At an unusual seminar in France, leading sexual historians, commentators, psychologists, and behaviorists contributed frank, blunt, and sometimes colorful reports and examples. The authors have compiled the most enlightening of these reports into a book that literally holds nothing back. Western Sexuality is definitely not for children. It traces the evolution of sexual "mores" from the homosexuality in ancient Rome to temptations in Biblical times, through the centuries to today's unions—marital and non-marital. The decline of the psychoanalyst and the rise of the sexologist are explored and explained. Prostitution, masturbation, various perversions, sexual dysfunctions, and other subjects once thought to be taboo are covered without subtlety. (After all, this was a professional seminar!) Be prepared to encounter the normal and the abnormal when you read this uncensored history of sexual behavior.
