 |  | | | Sexual advice | 15 Nov 2005 | | |
2000 years of the serious and bizarre
In his book, The Science of a New Life published in 1888, Dr John Cowan said that tight hair buns and corsets caused women unnatural excitement. At the same time, women were beginning to criticize the existing sexual arrangements within society as being for the benefit of men only.
Jenni is joined by Dr Lesley Hall who has edited an anthology of women's writing on sex and John Naish, author of Put What Where, to discuss the sexual advice written for and about women over the past 2000 years.
Outspoken women – an anthology of women’s writing on sex 1870-1969, edited by Lesley Hall is available from Routledge, ISBN: 0415253721
Lesley Hall's Sex, gender and social change in Britain since 1880, is available fromPalgrave Macmillan, ISBN:0333650530
John Naish's Put What Where - over 2000 years of bizarre sex advice, is available from Harper Element, ISBN:0007214235
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