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The Pleasure's All Mine: A History of Perverse Sex (English Edition) Formato Kindle

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Homosexuals, transvestites, transsexuals, sado-masochists, necrophiliacs – all of these have been, or still are, considered ‘deviants’. Concomitantly there has been almost universal acceptance that unembellished vaginal penetration, performed by one man and one woman, is ‘normal’ sex. This is now contested.
But what is perverse sex and what isn’t? The Pleasure’s All Mine explores the gamut of sexual activity that has been seen as strange, abnormal or deviant over the last 2,000 years. This first comprehensive history of sexual perversion examines an abundance of original sources – letters, diaries, memoirs, court records, erotic books, medical texts and advice manuals – and shows how, for ordinary people, different kinds of sex have always offered myriad different pleasures. There never was a ‘normal’.
Almost all sexual behaviours have travelled to and fro along a continuum of proscription and acceptance. Attitudes have changed towards masturbation, leatherwear, ‘golden showers’ and sado-masochism. From the specialized cultures of pain, necrophilia and bestiality to the social world of plushies and furries, and lovers of life-sized sex dolls, some previously acceptable behaviour now provokes social outrage, while activities as diverse as sodomy and wife-swapping have moved on the spectrum of acceptance from sin to harmless fun. Each ‘perversion’ is explored from the time it was first visible in history, to how it is viewed today, and along the way the book asks why we can be so intolerant of other people’s sexual preferences.
Carefully researched as well as a fascinating read, and featuring a wide array of illustrations, The Pleasure’s All Mine reaches conclusions that are surprising, and sometimes shocking. This is an essential volume for anyone interested in the art, history and culture of sex.

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'For those with an erudite interest in debauchery, this latest from author, historian, and sex scholar Peakman is just the ticket. . . . Peakman's broad overview is stunning, sweeping, and very carefully nonjudgmental. She recounts the history of each so-called perversion from its earliest recorded occurrence through the present, showing how the shifting mores of society color our views on this endlessly fascinating subject . . . Exhaustively researched and packed with startling images, this work is a fact-filled, entertaining read for sex history neophytes and scholars alike.' --Library Journal

'Serious, historically informed, and as close to an exhaustive account as we are likely ever to see of the extravagant creativity that humans have invested in sex. A masterpiece.' --Thomas W. Laqueur, Helen Fawcett Distinguished Professor in the Department of History, University of California, Berkeley

'Throughout history, sexual norms have shifted drastically: an act that is seen as deviant at one time may be widely accepted at another. Peakman argues that sexual acts have not changed much through the ages, but the cultural response to them has. Today, discussions about sexual preferences are still taboo in many parts of the world, and many opinions are still colored by society's long-held beliefs . . . This is a history for the general reader, primarily covering Western thought; it's also a wonderful reference source for sexual studies and research . . . Peakman asks readers to think about how society dictates their own opinions, and her work helps pave the way for more open discussions of sexuality in the future.' --Publishers Weekly

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Julie Peakman is a historian, author, and broadcaster who is renowned for her work on the history of sexuality. She is the author of several books and the editor, most recently, of A Cultural History of Sexuality. She lives in London.

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ASIN ‏ : ‎ B00GB5TP2M
Editore ‏ : ‎ Reaktion Books; Illustrated edizione (1 novembre 2013)
Lingua ‏ : ‎ Inglese
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Lunghezza stampa ‏ : ‎ 352 pagine

Posizione nella classifica Bestseller di Amazon: n. 427.620 in Kindle Store (Visualizza i Top 100 nella categoria Kindle Store)
- n. 837 in Storia sociale e culturale (in inglese)
- n. 4.164 in Studi culturali e sociali (in inglese)
- n. 4.592 in Psicologia (in inglese)

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Rodney

Novel book

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This is full of interesting facts which must have taken a lot of research to find.

