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Hace 3 días · Playboy, American magazine aimed at men, the first to present female nudity and sexually oriented material in a relatively sophisticated format. Its promotion of sexual freedom for both men and women contributed to the sexual revolution in the United States in the 1960s.
But at no point, even in the "sexual revolution" height of the 1970s, was it ever unilaterally "safe" and universal. In Carter's interview for Playboy a year before his presidency he was asked if his religious beliefs would make him "unbending": I've looked on a lot of women with lust. I've committed adultery in my heart many times.
Hace 4 días · Book: Sex Before the Sexual Revolution: Intimate Life in England 1918-1963. Simon Szreter, Kate Fisher. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2010, ISBN: 9780521760041; 466pp.; Price: £55.00. Reviewer: Dr Paul Atkinson. University of Huddersfield. Citation:
Hace 5 días · This book successfully explores the ‘dark side’ of Victorian sexuality from a very traditional cultural history perspective, but it is really an exaggeration to call her subjects sexual rebels. Artists have always used prostitutes as models and many poets have drunk themselves into an early grave, and imperialist explorers have often exploited native women.
Hace 3 días · This is a relatively short book by Britain's leading historian of sexuality, but it has a big agenda. Drawing on a wide range of primary and secondary sources, Lesley Hall discusses the shifts, the continuities and the changes in sexual custom and practice that prevailed between 1880 and the present day.
Hace 4 días · While sex remained a private matter, the undercurrents of rebellion were beginning to stir. The publication of Alfred Kinsey’s reports on human sexuality in 1948 and 1953 revealed that American sexual behavior was far more varied than previously acknowledged, setting the stage for future change. The 1960s: Flower Power and the Sexual Revolution
Hace 4 días · Encompassing the long 18th century, Amatory Pleasures examines a broad variety of topics in the history of sexuality in England. It includes discussion of sexual perversion, criminal conversation, erotic gardens, gentlemen's homosocial societies, flagellation, pornography, writings of courtesans and the world of female friendship, revealing the secret or hidden meanings circulating between ...
