Abstract
Part I. Sexology Before the Era of Freud: 1. Sowing the field: Greek and Roman sexology Helen King 2. Sadism, masochism and history, or when is behaviour sado-masochistic? Vern L. Bullough 3. Some traditional Indian views on menstruation and female sexuality Julia Leslie 4. Sexual knowledge in England, 1500-1750 Patricia Crawford 5. The transformation of Eve: women's bodies, medicine and culture in early modern England Robert Martensen 6. The literature of sexual advice before 1800 Roy Porter 7. The eclipse of sexual selection theory Simon J. Frankel 8. Mammals, primatology and sexology Londa Schiebinger 9. Krafft-Ebbing's psychological understanding of sexual behaviour Renate Hauser Part II. Sexuality Since Freud: 10. The customs of the Magians: the problems of incest in historical societies Michael Mitterauer 11. Masculinity and the decadence George L. Mosse 12. 'Not a stranger, a doctor': medical men and sexual matters in the late nineteenth century Angus McLaren 13. 'May the doctor advise extra-marital intercourse?': medical debates on sexual abstinence in Germany, c. 1900 Andreas Hill 14. The development of sexology in the USA in the twentieth century Vern L. Bullough 15. Sigmund Freud and the sexologists: a second reading Sander L. Gilman 16. 'The English have hot-water bottles': the morganatic marriage of medicine and sexology in Britain since William Acton Lesley A. Hall 17. Tainted love Richard Davenport-Hines and Christopher Phipps.
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