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Perversions Past and Present

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I always ask my patients what they do for fun, and in thousands of visits I have had exactly one person reply, “Sex.” I assume that at least some of the others are having sex for fun, but it isn’t something we acknowledge freely, even if the fun is confined (as it was in his particular case) to marriage. Much less do we acknowledge fun in sexual subcategories like masturbation, cross-dressing, or flogging. People have been having sex in such non-procreative and “abnormal” ways for as long as we have records, so that what might be “normal” takes in a lot of territory in the historical view. It is this historical view that historian Julie Peakman has taken in _The Pleasure’s All Mine: A History of Perverse Sex_ (Reaktion Books), a substantial, well-illustrated, funny, and thoughtful work that shows how changeable through the times are our discomforts that “other” people are enjoying sex in the wrong way.

The classic example of such a change is masturbation. Ancient Greeks and Romans may have been disgusted by anyone masturbating in public (as that provocative pedagogue Diogenes was said to have done), but both Galen and Hippocrates thought that men and women needed regular orgasms. Coitus with a member of the opposite sex was the best way to get them, but if that wasn’t available, masturbation was thought to be healthful. This changed when the Fathers of the Christian Church took up the issue. Medical experts joined in, blaming masturbation for asthma, liver damage, insanity, and more. The anti-masturbation and pro-purity campaigns continued into the twentieth century. Scientific and sociological study of masturbation over the past decades has shown it to be universal, enjoyable, and healthful, although moralists may still rail against it. “Such is the life cycle of a sexual perversion,” reflects Peakman. A similar cycle can be seen in the degree of perversion humans assign to homosexuality, with relative acceptance by the ancients, condemnation by the church, and although there some resistance to homosexual relationships within America, and in many countries, Peakman is able to conclude her chapter listing advances since Stonewall, including the removal of homosexuality from any medical definitions of illness.

Peakman addresses in chapters here plenty of other perversions, some of which were yucky in the olden days and still are. Necrophilia is one, and bestiality, and pedophilia. The point she makes about these are the same as with the others: there is a degree of distaste or acceptance given a particular society and a particular time. Her intent is to show “how different sexual behaviors were constructed as perverse - by religion and society, in law and medicine - and argues that sexual behaviour is not in itself perverse, but only becomes so when perceived as such by certain groups in society, and that this perception changes over time.” Given that this is the case, Peakman argues, despite acts deemed taboo by the church (and not just the Christian church), a rational society needs to evaluate such taboos and see if there is any reason for acts between consenting adults to be criminalized. “Where acts are not harmful to others,” she writes, “there is no reason for legislation.” If societies are arbitrary and changeable about what they consider perversions, there is good reason to rely on the rule about harm to determine what is actually perverse and what is not. Peakman’s book is a good step toward this understanding.

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Rlewis

From Foot Fetishism to Necrophilia no perverted stone is left unturned .

Recensito negli Stati Uniti il 9 marzo 2018

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This Book is not for the squeamish or faint of heart. It bluntly talks about subjects such necrophilia, bestiality and incest. It provides a look at how our attitudes towards many sexual taboos have changed throughout time. Often many sexual acts we now deem as taboo were once viewed as almost normal, and vice versa. Pedophilia, homosexuality, and the age of consent, are three of the stand out topics that seemed to be more taboo now than they were in the ancient world. As for the topic of bestiality turns out this sexual fetish, is a lot more common than many, including myself would have guessed. I've read many books on sex and this one is good, but I wish it just went a little deeper into the psychological reasons people indulge in these behaviors. It does touch on some of the psychological aspects, but I just wished it went a little further. A book I thought was even better than this one on the subject of sex, was Robin Baker's, "Sperm Wars", but in today's politically correct climate, where one can't even make a sexual joke, this books is a breath of fresh raunchy air.

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Dr.Paul Heaton

Great title, indifferent content

Recensito nel Regno Unito il 3 febbraio 2014

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Most of the content can be found one any number of similar publicationss. The book is nicely presented and has glossy illustrations, but the text is decidedly "vanilla" in flavour.

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E. J. Ford

Fun history!

Recensito negli Stati Uniti il 6 dicembre 2016

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Peakman discusses the delightful and the disturbing sides of sexual practice. She reminds us of both the diversity of sexual behavior and the essentially arbitrary nature of past and present limitations on it. She concludes with an ethical approach to sexual practice: consent, protection of the vulnerable, and consistency with regard to age of consent. This is a refreshing review of these intriguing issues.

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