I do feel like it could have been a little bit substantial in some ways, such as with a discussion on pornography and a deeper dive into sex work. Which is odd. I do feel like it could have been a little bit substantial in some ways, such as with a discussion on pornography and a deeper dive into sex work. How do I rate this higher than five stars? A Curious History of Sex by Whores of Yore owner, Dr. Kate Lister is a book I'd recommend to anyone interested in learning more about people and sex.A Curious History of Sex by Whores of Yore owner, Dr. Kate Lister is a book I'd recommend to anyone interested in learning more about people and sex.A collection of historical essays, each on an aspect of sexuality in the context of history. Based on the popular research project Whores of Yore, and written with her distinctive humour and wit, A Curious History of Sex draws upon Dr Kate Lister's extensive knowledge of sex history. Anyone who has asked me an innocent question about domestic history (and faced the repercussions when subjected to a lecture complete with slides about stuff like chamber pots) knows I love a good romp through the olden days. She has her finger on (or perhaps in?) A nice balance of sorting the truth from the myths, and fun ridiculous history.
There are people, for instance, who get aroused by the sun. Anyone who has asked me an innocent question about domestic history (and faced the repercussions when subjected to a lecture complete with slides about stuff like chamber pots) knows I love a good romp through the olden days. There, I said it, the challenge is out there.
...""Inge’s War is a worthy addition to the growing canon of literature by and about the Vertriebene...""MacKeown’s biography is a fine attempt to explain a complex figure...""There is much that enlivens and engrosses here....""Jones takes the reader through a history of medical malpractice,...""It feels that Boin is eager to preach the story of Alaric as a parable for our intolerant age...""The man himself lies in an unmarked grave – which he requested – in a church under the flight path to Heathrow. If she ever tires of being an academic historian she might try stand-up comedy. There’s a lot of gory details in here, so please bring your strongest stomachs when you read this one. Or telling everyone the curious fact you've just learnt.
A fascinating chapter, Colonising the Cunt, uncovers layer on layer of oppression almost too horrific to see collected in one place – black women and men displayed to a gaping public like zoo animals, a pseudo-scientific gloss applied on top. So a wife might increase her husband’s ardency by keeping a live fish in her vagina for two days, then roasting it and feeding it to him.
But much of the significance of food, especially in the early modern period, was not its erotic redolence but its mediating role in the bewitchery of carnal urges.
It is a really light book, a lot of the chapters are surprisingly short. These essays are about the concept of 'whore', male sex work, douching, pubic hair, and so on. Spend another
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.
But she’d have to remember to mill it in the opposite direction to the sun, whatever that means.At the point at which bicycles were adopted by vanguard feminists as a source of liberation – the American suffragette Susan B Anthony said they had “done more to emancipate women than anything else in the world” – they simultaneously started to feature heavily in pornography. Lister covers everything from contraception to bicycles, all in an accessible and conversational style.Kate Lister's A Curious History of Sex is a lively, jokey look at all things sex. This glances towards an original and rather buoying notion about men, women, desire and the patriarchy. Lister covers everything from contraception to bicycles, all in an accessible and conversational style.I've been waiting for this book pretty much since it was first announced.
There's a lot of it about. I think there's something about this book which is very British - I can't really imagine anyone from another culture writing about sex in this way.
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.