A new book by journalist Olga Kolobova and historian Valery Ivanov, behind the pseudonym Oleg Ivik, authors of the curious History of Weddings (Text, 2009), offers a historical overview of sexual relations.
A new book by journalist Olga Kolobova and historian Valery Ivanov, behind the pseudonym Oleg Ivik, authors of the curious History of Weddings (Text, 2009), offers a historical overview of sexual relations. And, more narrowly, sexual precepts and taboos in several of the largest civilizations in Eurasia, from the laws of Mesopotamia carved on clay tablets to the 1920s Soviet pamphlet The Twelve Sexual Commandments of the Revolutionary Proletariat. Ancient East, Greece, Rome, India, China, Japan, Judaism, Christianity, secular Europe – any of these chapters, as the authors rightly admit, could be turned into a separate thick volume. Here, the most general information and the most curious facts about the sexual practices, freedoms and restrictions of different peoples are selected, which gives, on the one hand, a general picture of the sexual history of mankind, and on the other hand, the possibility of comparing different cultures.
LOMONOSOV, 288 p.