The new Alain Corbin event book. 5 years of study on everything the doctors, priests and writers have written about sex. 'br/b This book calls for the exploration of a strange country: the ‘sex life’ of a time when the word ‘sexuality’ did not appear in the dictionary, where nobody talked about homosexuality or, a fortiori, heterosexuality. while a man who suffers from the ‘need of women’ and is concerned about the arithmetic of performance, has a duty to show his virility, which he offers or imposes on a woman who has been subjected to constant disorder of meaning. Br/b of course, these beliefs from the anterior to yesterday seem to us to be as foreign as a embarkation for Cythère. But they have governed the pleasures of the bed, those of the norm and those of transgression; They have shaped desires, toys and regret. That is why this journey is worth undertaking, under the informed guidance of Alain Corbin.