Julie Peakman teaches at Birkbeck College, University of London, UK. Her recent books include Lascivious Bodies: A Sexual History of the Eighteenth Century and Mighty Lewd Books: The Development of Pornography in Eighteenth-Century England. She has also edited Sexual Perversions, 1670–1890, eight volumes of Whore’s Bibliographies 1680 –1815, and is currently writing a sexual history of the world.

• PrefaceSeries AcknowledgementsAcknowledgements List of Illustrations1 IntroductionJulie Peakman, Birkbeck College, University of London, UK2 Heterosexuality: Europe and North AmericaAnna Clark, University of Minnesota, USA3 HomosexualityRictor Norton, Independent Scholar, UK4 Sexual VariationsMarianna Muravyeva, University of Helsinki, Finland5 Sex, Religion and the LawMerril D. Smith, Independent Scholar, USA6 Sex, Medicine and Disease George Rousseau, University of Oxford, UK7 Sex, Popular Beliefs and CultureHeike Bauer, Birkbeck Institute of Gender and Sexuality, UK8 ProstitutionRandolph Trumbach, City University of New York, USA9 Erotica: Representing Sex in the Eighteenth CenturyKatherine Crawford, Vanderbilt University, USANotes Bibliography Contributors Index

Julie Peakman teaches at Birkbeck College, University of London, UK. Her recent books include Lascivious Bodies: A Sexual History of the Eighteenth Century and Mighty Lewd Books: The Development of Pornography in Eighteenth-Century England. She has also edited Sexual Perversions, 1670–1890, eight volumes of Whore’s Bibliographies 1680 –1815, and is currently writing a sexual history of the world.

• PrefaceSeries AcknowledgementsAcknowledgements List of Illustrations1 IntroductionJulie Peakman, Birkbeck College, University of London, UK2 Heterosexuality: Europe and North AmericaAnna Clark, University of Minnesota, USA3 HomosexualityRictor Norton, Independent Scholar, UK4 Sexual VariationsMarianna Muravyeva, University of Helsinki, Finland5 Sex, Religion and the LawMerril D. Smith, Independent Scholar, USA6 Sex, Medicine and Disease George Rousseau, University of Oxford, UK7 Sex, Popular Beliefs and CultureHeike Bauer, Birkbeck Institute of Gender and Sexuality, UK8 ProstitutionRandolph Trumbach, City University of New York, USA9 Erotica: Representing Sex in the Eighteenth CenturyKatherine Crawford, Vanderbilt University, USANotes Bibliography Contributors Index