The Sexuality Papers

Originally published in 1984. The history of sex in the last 100 years has usually been written as a story of progress from repression to sexual liberation. This book argues that the reverse is true.

Coveney, Lal; Jackson, Margaret; Jeffreys, Sheila; Kay, Leslie; Mahony, Pat

Biographical notes, Introduction, 1. 'Free from all uninvited touch of man': women's campaigns around sexuality, 1880-1914, 2. Sexology and the social construction of male sexuality (Havelock Ellis), 3. Sexology and the universalization of male sexuality (from Ellis to Kinsey, and Masters and Johnson), 4. Theory into practice: sexual liberation or social control?(Forum magazine 1968-81), Bibliography