Kinky History: A Rollicking Journey through Our Sexual Past, Present, and Future Hardcover – June 18, 2024
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A provocative journey through human sexual history, packed with fun factoids and forgotten stories, from the historian and storyteller behind Kinky History, @esme.louisee on TikTokContrary to popular belief, our predecessors had all sorts of obscene hobbies long before Christian Greyhit the scene. In this enlightening romp, learn about the first instances of homosexuality on record from the ancient world and the diverse history of nonbinary gender encounter a thousand years’ worth of hilarious and horrifying contraceptive methods consider the positive and negative effects of the widespread availability of pornography in the digital age—and how our relationship to it changed during the pandemic take a sneaky riffle through centuries of bedside drawers and discover the dirty little secrets of luminaries such as Julius Caesar, James Joyce, Albert Einstein, and Virginia Woolf. Esmé Louise James also identifies the key tipping points that directly inform current beliefs around sex to place the past in conversation with the present. By educating ourselves about the weird, wonderful, and varied spectrum of
human sexuality and experience, we can normalize and destigmatize sex, write people of marginalized sexual identities back into the pages of history, and build toward a more liberated future.