An expert in Stuart England examines the sexual lives of Britons in the seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries in this frank, informative, and revealing history.
Acclaimed Stuart historian Andrea Zuvich explores the sexual mores of Stuart Britain, including surprising beliefs, bizarre practices, and ingenious solutions for infertility, impotence, sexually transmitted diseases, and more. Along the way, she reveals much about the prevailing attitudes towards male and female sexual behavior.
Zuvich sheds light not only on the saucy love lives of the Royal Stuarts, but also on the dark underbelly of the Stuart era with histories of prostitution, sexual violence, infanticide, and sexual deviance. She looks at everything from what was considered sexually attractive to the penalties for adultery, incest, and fornication.
Sex and Sexuality in Stuart Britain touches on the fashion, food, science, art, medicine, magic, literature, love, politics, faith and superstition of the day.
- 232 pages
- English
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Sex and Sexuality in Stuart Britain
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Title
- Copyright
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Author’s Note
- Introduction
- PART ONE: SEX & SEXUALITY IN STUART BRITAIN
- Chapter 1 The Anatomy of a Stuart-era Person
- Chapter 2 How to be a Sexy Stuart!
- Chapter 3 Pornography & Erotic Literature
- Chapter 4 Prostitution: Or, Whoredom in Stuart Britain
- Chapter 5 Stuart Players & Femme Fatales
- Chapter 6 Virginity & Pre-Marital Sex: Or, Fornication!
- Chapter 7 Stuart-era Gender Roles
- Chapter 8 Stuart Marriage: Or, Legal Sex!
- Chapter 9 Contraception: Or, How to Sheathe Your Sword
- Chapter 10 Bigamy, Widowhood, & Remarriage
- Chapter 11 Deviant Sexual Practices, Part I: Same-Sex Relations
- Chapter 12 Deviant Sexual Practices, Part II: Incest, Bestiality, & Flagellation
- Chapter 13 Reproduction: Or, Ye Natural Consequences of Sexual Congress
- Chapter 14 Rape, Abortion, & Infanticide
- Chapter 15 Sexually Transmitted Illnesses: Or, Ye Curse Upon Fornicators!
- Chapter 16 Libido & Masturbation: Or, Ye Art of Self-Pleasuring
- Chapter 17 Stuart Love: Or, Ye Heart’s Delighte & Torment
- Chapter 18 Adultery & Divorce in Stuart Britain: Or, O Lamentable Sinne!
- Chapter 19 Rakes & Rogues: Or, Ye Stuart Libertine
- Chapter 20 Interracial & Interethnic Unions: Or, Exotick Sex
- PART TWO: THE SEXY STUARTS
- Chapter 21 James VI & I: Swinging Both Ways?
- Chapter 22 Charles I: Lusty but Loyal
- Chapter 23 Interregnum Intimacies: Or, Puritan Passions
- Chapter 24 Charles II & the Sexually Ravenous Restoration
- Chapter 25 James II: Or, ‘The Most Unguarded Ogler of his Time’
- Chapter 26 William & Mary: Or, Marriage Between First Cousins
- Chapter 27 Queen Anne Probably Wasn’t a Lesbian
- Chapter 28 ‘Parting is such sweet sorrow’
- Bibliography
- Notes
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