Amatory Pleasures

Encompassing the long 18th century <i>Amatory Pleasures</i> examines a broad and enticing variety of topics in the history of sexuality in Georgian times. It includes discussion of sexual perversion criminal conversation erotic gardens gentlemen's homosocial 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. Julie Peakman draws connections between these pieces and situates them within current debates and examines how Georgian sexual activity was integrated from low life and high places from brothels to palaces.<br/><br/>Aimed at anyone interested in gender history of sexuality sex literature and 18th-century history <i>Amatory Pleasures</i> is an invaluable collection of the work of a key scholar in the field.