Sexuality and History
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Masters of Sex: The Life and Times of William Masters and Virginia Johnson, the Couple Who Taught America How to Love
by:
Thomas Maier
3.63 avg rating — 2,563 ratings 4. 
Unmentionable: The Victorian Lady's Guide to Sex, Marriage, and Manners
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Therese Oneill
3.82 avg rating — 9,083 ratings 5. 
Wolf Girls at Vassar: Lesbian & Gay Experiences 1930-1990
by:
Anne MacKay
3.94 avg rating — 68 ratings 
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Sex at Dawn: The Prehistoric Origins of Modern Sexuality
by:
Christopher Ryan
3.98 avg rating — 31,321 ratings 8. 
Sex with Kings: 500 Years of Adultery, Power, Rivalry, and Revenge
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Eleanor Herman
3.69 avg rating — 8,259 ratings 
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Orgasm and the West: A History of Pleasure from the 16th Century to the Present 3.28 avg rating — 107 ratings
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Harvard's Secret Court: The Savage 1920 Purge of Campus Homosexuals
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William Wright
3.66 avg rating — 204 ratings 
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The Hunting Ground: The Inside Story of Sexual Assault on American College Campuses
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Kirby Dick
4.05 avg rating — 146 ratings 
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Straightforward: The Narrative Construction of Heteronormativity from Homer to The Hobbit
by:
Marcus Attwater
4.14 avg rating — 7 ratings 
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Inseparable: Desire Between Women in Literature
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Emma Donoghue
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 400 ratings 20. 
Violated: Exposing Rape at Baylor University amid College Football's Sexual Assault Crisis
by:
Paula Lavigne
4.13 avg rating — 301 ratings 21. 
The Story of Sex: A Graphic History Through the Ages
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Philippe Brenot
3.97 avg rating — 1,431 ratings 22. 
When Jesus Came, the Corn Mothers Went Away: Marriage, Sexuality, and Power in New Mexico, 1500-1846 3.54 avg rating — 292 ratings
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The Birth of the Pill: How Four Crusaders Reinvented Sex and Launched a Revolution
by:
Jonathan Eig
3.98 avg rating — 3,555 ratings 
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The Worm in the Bud: The World of Victorian Sexuality
by:
Ronald Pearsall
3.71 avg rating — 82 ratings 26. 
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The Covent Garden Ladies: Pimp General Jack & The Extraordinary Story of Harris' List
by:
Hallie Rubenhold
3.70 avg rating — 2,258 ratings 27. 
The Greeks & Greek Love: A Radical Reappraisal of Homosexuality in Ancient Greece
by:
James Davidson
3.81 avg rating — 140 ratings 29. 
Sexing the Body: Gender Politics and the Construction of Sexuality 4.16 avg rating — 2,792 ratings
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Intimate Matters: A History of Sexuality in America
by:
John D'Emilio
4.06 avg rating — 1,025 ratings 
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Roots of Desire: The Myth, Meaning and Sexual Power of Red Hair
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Marion Roach
3.43 avg rating — 473 ratings 33. 
Between Women: Friendship, Desire, and Marriage in Victorian England
by:
Sharon Marcus
3.95 avg rating — 339 ratings 36. 
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On Being Different: What It Means to Be a Homosexual
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Merle Miller
4.25 avg rating — 1,274 ratings 37. 
Immodest Acts: The Life of a Lesbian Nun in Renaissance Italy
by:
Judith C. Brown
3.68 avg rating — 911 ratings 
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Straight: The Surprisingly Short History Of Heterosexuality
by:
Hanne Blank
3.78 avg rating — 1,117 ratings 40. 
Pre-Code Hollywood: Sex, Immorality, and Insurrection in American Cinema; 1930-1934
by:
Thomas Doherty
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 222 ratings 40. 
What Wild Ecstasy: The Rise and Fall of the Sexual Revolution
by:
John Heidenry
3.52 avg rating — 27 ratings 43. 
Different Daughters: A History of the Daughters of Bilitis and the Birth of the Lesbian Rights Movement
by:
Marcia M. Gallo
3.92 avg rating — 143 ratings 44. 
The Story the Soldiers Wouldn't Tell: Sex in the Civil War
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Thomas P. Lowry
3.79 avg rating — 345 ratings 45. 
Losing It: How We Popped Our Cherry Over the Last 80 Years
by:
Kate Monro
3.50 avg rating — 215 ratings 46. 
The Best of Sexology: Kinky and Kooky Excerpts from America's First Sex Magazine
by:
Craig Yoe
3.47 avg rating — 45 ratings 47. 
