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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.
El falo es fabuloso, en el arte, en la religión, pero nadie había escrito una fábula del falo, que se sepa.El falo es una cosa de la que nunca se habla.Falo ausente es el falo que la sociedad convencional, por tenerlo tan presente, decide ignorar.(...)Con la literatura (que no es exactamente la cultura, sino quizá todo lo contrario) el púber se reconoce en el falo/Baudelaire, como lo llamamos aquí. Porque es el falo de conducta irregular y porque, probablemente, era el falo del poeta.(...)El falo, falible o no falible, siempre compensa y remedia su falibilidad mediante la fantasía. El falo tiene imaginaciones que la imaginación (racional) ignora.(...)El falo de la postmodernidad es un falo azaroso, e incluso delincuente, no ya ritual, como durante siglos, según el rito fecundante y macho de tantas culturas, según el rito sabatino de los matrimonios burgueses.(...)Frente a tanta represión no institucionalizada (la institucionalizada es lo de menos), voy a erigir aquí el caso de la mujer fálica, que no es para nada la lesbiana, sino la hembra de conducta social/sexual agresiva, macho.Y me serviré para ello, como para tantos otros temas por los que va viajando el falo en esta fábula, lo mismo de la noticia de prensa que del dato histórico o prehistórico.(Fragmentos de la Introducción a Fábula del falo)Con este ensayo lírico, alocado y postmachista —ejercicio de libertad intelectual sin precedentes—, alcanza Francisco Umbral una auténtica cima creadora/destructora.
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