A Curious History of Sex Paperback - 4 Feb. 2021 - Amazon.co.uk

Based on the popular research project Whores of Yore and written with her distinctive humour and wit, A Curious History of Sex draws upon Dr. Kate Lister's extensive knowledge of sex history. From medieval impotence tests to twentieth-century testicle thefts, from the erotic frescoes of Pompeii, to modern-day sex doll brothels, Lister unashamedly roots around in

The rules of attraction - New Statesman

Beyond the arcane fun and games, though, the history of sex often turns out to be - depressingly, though unsurprisingly - a history of supressing women's bodies. Gynaecology, until fairly recently, was little more than a series of brutal attempts to curb the completely normal variances of the female body, or to subdue sexual impulse.

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She curates the online project www.thewhoresofyore.com and is the author the book A Curious History of Sex. You can hear more from her in a Free Thinking episode called How we talk about sex and ...

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John Cunningham is a Research Associate in the Department of History at Trinity College, Dublin, and an Associate Research Fellow in the Department of History at the University of Exeter. The NUI Publication Prize in Irish History was awarded to Dr John Cunningham for The Transplantation to Connacht, 1649-1680, published in 2011 by Boydell & Brewer for the Royal Historical Society.