Introduction: The Magnetic Poetry Kit of Sex Part One: Did the ancient Greeks accept love, desire and relationships between men? Introduction
1. Guilia Sissa, Sex and Sensuality in the Ancient World
2. "Against Timarchus." From Aeschines Part Two: Was Jesus a queer eunuch? Introduction
3. Putting Jesus in His Place: A Radical Vision of Household and Kingdom Halvor Moxnes 4. Jesus on Sexuality Part Three: Did the medieval and early modern Islamic world accept men who had sex with male youths? Introduction
5. Before Homosexuality in the Arab-Islamic World, 1500-1800 Khaled El-Rouayheb
6. A Book Containing the Risala Known as the Dove's Neck-Ring About Love and Lovers Abu Muhammad Ali Ibn Hazm Al-Andalusi Part Four: Are sexual morality and sexual prohibitions universal, or should they vary by culture? Introduction
7. An Ethics of Cultural Exchange: Diderot's 'Supplement Au Voyage De Bougainville' Claudia Moscovici
8. Diderot, Supplement to the Voyage of Bougainville Part Five: Were Victorians sexually repressed? Introduction
9. The Long Sexual Revolution: English Women, Sex, and Contraception 1800-1975 Hera Cook
10. Aristotle’s Masterpiece
11. Handbook of Dr. Kahn’s Museum Part Six: Was women’s desire for each other compatible with Victorian marriage? Introduction
12. Between Women: Friendship, Desire, and Marriage in Victorian England Sharon Marcus
13. I know My Own Heart Anne Lister Part Seven: How were definitions of prostitution influenced by race, and were experts able to control prostitution? Introduction
14. Prostitution, Race and Politics: Venereal Disease and the British Empire Phillipa Levine
15. An Enquiry into the Causes of the Great Sanitary Failure of the State Regulation of Social Vice Joseph Edmondson Part Eight: Did sexologists impose definitions of homosexuality on men and women who desired those of the same sex? Introduction
16. Stepchildren of Nature: Krafft-Ebing, Psychiatry, and the Making of Sexual Identity Harry Oosterhuis
17. Psychopathia Sexualis Richard Krafft-Ebing Part Nine: The problem of heterosexuality. Could men and women find happiness together? Introduction
18. 'A Dark, Impenetrable Wall of Complete Incomprehension': The Impossibility of Heterosexual Love in Imperial Germany Edward Ross Dickinson
19. The Sexual Crisis; a Critique of Our Sex Life Grete Meisel-Hess Part Ten: Did Europeans impose foreign sexual mores on Africans, or were they trying to protect women? Introduction
20. Jomo Kenyatta, Marie Bonaparte and Bronislaw Malinowski on Clitoridectomy and Female Sexuality Bodil Folke Frederiksen
21. Facing Mount Kenya Jomo Kenyatta
22. Duchess of Atholl and Eleanor Rathbone’s speech Part Eleven: The politics of birth control and abortion Introduction
22. Cultures of Abortion in Weimar Cornelia Osborne
23. Abortion and Sterilization in Denmark Dr. J. Leunbach Part Twelve: Were 60s feminists pro or anti sex? Introduction
24. The Redstocking Movement: Sex, Love, and Politics in 1968 Lynn Walter
26. I Accuse! Mette Ejlersen Part Thirteen: Does regulating prostitution protect or punish women who sell sex? Introduction
27. Through the Prism of Prostitution: Conceptions of Women and Sexuality in Sweden at Two Fins-De-Siecle Yvonne Svanstrom
28. Temporarily Yours: Intimacy, Authenticity, and the Commerce of Sex Elizabeth Bernstein