Rereading Sex
Subtitle: Battles over Sexual Knowledge and Suppression in Nineteenth-Century America
Publisher: Knopf
Published: September 3, 2002
Language: eng
Number of pages: 528
ISBN-13: 9780375401923
First sentence: Since colonial times Americans have worried about what their neighbors read about sex.
Description: A study of nineteenth-century opinions toward human sexuality examines the various viewpoints that shaped American attitudes toward the human body, love, intercourse, masturbation, contraception, abortion, free love, and erotica.