Result of a seminar at the Ecole des hautes études en sciences sociales, 1979-1980.
Translation of: Sexualités occidentales.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
The conditions of sexual evolution / Robin Fox -- The battle for chastity / Michel Foucault -- Homosexuality in ancient Rome / Paul Veyne -- St. Paul and the flesh / Philippe Ariès -- Male homosexuality -or happiness in the ghetto / Michael Pollak -- Thoughts on the history of homosexuality / Prostitution, sex and society in French towns in the fifteenth century / Jacques Rossiaud -- Eroticism and social groups in sixteenth-century Venice : the courtesan / Achillo Olivieri -- Two English women in the seventeenth century : notes for anatomy of feminine desire / Angeline Goreau -- Sex in married life in the early Middle Ages : the church's teaching and behavioural reality / Jean-Louis Flandrin -- Love in married life / The indissoluble marriage / The extra-marital union today / André Béjin -- Changing sexual behaviour in French youth gangs / Hubert Lafont -- The decline of the psycho-analyst and the rise of the sexologist / The influence of the sexologists and sexual democracy / André Béjin