Written in the Flesh: A History of Desire

by Edward Shorter

Book Overview

Written in the Flesh is a history of sexual desire - a startling and provocative history of what people yearn to do sexually. It is the story of the whole body's need for sexual attention rather than simply the genitalia and their procreational function.

The desire for sexual pleasure and total body sex - that is, the expansion of sexuality from a limited focus on the face and genitals to include the entire body - is certainly not...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0802038433
• ISBN13: 9780802038432
• Release Date: August 2005
• Publisher: University of Toronto Press
• Length: 300 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 5.8" x 8.7"

Customer Reviews

Desire in the flesh

A very good history of an unusual topic by a wellnown medical historian. Suffers only somewhat from a lack of completeness