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Imagining sex : pornography and bodies in seventeenth-century England

'Imagining Sex' examines a variety of material from 17th century England to argue that, unlike today, pornography was not a discrete genre, nor was it usually subject to suppression. The book explores contemporary thinking on these issues and wider cultural concerns
Print Book, English, 2007
Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2007
Student Collection
ix, 323 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
9780199209149, 0199209146
154707943
The circulation of texts: publishers and readers
'What a fountain of joys': reproduction and sexual pleasure
'New from battersy': fantasies of sexual flagellation
'An extraordinary satisfaction': imagining homosexuality
'Erotopolis': voyeurism and the illusion of privacy
'Unexpected bed fellows': the comic and the erotic
'The naked truth': images of bodies and sex