A History of Sexual Customs

by Richard Lewinsohn

Dr. Richard Lewinsohn has taken the subject of sex and, instead of leering, jeering or crudely joking about the subject, he take a scholarly approach that is informative and tries to explain how humans cope with sex; how sexual mores have changed from historic times to the present; sexual diseases and sexual differences. This is information and it should be read as such. It de-mystifies many myths and corrects misconception, fallacies and ignorance.

Genres: History

512 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1956

Reviews

[Coco Smit · Rating 5 out of 5]

I found this in a secondhand shop. It such an old book and I didn't expect anything of it, just liked the cover and wanted to have it in my sex book collection. Kind of started reading it for fun. But it was actually really good and lovely written. Simultaneously I was reading Stephanie Coontz's Marriage, a History and I actually liked this book better than her book. Certainly Coontz book is very well researched and had a lot of meat but it was more about the last few decades and well, marriage, as suspected.

This book is more about sexual relationships in general throughout human history. And because it wasn't only about marriage it could tell us more about how else people had sex, flirted and had extramarital escapades. Definitely a whole lot of fun and some juicy stuff in this book.

[Bosniak · Rating 5 out of 5]

Best book that details the history of sexus from the begining of time to 1956.

[Moyokoyani Armando · Rating 3 out of 5]

Está bastante simpático, tiene datos históricos interesantes, y nos permite ver la concepción de la sexualidad de los años 60 y la manera en que los acontecimientos históricos se interpretaban.

[Bara · Rating 3 out of 5]

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[R.E. Bradshaw · Rating 4 out of 5]

Dated but interesting