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A comprehensive overview of desire and pleasure in Western sexual culture. The author argues that both have always been seen as socially disruptive and morally dangerous and offers an entertaining account of the methods by which these attributes of sex were managed across the centuries.

Sex customs --- Civilization, Western --- History --- History

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Prostitution --- History --- Histoire --- Rome --- Greece --- Grèce --- Social life and customs --- Moeurs et coutumes --- Popular culture --- Sex customs --- Social conditions --- Grèce --- History. --- Popular culture - Greece. --- Popular culture - Rome --- Sex customs - Greece --- Sex customs - Rome --- Greece - Social conditions --- Rome - Social conditions

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Sex customs --- Sex --- Sexual attraction --- Vie sexuelle --- Sexualité --- Attrait sexuel --- History --- Anthropological aspects --- Histoire --- Aspect anthropologique

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Sexuality has many histories, not just one. This is the first comprehensive history of those many histories--the ways in which sex and sexuality have been made the subjects of history, and the key debates that have shaped our thinking on these elusive yet universal subjects. Historian Stephen Garton deftly sets into context the work of the major figures from Havelock Ellis and Alfred Kinsey through to Stephen Marcus and Michel Foucault, while exploring our growing understanding of such subjects as male passivity in ancient Greek sexual cultures, the "invention" of homosexuality in the nineteenth century, mechanisms for controlling the birth rate, the relation of sex to class, and the rise of sexual sciences in the twentieth century. This comprehensive volume will be a valuable tool for anyone interested in sexuality and society.

HIstoriography. --- Sex and history. --- Sex customs --- Sex --- Sex. --- History. --- Historiography. --- Sex and history --- History and sex --- History

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A vibrant, growing, and highly visible set of female identities has emerged in Thailand known as tom and dee. A "tom" (from "tomboy") refers to a masculine woman who is sexually involved with a feminine partner, or "dee" (from "lady"). The patterning of female same-sex relationships into masculine and feminine pairs, coupled with the use of English derived terms to refer to them, is found throughout East and Southeast Asia.Have the forces of capitalism facilitated the dissemination of Western-style gay and lesbian identities throughout the developing world as some theories of transnationalism suggest? Is the emergence of toms and dees over the past twenty-five years a sign that this has occurred in Thailand? Megan Sinnott engages these issues by examining the local culture and historical context of female same-sex eroticism and female masculinity in Thailand. Drawing on a broad spectrum of anthropological literature, Sinnott situates Thai tom and dee subculture within the global trend of increasingly hybridized sexual and gender identities.

Sex customs --- Gender identity --- Women --- Women --- Transgender people --- Lesbians --- Sexual behavior --- Identity. --- Identity. --- Identity. --- Thailand --- Social life and customs.