ABSTRACT
When the historiography of studies of sexuality is analysed, both Sigmund Freud and Michel Foucault soon make an appearance, and indeed their scientific contributions are indisputable. This chapter explains about modernization theory and its impact upon the writings and research of historians around the world on such themes as sexuality and emotions. It explores the discussion of sex with the aid of this grand narrative, and explains how it has affected the understanding of the history of sexuality. Scholars working with modernization theory propound changes after about 1750, or at the end of the early modern period. In the latest publications on sex and other physical relations between people of all sexes, the views of the modernization theorists have been changed further, or even utterly refuted. In brief, the emphasis may be said to be on varied and multifarious forms of sexual activity at all periods.
