Synopses & Reviews
Synopsis
This text, A Scientific Treatise on Sex, its Nature and Function, and its Influence on Art, Science, Architecture and Religion, contains a wealth of fascinating information on the cultural aspects of sex. Topics explored include primitive ideas about sex, religious and mythical interpretations of sex, the status of women, cosmology and sex, sex in the Greek Bible, artistic representations of sexuality, phallic worship and virgin worship. The book provides insights not only into sexual life throughout the ages but also into the particular ideas and preoccupations about sex which were current when the book was first published in 1919.
Synopsis
Sex is at the very heart of life, and this classic illustrated study of sex, its nature and function, and its influence on art, science, architecture and religion contains a wealth of information on sex beliefs, practices and worship in other cultures and periods of history stretching back to ancient times. Drawing on a wide range of sources including private collections of erotica, Wall shows how people in other times and places have dealt with the timeless themes of sexuality, male, female, love, passion, lust, desire and worship, dealing with sex as a private practice and also as public celebration.
This edition first published in 2006. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Synopsis
First published in 2006. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.