Prologue: the sexual landscape of the new millennium
Sex pleasure and self-control in classical antiquity
Sinful sex: early Christianity and the problem of desire
Guilty sex, courtly love and the unruly body: medieval themes and practices
Sex, the body and desire in the pre-modern period
Pleasure and desire in the age of modernity
Obligatory pleasures and undisciplined desires: the sexual century reviewed.
Sex and pleasure in western culture by Gail Hawkes. ISBN 0745616712. Published by Polity Press in 2004. Publication and catalogue information, links to buy online and reader comments.