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This is not a comprehensive study of every sexual quirk, kink and ritual across all cultures throughout time, as that would entail writing an encyclopaedia. Rather, this is a drop in the ocean, a paddle in the shallow end of sexhistory, but I hope you will get pleasantly wet nonetheless.
The act of sex has not changed since people first worked out what went where, but the ways in which society dictates how sex is culturally understood and performed have varied significantly through the ages. Humans are the only creatures that stigmatise particular sexual practices, and sex remains a deeply divisive is sue around the world. Attitudes will change and grow – hopefully for the better – but sex will never be free of stigma or shame unless we acknowledge where it has come from.
Drawing upon extensive research from Dr Kate Lister’s Whores of Yore website and written with her distinctive humour and wit, A Curious History of Sex covers topics ranging from twentieth-century testicle thefts to Victorian doctors massaging the pelvises of their female patients, from smutty bread innuendos dating back to AD 79, to the new and controversial sex doll brothels. It is peppered with surprising and informative historical slang and illustrated by eye-opening, toe-curling and hilarious images.
Alfred de Musset relate les ébats trioliques de la comtesse Gamiani avec Fanny et Alcide. Deux nuits au cours desquelles chacun des personnages fait le récit de son initiation et de ses plus singuliers exploits d’alcôve, l’ensemble des scènes constituant une sorte d’encyclopédie des débauches.
Même si Alfred de Musset va assez loin dans ce texte, au point que nombreux sont ceux qui refusaient de croire qu'il ait pu l'écrire et qu'une rumeur courut pendant longtemps, disant que ce texte n'avait pas été écrit par ce cher Alfred, nous sommes bien loin de la pornographie bestiale, de la violence d'un Sade ou d'un Apollinaire. C'est de l'érotisme pur et dur, qui ne dérive pas, explore toutes les facettes, avec un je sais quoi de vaguement sentimental en arrière plan qui le différencie des deux auteurs précédemment cités.
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