The History of Sexuality (French: L'Histoire de la sexualité) is a four-volume study of sexuality in the Western world by the French historian and philosopher...

The social construction of human sexuality and sexual behavior—along with its taboos, regulation, and social and political impact—has had a profound effect...

all. The seeming contradictions of Indian attitudes towards sex (more broadly – sexuality) can be best explained through the context of history. India...

sexual license" was characteristic of ancient Rome, but sexuality was not excluded as a concern of the mos maiorum, the traditional social norms that affected...

Medieval female sexuality is the collection of sexual and sensual characteristics identified in a woman from the Middle Ages. Like a modern woman, a medieval...

over the history of sexuality. The sexual stimulation of one's own genitals has been interpreted variously by different religions, and has been the subject...

The Journal of the History of Sexuality is a peer-reviewed academic journal established in 1990 and published by the University of Texas Press. The Journal...

many historical writings and records focusing primarily on men. Women's sexuality in ancient Mesopotamia is not well documented. Stephanie Lynn Budin, writing...

points out that the history of sexuality is not solely the history of different-sex sexuality plus the history of same-sex sexuality, but a broader conception...

maleness and femaleness were not closely linked to sexuality in China. Michel Foucault's The History of Sexuality (which deals primarily with Western civilization...