Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Acknowledgments ix
4. Introduction: Whose Sexual Revolution? 1
5. Chapter one. A Thousand Modes of Venery: Coital Positions as Actions and Communications 31
6. Chapter two. Voluptuary Architecture: Organizing, Policing, and Producing Pleasure 81
7. Chapter three. Sodomy and Reason: Making Sense of the Libertine Preference 128
8. Chapter four. “the obscene organ of brute pleasure”: Social Functions of the Clitoris 170
9. Chapter five. The Fury of Her Kindness: What Should a Libertine Know About Orgasm? 200
10. Chapter six. Color and Caprice: The Politics and Aesthetics of Interracial Relations 230
11. Chapter seven. Canonizing Sade: Eros, Democracy, and Differentiation 263
12. Notes 299
13. Index 377