost all sexual behaviours have travelled to and fro along a continuum of proscription and acceptance. Attitudes have changed towards masturbation, leatherwear, 'golden showers' and sado-masochism. From the specialised cultures of pain, necrophilia and bestiality to the social world of plushies and furries, and lovers of life-sized sex dolls, some previously acceptable behaviour now provokes social outrage, while activities as diverse as sodomy and wife-swapping have moved on the spectrum of acceptance from sin to harmless fun
- Cataloging source
- BTCTA
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorDate
- 1957-
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Peakman, Julie
- Dewey number
- 306.77
- Illustrations
- illustrations
- Index
- index present
- Literary form
- non fiction
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- Paraphilias
- Sex customs
- Label
- The pleasure's all mine : a history of perverse sex, Julie Peakman
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references and index
- Control code
- 000052238243
- Dimensions
- 25 cm.
- Extent
- 472 p.
- Isbn
- 9781780231853
- Other physical details
- ill. (some col.)
- System control number
- (OCoLC)834409100
- Label
- The pleasure's all mine : a history of perverse sex, Julie Peakman
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references and index
- Control code
- 000052238243
- Dimensions
- 25 cm.
- Extent
- 472 p.
- Isbn
- 9781780231853
- Other physical details
- ill. (some col.)
- System control number
- (OCoLC)834409100
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