Books About Historical Sex, Erotic Art and Artefacts
Erotica:
An Illustrated Anthology of Art and Literature by Charlotte
Hill (Editor), William Wallace (Editor)
With over 100,000 copies in print of the previous edition, this
illustrated anthology presents a collection of the very best examples
of sexual art and literature spanning two thousand years: from classical
Rome and the ancient East to the novels of D. H. Lawrence and Henry
Miller.
See also Erotica
II: An Illustrated Anthology of Sexual Art and Literature and
Erotica
III: An Illustrated Anthology of Sexual Art and Literature by
the same authors
Forbidden
Art: The World of Erotica by Miss Naomi
Described in a biographical note as a traditional wife and mother
who became interested in erotic art, "Miss Naomi" has
collected over 1500 objects of erotica, here represented by 500
or so unambiguously sexually explicit items.
American
Sex Machines: The Hidden History of Sex at the U.S. Patent Office
by Hoag Levins
The author investigated the Patent Office for inventions having
to do with devices involving the human sex organs and copulation.
The author combed the archives and found more than 800 inventions
pertaining to the subject. The book organizes these inventions in
terms of general categories, and in the process shows how the Patent
Office reflects the social preoccupation of the times.
The
Technology of Orgasm : "Hysteria," the Vibrator, and Women's
Sexual Satisfaction by Rachel P. Maines
For centuries, women diagnosed with "hysteria"--a "disease
paradigm," in Rachel P. Maines's felicitous phrase, thought
to result from a lack of sexual intercourse or gratification - were
treated by massaging their genitals in order to induce "paroxysm."
Male physicians, however, considered the practice drudgery, and
sought various ways of avoiding the task, often foisting it off
on midwives or, starting in the late 19th century, employing mechanical
devices...
Devices
and Desires: A History of Contraceptives in America by
Andrea Tone
There were the dark days of frequent unwanted pregnancies, quack
remedies and backstreet abortions; then there was the Pill. Or so
we often believe about the history of birth control in America.
But the subject, as Tone, associate professor at the Georgia Institute
of Technology, shows, is much more complex.
A
Mind of Its Own : A Cultural History of the Penis by
David M. Friedman
A Mind of Its Own is a cultural examination of the penis, from ancient
Sumer to the present. Friedman convincingly suggests that humankind's
various and contradictory attitudes toward the penis have been instrumental
in mapping the course of both Western civilization and world history.
Solitary
Sex : A Cultural History of Masturbation by Thomas W.
Laqueur
A look at how masturbation came to exist as a cultural taboo.
Other books of interest
Encyclopedia
of Unusual Sex Practices by Brenda Love
A study of neurological cycles, imprinting, and primal needs shows
how people form their own unique recipes for love.
The
Sex Lives of Saints: An Erotics of Ancient Hagiography (Divinations)
by Virginia Burrus.
Sex
in History by Reay Tannahill
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