The Free Love Debate, the sex psychologists, the Bright Young Things, homosexual life in the Thirties, secret sex and World War II, the Sixties and the pill, gay rights, rape laws, the impact of AIDS, the declining ideal of marriage, the new emphasis on relationships and ‘whole body sensuality’: beginning with the Edwardian theorists, like Edward Carpenter and Havelock Ellis, Cate Haste tells the history of changing sexual attitudes in twentieth-century Britain. Intimate private experience is set against well-known cases – from Lady Chatterley to Profumo, Thorpe and Archer – and against the dictates of the churches, courts and media.
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