From the front flap of this 558 page "Sex as pleasure, sex as sin, sex as ritual - 'Sexualia' reveals what sex really a multifarious, adaptable and constantly mutating phenomenon. Since the prehistory of mankind gender-relations have evoked a maze of questions and triggered endless theories and hypotheses. However, the conscious investigation of sexuality across cultures, classes, and academic disciplines, as presented in [this book] has only recently taken place. In this book an international team of authors - ethnologists, sexologists, sociologists, and art scholars - have documented sexuality in a kaleidoscopic manner, exploring all aspects of this ever-fascinating from the physical nuts-and-bolts to sexual behavior both 'standard' and bizarre, from the gods of the ancient world to cybersex in the computer age. The informative text is illuminated with a wealth of remarkable pictures and images which reveal previously unrecognized intercultural links. Stopping spec
Clifford Bishop Pořadí knih (chronologicky)






Recounts legends and tales from the middle ages, including stories of heroes, maidens, outlaws, and rebels.
The Diamond Path
- 144 stránek
- 6 hodin čtení
A dramatic series that captures, culture by culture, the information that never makes it into the history books: strange stories, mystic rites, angry gods, vision quests.
Der Geist des Jaguars. Südamerika
- 143 stránek
- 6 hodin čtení
Lidský duch a sexualita
- 184 stránek
- 7 hodin čtení
Kniha předkládá přehledně uspořádané informace o roli a významu sexu z celé škály tradic a kultur, předkládá mnohá závažná, k zamyšlení provokující témata a je strhujícím pojednáním o vztazích mezi pohlavím a lidským duchem. Publikace je bohatě vybavena ilustracemi ze současného i starého umění.