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Sex: A Modern History

Professor Joanna Bourke · Gresham College

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About

Sex manuals can incite revolution. In the early 1970s a feminist collective released Our Bodies, Ourselves (1970) while 'free love' proponent Dr. Alex Comfort published The Joy of Sex (1972). Both manuals have been read and updated and republished many times. What do changes in the advice given in these and other manuals tell us about the way sexual mores and practices have shifted between the 1970s and the present? What factors contribute to changes in ideas about sexual pleasure?

Lectures

  1. Pleasure 2021-10-07 · YouTube
  2. Perversion 2021-11-11 · YouTube
  3. Pornography 2022-01-06 · YouTube
  4. Sex Work 2022-02-17 · YouTube
  5. Monogamy 2022-03-17 · YouTube
  6. Abstinence 2022-05-12 · YouTube

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Institution
Gresham College
Speaker
Professor Joanna Bourke
Year
2021
Level
For everyone
Language
English
Subjects
Biology, Society and politics, History, Literature and writing
Source
Gresham College
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