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Sex customs in literature

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The cryptic figure of the cinaedus recurs in both the literature and daily life of the Roman world. His afterlife – the equally cryptic catamite – appears to be well and alive as late as Victorian England. But who was the cinaedus ? Should we think of a real group of individuals, or is the term but a scare name to keep at bay any form of threating otherness? This book, the first coherent collection of essays on the topic, addresses the matter and fleshes out the complexity of a debate that concerns not only Roman cinaedi but the foundations of our theoretical approach to the study of ancient sexuality.

Sex customs --- Sex --- Homosexuality --- Sex customs in literature

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Erotic stories, Latin --- Sex customs in literature. --- History and criticism. --- Petronius Arbiter. --- Rome --- In literature.

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During the reign of Isabel II, the new Spanish novel was born, inspired by the deep fracture between public morality and private life. In the middle of the European debate on the legalization or abolition of the carnal trade, the infamous woman emerges as a modern heroine, specifically the prostitute, a symbol of the evils that afflict contemporary society. The presence of the public woman in the popular narrative will give rise to a well-established brothel current that will legitimize the incursion of literature into the spaces of private life and into the silenced female sexuality, a necessary fertilizer for the birth of the 20th century Spanish erotic novel.

Sex customs in literature. --- Spanish fiction --- Sex customs. --- History and criticism. --- Customs, Sex --- Human beings --- Sexual behavior --- Sexual practices --- Manners and customs --- Moral conditions --- Sex --- Prostitutes in literature.

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Can sexual restraint be good for you? Many Victorians thought so. This book explores the surprisingly positive construction of sexual restraint in an unlikely place: late nineteenth-century Decadence. Reading Decadent texts alongside Victorian writing about sexual health, including medical literature, adverts, advice books, and periodical articles, it identifies an intellectual Paterian tradition of sensuous continence, in which 'healthy' pleasure is distinguished from its 'harmful' counterpart. Recent work on Decadent sexuality concentrates on transgression and subversion, with restraint interpreted ahistorically as evidence of repression/sublimation or queer coding. Here Sarah Green examines the work of Walter Pater, Lionel Johnson, Vernon Lee, and George Moore to outline a co-extensive alternative approach to sexuality where restraint figured as a productive part of the 'aesthetic life', or a practical ethics shaped by aesthetic principles. Attending to this tradition reveals neglected connections within and beyond Decadence, bringing fresh perspective to its late nineteenth- and twentieth-century reception.

English literature --- Sexual abstinence in literature. --- Sexual ethics in literature. --- Sex customs in literature. --- Decadence (Literary movement) --- Literary movements --- Literature, Modern --- History and criticism. --- History and criticism