Chad Denton lives in Lynchburg, Virginia.

• Table of ContentsAcknowledgments deletexiPrefaceIntroductionI. The TorahSex and PurityLeviticus 18:22 and 20:13Female Sexuality and Its Male VictimsII. Ancient Greece and the First SexologistsOld-Fashioned Greek ValuesHomer and Hesiod, Sappho and AchillesThe Greeks Contemplate PederastySex, Honor and HybrisIII. The Decadent Past, from Alexander the Great to AntinuousSex in the Hellenistic WorldWhen Romans Were RomansFornication, Marriage and Scandal under the RepublicImperial InterventionsPerverts and ProstitutesCelibacy and Sex for PleasurePunishing Desire in the AfterlifeIV. Rise of a New OrderWhen East Meets WestSex and the New TestamentThe Church Fathers versus SexSex under the Late Roman EmpireEscaping the WorldV. The War on SinJustinian I and the End of AntiquitySex under Irish and Welsh LawSex under Germanic LawChoosing HolinessImposing HolinessThe Islamic AlternativeVI. Medieval RigidnessTriumph of the ChurchThe Theology of SexJews in a Christian WorldOn the Frontier: Scandinavia and Slavic EuropeSex and (Imagined) LoveCivilization’s SewerInvasion of the SodomitesSinners DefiantSavonarola’s FlorenceVII. The Sensual Empire: Turkey, 1453–1800Sharia Law, Civil Law and SexBeardless YouthsIn the HaremThe War on ProstitutionVIII. Reforming and ReaffirmingThe Reformers versus SexSex in Protestant EuropeHeaven on Earth: Calvin’s Geneva and Cromwell’s EnglandSex in Catholic and Orthodox EuropeThe Radicals of the ReformationThe Erotic Side of the Printing PressDeporting MoralsRationalizing SexIX. Enlightened Bedrooms, 1700–1814The Philosophes Debate SexThe Age of DecadenceThe Age of ReformTribads and MollysThe Pornographic UndergroundSex under the First Republic and NapoleonX. A Brave New WorldA Bourgeois MentalityImposing DecencyInvasion of the InvertsIndecency for Mass ConsumptionThe Science of SexRadicals versus (or for) SexEpilogue: The ThawChapter NotesBibliographyIndex