ABSTRACT

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.

part |598 pages

Sex and Sex Worship

chapter |5 pages

Sex

chapter |9 pages

Modern Religion

chapter |6 pages

Other Beliefs

chapter |13 pages

How Old is Mankind?

chapter |1 pages

How Many Races of Men?

chapter |3 pages

Primitive Man

chapter |49 pages

Nature of Sex

chapter |6 pages

Cosmogonies

chapter |10 pages

The “Days” of Genesis

chapter |3 pages

The Bible of the Greeks

chapter |1 pages

Babylonian Account op Creation

(About 3800 B.C.)

chapter |2 pages

Brahmanic Ideas

chapter |1 pages

Buddhism

chapter |14 pages

Some Other Cosmogonies

chapter |11 pages

Sex in Plants, and Totemism

chapter |12 pages

Sex in Animals

chapter |29 pages

Light On a Dark Subject

chapter |50 pages

Social Relations Op Men and Women

chapter |40 pages

Perfume For Humans

chapter |34 pages

Art and Ethics

chapter |11 pages

Art Anatomy

chapter |10 pages

Credulity

chapter |7 pages

Origin of Religious Ideas

chapter |28 pages

What are the Gods? *

chapter |18 pages

Sexual Relationships of the Gods

chapter |30 pages

Phallic Worship

chapter |22 pages

Plant Worship

chapter |9 pages

Animal Worship

chapter |24 pages

Some of the Gods

chapter |46 pages

The Eternal Feminine

chapter |14 pages

About Goddesses

chapter |12 pages

Sexual Union Among Deities

chapter |10 pages

Serpent Worship

chapter |13 pages

Worship of the Heavenly Bodies

chapter |13 pages

Phallic Festivals

chapter |5 pages

Concerning the Bacchanalia

chapter |5 pages

Water

chapter |14 pages

Is There an Immortal Soul?

chapter |4 pages

Conclusion