Table of Contents

Cover

Themes in History

Title page

Copyright page

List of Images

Acknowledgements

Introduction: Sex before Sexuality

1 Sin

2 Before Heterosexuality

3 Between Men

4 Between Women

5 Before Pornography

Epilogue: Sex at Sea?

Index

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1 Paul the Hermit Sees a Christian Tempted

2 Hugo van der Goes, Diptychon mit Sündenfall und Erlösung (Beweinung Christi)

3 Les Amants Trépassés

4 Coffret (Minnekästchen)

5 Lorenzo Lotto, Signor Marsilio Cassotti and His Wife, Faustina

6 Raphael (Raffaello Sanzio of Urbino), Self Portrait with a Friend.

7 Fra Carnevale (Bartolomeo di Giovanni Corradini), Presentation of the Virgin in the Temple.

8 Jacob van Loo, Diana and Her Nymphs

9 Gabrielle d’Estrees and Her Sister, the Duchess of Villars

10 Romano, Giulio (Giulio Pippi) (?), Love Scene

11 Misericord of man with open legs in the air

12 Baron Jean-Baptiste Regnault, A Phallic Rite

13 John Keyes Sherwin, A Dance in Otaheite

14 Samuel Middiman, An Offering Before Capt. Cook in the Sandwich Islands

We would like to thank the editors at Polity Press for their patience and enthusiasm for the project; Louis Gerdelan and (eagle-eyed) Nina Attwood for expert research assistance; Lisa Bailey for help on late antique and early medieval scholarship; Erin Griffey for her art history expertise; the Faculty of Arts at the University of Auckland for the Faculty Research Development Fund which enabled one of us (Phillips) to find the time to work on the project; our Head of Department, Malcolm Campbell; Sherry Velasco and Marta Vicente for allowing us to draw on their forthcoming publications; our respective partners, Athina Tsoulis and John Bevan-Smith, for their interest and emotional support, and to John for generously compiling the index; and University of Auckland students in courses on the history of sex for enlivening our teaching experience over several years.