Amatory Pleasures Explorations in Eighteenth-Century Sexual Culture

includes index and biblioraphy

1. Norms and Anomalies ........1 Continuities and Change in Sexual Behaviour and Attitudes from the Eighteenth Century .............3 Perversion of the Course of Nature: Sexual Variations in the Eighteenth Century ........17 Blaming and Shaming in Eighteenth- and Early nineteenth - Century print Culture............41 2. Erotic Women : Fact and Fiction ..........59 Whore biographies in the eighteenth Century ..........61 Memoirs of Women of Pleasure : Autobiograpies ..............79 Initiation, Defloration and Flagellation : Sexual propensities in Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure ..........101 The best Freind in the world : The Relationship between Emma Hamilton and Queen Maria Carolina of Naples ..............113 3. Exploring bodies .......131 Bodily Anxieties in Enlightenment Sex Literature ...........133 Medicine, the body and the botanical Sexual Metaphor in Erotica .........145 The Eighteenth-Century Erotic Garden ........159