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A Year of Pleasure
Introduction 1
Pt. I Orgasm and the West 7
1 Carnal Knowledge 13
The birth of the individual 13
Is it all down to sex? 20
The conquest of female pleasure 32
Pt. II Imprints: Pleasure in Pain (Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries) 41
2 Masculine, Feminine: Individuals and Their Bodies 45
Representing and talking about oneself 46
The fragility of the Self 50
The role of women 53
The fluidity of bodies 69
3 Carnal Pleasures, Mortal Sins 75
Forbidden passions 77
The joys of sex 84
Pleasure and sin 99
Pt. III Cycles: Vice and Virtue (1700-1960) 109
4 The Eroticism of the Enlightenment 115
The pornographic flood 116
Sex within measure 127
The art of the 'I' 146
5 Beneath the Victorian Veil (1800-1960) 156
Controlling sex 158
Sexuality, a shameful, even fatal, sickness 164
Through the looking glass 183
Pt. IV Revolutions? The Heritage of the Sixties 205
6 The Era of Pleasure (From 1960 to Our Own Day) 211
A sexual bombshell : the Kinsey Report 212
The discovery of the female orgasm 224
Towards a new sexual contract? 230
Conclusion: The Narcissistic Society 245
Notes 259
Bibliography 286
Index 302
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Kris Sanders
reviewed Orgasm and the West: A History of Pleasure from the 16th Century to the Present on November 11, 2013
Orgasm and the West
Sorry - I got maybe 100 pages into this before determining it was a waste of my time. I needed genuine scholarship, particularly from the feminine perspective for research last semester and all I got from this was a bunch of twaddle.
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