Explores the important aspects of popular cultures during the period 1550 to 1750. Barry Reay investigates the dominant beliefs and attitudes across...
The concept of sex addiction took hold in the 1980s as a product of cultural anxiety. Yet, despite being essentially mythical, sex addiction has to be...
Sexuality in modern western culture is central to identity but the tendency to define by sexuality does not apply to the premodern past. Before the...