Rules of Desire: Sex in Britain, World War I to the Present

by Cate Haste (Author)

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  Paperback
  1994

  $3.35

  Includes sections on: the Free Love debate; the sex psychologists; the Bright Young Things; homosexual life in the 1930s; secret sex and World War II; the 1960s and the pill; gay rights; rape laws; the impact of AIDS; the declining ideal of marriage; and the new emphasis on relationships and whole body sensuality . Beginning with the Edwardian theorists, like Edward Carpenter and Havelock Ellis, Cate Haste tells the history of changing sexual attitudes in 20th-century Britain. Intimate private experience is set against well-known cases - from Lady Chatterley to Profumo, Thorpe and Archer - and against the dictates of the churches, courts and media.