![]() ![]() These changing views of the sex act thus constantly shifted the way each individual viewed his or her own sexuality and that of others. As industrialized society grew to favor the nuclear family, sex started to morph out of a religious context that saw it as evil into an act solely for the consummation of marriage and production of children into something from which both the male and the female could experience pleasure. “Heterosexual” as a word didn’t make it into print until a writer named Karl Maria Kertbeny included it in a letter written May 6, 1868. The book begins with a look at the culture of urbanization in the early 19th century and how this changed concepts of the family, religion, and society all of this provides the background against which Blank sketches the developing view of “heterosexual.” This is not, in other words, pop science, and is consequently not always an easy read. In addition to being a writer, Blank is a historian, and the book is composed of the high-concept sentences and occasional academic language one would expect. ![]() ![]() Thus begins Blank’s dense, detail-packed tome. ![]()
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