Sexual Century: How Private Passion Became a Public Obsession

by Tom Hickman

The Sexual Century' tells the intriguing, revealing and often surprising story of human sexuality over the past hundred years. Ignorance and repression were rife at the beginning of the century and at the end of it we appear to be sexually free. [This book] looks at what has influenced and shaped such a dramatic change in sexual perceptions and activities. Every aspect of twentieth-century sexual experience is probed, including the influence of mass media, the impact of global war, the surge in women's and gay rights, the advent of the Pill and AIDS. Through the words of the sexual pioneers, historians, celebrities, sexual icons, and ordinary people, the shifting attitudes toward sexuality throughout the century are recorded in vivid detail. 'The Sexual Century' provides a fascinating, informative and highly visual guide to a century of sexploration.

Genres: Nonfiction, Sexuality, History

256 pages, Paperback

First published October 28, 2002

About the author

Tom Hickman has worked as features writer, features editor and editor on various national magazines, newspapers and for the BBC.