The Prehistory of Sex: Four Million Years of Human Sexual Culture
Archaeologist Timothy Taylor paints a dramatic and startling picture of our sexual evolution from its beginning four million years ago to modern times. Taylor draws on recent archaeological discoveries to trace practices such as contraception, homosexuality, transsexuality, prosition, sadomasochism, and bestiality from their ancient origins to today. How has human sexuality changed -- and how has it remained the same -- over the span of millions of years? How did the ideas of eroticism, ecstasy, immortality, and beauty become linked to sex? Taylor explores these questions and demonstrates how our sexual politics -- issues of gender, power, control, and exploitation -- are deeply rooted in our prehistory. One of the most illuminating and controversial books on human sexuality ever written, The Prehistory of Sex invites readers to become voyeurs into the bizarre -- and so far hidden -- prehistoric sexual world.
