Studying this means:
- reading historical essays;
- reading theoretical essays;
- reading practical essays;
- reading classics.
Historical essays
- Sylvie Steinberg (ed.), Une histoire des sexualités, 2018, French.
- Jean-Louis Flandrin, Le sexe et l’Occident. Évolution des attitudes et des comportements, 1981, French.
- Christian-Georges Schwentzel, Le Nombril d’Aphrodite. Une histoire érotique de l’Antiquité, 2019, French.
- Claude Calame (ed.), L’amore in Grecia, 1983, Italian.
- Claude Calame, I Greci e l’Eros. Simboli, pratiche e luoghi, 1992, Italian.
- Géraldine Puccini, La vie sexuelle à Rome, 2007, French.
- M. Pelaja and L. Scaraffia, Due in una carne. Chiesa e sessualità nella storia, 2008, Italian.
- Jean-Louis Flandrin, Un temps pour embrasser. Aux origines de la morale sexuelle occidentale (VIe-XIe siècle), 1983, French.
- Didier Lett, Viols d’enfants au Moyen Âge, 2021, French.
- Scarlett Beauvalais, Histoire de la sexualité à l’époque moderne, 2010, French.
- Jean-Louis Flandrin, Les amours paysannes (XVIe-XIXe siècle), 1975, French.
Theoretical essays
- Richard von Krafft-Ebing, Psychopathia Sexualis, 1886, German.
- Havelock Ellis, Studies in the Psychology of Sex, 1897–1928, English.
- Sigmund Freud, Drei Abhandlungen zur Sexualtheorie [Three Essays on the Theory of Sexuality], 1905, German.
- Wilhelm Reich, Die Sexualität im Kulturkampf [The Sexual Revolution], 1936, German.
- Erich Fromm, The Art of Loving, 1957, English.
- Albert Ellis, The Art and Science of Love, 1960, English.
- Albert Ellis, Sex and the Single Man, 1963, English.
- Albert Ellis, Sex Without Guilt in the 21st Century, 2003, English.
- John Gray, Men are from Mars, Women are from Venus, 1992, English.
- D. Easton and J. Hardy, The Ethical Slut. A Guide to Infinite Sexual Possibilities, 1997, English.
- Diego Fusaro, Il nuovo ordine erotico. Elogio dell’amore e della famiglia, 2018, Italian.
- Edoardo Lombardi Vallauri, Ancora bigotti. Gli italiani e la morale sessuale, 2020, Italian.
- Elia Scattolon, L’errore fondamentale della sessuologia, 2021, Italian.
Classics
- Plato, Συμπόσιον [Symposium], c. 385–370 BC, Ancient Greek.
- Plato, Φαῖδρος [Phaedrus], c. 370 BC, Ancient Greek.
- Vatsyayana, कामसूत्र [Kama Sutra], II-III century, Sanskrit.
- Al Nefzawi, الروض العاطر في نزهة الخاطر [The Perfumed Garden], XV century, Arabic.
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