Lascivious Bodies

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From Florentine lesbian nuns to French cattle buggers Lascivious Bodies examines all sorts of sex, in all sorts of places, with all sorts of people. Drawing upon vivid first-hand material and private letters, Julie Peakman explores eighteenth-century heterosexual behaviour, male and female homosexuality and more curious or abnormal activities, such as foot-fetishism, flagellation, necrophilia and cross-dressing. Lascivious Bodies is the definitive account of a period of diverse sexual pleasures and how they shaped the way we think about sex today.

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"'A jolly and Informative book, nicely produced... soundly researched and spiced with lurid details. Her descriptions bring a period of unbridled sexual appetite roaring to life.' Miranda Seymour, Sunday Times; 'Oh my. Don't I get the julcy jobs... Every [other] sexual diversion is on display, every taboo and curlosity... Peakman is an energetic researcher... Lascivious Bodies makes today's swingers look very tame.' Edwina Currie, New Statesman"

Author Bio

Julie Peakman lectures at Oxford Brookes University and is an honorary fellow of the Wellcome Trust Centre, UCL where she gained her PhD under the supervision of Roy Porter. Her previous book Mighty Lewd Books: The Development of Pornography in Eighteenth-Century England was published in 2003. Lascivious Bodies was published by Atlantic Books in 2005. She lives in London and on the Greek island of Leros.