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34 along with the nearly 100 pages of footnotes in this thoroughly researched book there are another 350 pages with hundreds of... Read More
Very informative and the author includes a lot of sly jokes which make it much easier to read
The only fault this reader found with the history book was that it included more information than i wanted
Competitiveness
And what compares to what we now know and practice in the socalled modern world
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A helpful explanation at the beginning of the book explains that most of this book approaches through a cisheterosexual lens because that is how history records it
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But as such leaves this book largely heterofocused
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Some of what was thought at the time seems downright foolish today
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Most of the medical treatises of the times were written by men as might be expected they were based mainly on preconceived pardon the pun notions
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This is not a comprehensive study of every sexual quirk kink and ritual across all cultures throughout time as that would entail writing an encyclopaedia
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Rather this is a drop in the ocean a paddle in the shallow end of sex history
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Humans are the only creatures that stigmatise particular sexual practices and sex remains a deeply divisive issue around the world
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Attitudes will change and grow – hopefully for the better – but sex will never be free of stigma or shame unless we acknowledge where it has come from
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