Procreation or Pleasure: Sexual Attitudes in American History

This anthology is a study of sex roles and a history of American sexual attitudes. The articles show the variety of those attitudes over four centuries: Puritan sexuality, Victorian passionlessness, frontier adolescent virility fantasies, the spermatic economy, marital advice manuals, images of prostitution, early notions of sex education, and the effects of the Kinsey reports on modern America. The anthology is designed for classroom reading and discussion.