In fact, it is a strange idea to write a weighty volume about the history of orgasm: orgasm is also orgasm in the XNUMXth century. But the French are just not allowed.
In fact, it is a strange idea to write a weighty volume about the history of orgasm: orgasm is also orgasm in the XNUMXth century. But the French are just not allowed. Of course, behind the spicy title is a detailed history of the morals of Europe over the past five centuries. The history of relationships in a couple. And by and large — a story about a change in a person’s self-consciousness, his views on the relationship between soul and body, male and female principles. Describing in detail how ideas about pleasure and sin changed, how fears and prohibitions arose and went into the past (or did not go away), the practice of double standards, the historian Robert Mushemble notes both the magnitude of the changes taking place before our eyes and the impossibility of accepting these changes: “ Culture consists of many layers superimposed on each other. The new layer does not cancel the possibilities of the previous ones, innovations do not destroy centuries-old traditions in an instant. The book is based on scientific research by psychologists, sexologists and sociologists in America and Europe.
New Literary Review, 512 p.