The Origins of sex: a history of the first sexual revolution

By:

Dabhoiwala, Faramerz

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: Delhi; Penguin Books; 2012Description: 484 pISBN:

9780241955963

Subject(s):

Sex customs, Sexual ethics

DDC classification:

306.7 DAB

Summary: For most of western history, all sex outside marriage was illegal, with the church and state punishing any dissent. Between 1600 and 1800, this entire world view was shattered by revolutionary new ideas that consenting adults have the freedom to do what they like with their own bodies and morality cannot be imposed by force. This groundbreaking book shows that the creation of this modern culture of sex broadcasted and debated in a rapidly expanding universe of public media was a central part of the Enlightenment and helped create a new model of western civilization whose principles of quality, privacy and individual freedom last to this day.

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For most of western history, all sex outside marriage was illegal, with the church and state punishing any dissent. Between 1600 and 1800, this entire world view was shattered by revolutionary new ideas that consenting adults have the freedom to do what they like with their own bodies and morality cannot be imposed by force. This groundbreaking book shows that the creation of this modern culture of sex broadcasted and debated in a rapidly expanding universe of public media was a central part of the Enlightenment and helped create a new model of western civilization whose principles of quality, privacy and individual freedom last to this day.

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