Julie Peakman lectures at Oxford Brookes University and is an honorary fellow of the Wellcome Trust Centre, UCL where she gained her PhD under the supervision of Roy Porter. Her previous book Mighty Lewd Books: The Development of Pornography in Eighteenth-Century England was published in 2003. Lascivious Bodies was published by Atlantic Books in 2005. She lives in London and on the Greek island of Leros.

"'A jolly and Informative book, nicely produced... soundly researched and spiced with lurid details. Her descriptions bring a period of unbridled sexual appetite roaring to life.' Miranda Seymour, Sunday Times; 'Oh my. Don't I get the julcy jobs?... Every [other] sexual diversion is on display, every taboo and curlosity... Peakman is an energetic researcher... Lascivious Bodies makes today's swingers look very tame.' Edwina Currie, New Statesman"

Julie Peakman lectures at Oxford Brookes University and is an honorary fellow of the Wellcome Trust Centre, UCL where she gained her PhD under the supervision of Roy Porter. Her previous book Mighty Lewd Books: The Development of Pornography in Eighteenth-Century England was published in 2003. Lascivious Bodies was published by Atlantic Books in 2005. She lives in London and on the Greek island of Leros.

"'A jolly and Informative book, nicely produced... soundly researched and spiced with lurid details. Her descriptions bring a period of unbridled sexual appetite roaring to life.' Miranda Seymour, Sunday Times; 'Oh my. Don't I get the julcy jobs?... Every [other] sexual diversion is on display, every taboo and curlosity... Peakman is an energetic researcher... Lascivious Bodies makes today's swingers look very tame.' Edwina Currie, New Statesman"