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"Licentious Worlds is a history of sexual attitudes and behaviour through five hundred years of empire-building around the world. In a graphic and sometimes unsettling account, Julie Peakman examines colonization and the imperial experience puttting women back in the picture, showing their role in the building of empires, but also how marginalized men and women were almost invariably exploited. Women acted as negotiators, brothel-keepers, traders and peacekeepers, but they were also oppressed, forced into marriages and raped. The book describes daily life in Turkish harems, Mughal zenanas and Japanese geisha houses, as well as in royal palaces, private households and on board ships. The stories are drawn from many sources ⁰́₃ from captains⁰́₉ logs, missionary reports and cannibals⁰́₉ memoirs to travellers⁰́₉ letters, traders⁰́₉ accounts and reports on prostitution. From debauched clerics and hog-sodomizing Pilgrims to sexually fluid cannibals and homosexual samurai, Licentious Worlds takes history where it has never been before"--

"Encompassing the long 18th century, this reader examines a broad and enticing variety of topics in the history of sexuality in Georgian times. It includes discussion of sexual perversion, erotic gardens, gentlemen's secret societies, flagellation, pornography, writings of courtesans and the world of female friendship, revealing the secret or hidden meanings circulating between mainstream and covert activities of the 18th century. Including material previously available only in academic journals, revising these for a new readership and including two completely new chapters, Julie Peakman draws connections between these pieces and situates them within current debates. Her introduction examines how the covert life of Georgian sex was integrated from low life and high places, in brothels and palaces. Aimed at undergraduate and graduate students of gender, history of sexuality, sex literature and 18th-century history, Amatory Pleasures is an invaluable reader of the work of a key scholar in the field"--

Cover; The Pleasure's All Mine; Imprint Page; Contents; Introduction; One: Taking it Straight; Two: From Onanism to Spending; Three: From Ganymedes to Gays; Four: From Female Friendships to Lipstick Lesbians; Five: From Transvestites to Transsexuals; Six: A Man's Best Friend: Bestiality; Seven: The Ties that Bind: Sadomasochism; Eight: Loving the Dead; Nine: Too Close for Comfort: Incest; Ten: Child Love or Paedophilia?; Eeleven: The Games People Play; Twelve: On Body Parts: Fellatio, Fetishism, Infibulations and Fisting; Epilogue: A Limit to Tolerance?; References; Bibliography