The Facts of Life: The Creation of Sexual Knowledge in Britain, 1650-1950

by Roy Porter and Lesley A. Hall

This remarkable book traces the development of sexual knowledge and guidance in Britain over three centuries. An absorbing, shocking, and often moving narrative, it investigates how views on sexual activities, sexual disorders, sexual pleasures, and sexual proprieties evolved through the years.

Roy Porter and Lesley Hall explore the moral, religious, scientific, medical, domestic, social, and cultural backgrounds of various periods in which...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0300062214
• ISBN13: 9780300062212
• Release Date: March 1995
• Publisher: Yale University Press
• Length: 428 Pages
• Weight: 2.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.5" x 6.6" x 9.6"