So Sexy So Soon: The New Sexualized Childhood, and What Parents Can Do to Protect Their Kids
by:
Diane E. Levin
3.51 avg rating — 570 ratings 48. 
Sex Between Men: An Intimate History of the Sex Lives of Gay Men Postwar to Present 3.90 avg rating — 42 ratings
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Girls and Sex: Navigating the Complicated New Landscape
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Peggy Orenstein
4.07 avg rating — 11,169 ratings 50. 
Curvy Girl Sex: 101 Body-Positive Positions to Empower Your Sex Life
by:
Elle Chase
4.39 avg rating — 132 ratings 51. 
Our Lady of Birth Control: A Cartoonist's Encounter with Margaret Sanger
by:
Sabrina Jones
3.61 avg rating — 183 ratings 52. 
Pages Passed from Hand to Hand: The Hidden Tradition of Homosexual Literature in English from 1748 to 1914
by:
Mark Mitchell
3.88 avg rating — 48 ratings 53. 
Remember Your Rubbers!: Collectible Condom Containers (A Schiffer Book for Collectors)
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G.K. Elliott
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 5 ratings 
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Rereading Sex: Battles Over Sexual Knowledge and Suppression in Nineteenth-Century America 3.78 avg rating — 85 ratings
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Battling Pornography: The American Feminist Anti-Pornography Movement, 1976–1986 3.50 avg rating — 16 ratings
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Napoleon's Privates: 2,500 Years of History Unzipped
by:
Tony Perrottet
3.73 avg rating — 1,135 ratings 60. 
Sex, Botany, and Empire: The Story of Carl Linnaeus and Joseph Banks (Revolutions in Science)
by:
Patricia Fara
3.38 avg rating — 202 ratings 60. 
Sex and Punishment: Four Thousand Years of Judging Desire
by:
Eric Berkowitz
4.02 avg rating — 1,440 ratings 
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Spectacular Wickedness: Sex, Race, and Memory in Storyville, New Orleans 3.80 avg rating — 109 ratings
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The Man They Wanted Me to Be: Toxic Masculinity and a Crisis of Our Own Making 4.20 avg rating — 1,384 ratings
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Laid and Confused: Why We Tolerate Bad Sex and How to Stop
by:
Maria Yagoda
3.86 avg rating — 369 ratings 68. 
The Technology of Orgasm: "Hysteria," the Vibrator, and Women's Sexual Satisfaction
by:
Rachel P. Maines
3.91 avg rating — 918 ratings 68. 
The Spinster and Her Enemies: Feminism and Sexuality 1880-1930
by:
Sheila Jeffreys
4.09 avg rating — 148 ratings 68. 
Vibrator Nation: How Feminist Sex-Toy Stores Changed the Business of Pleasure
by:
Lynn Comella
4.18 avg rating — 112 ratings 
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The Time Falling Bodies Take To Light: Mythology, Sexuality and the Origins of Culture 4.33 avg rating — 174 ratings
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Do Gentlemen Really Prefer Blondes?: Bodies, Behavior, and Brains--the Science Behind Sex, Love, and Attraction
by:
Jena Pincott
3.67 avg rating — 813 ratings 68. 
Red Lights: The Lives of Sex Workers in Postsocialist China
by:
Tiantian Zheng
3.68 avg rating — 72 ratings 68. 
Queer as Folklore: The Hidden Queer History of Myths and Monsters
by:
Sacha Coward
4.06 avg rating — 734 ratings 
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Anticlimax: A Feminist Perspective on the Sexual Revolution
by:
Sheila Jeffreys
3.96 avg rating — 135 ratings 79. 
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This Far by Grace: A Bishop's Journey Through Questions of Homosexuality 4.28 avg rating — 47 ratings
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Conquest: Sexual Violence and American Indian Genocide
by:
Andrea Lee Smith
4.33 avg rating — 1,362 ratings 
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Sperm Wars: Infidelity, Sexual Conflict, and Other Bedroom Battles
by:
Robin Baker
3.91 avg rating — 2,963 ratings 79. 
How the Pro-Choice Movement Saved America: Freedom, Politics and the War on Sex
by:
Cristina Page
4.04 avg rating — 975 ratings 79. 
The Making of the Modern Body: Sexuality and Society in the Nineteenth Century 3.58 avg rating — 31 ratings
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Public Faces, Secret Lives: A Queer History of the Women's Suffrage Movement
by:
Wendy L. Rouse
3.82 avg rating — 101 ratings 
91. 
Kinsey: Crimes and Consequences: The Red Queen and the Grand Scheme
by:
Judith Reisman
3.93 avg rating — 30 ratings 
91. 
Searching for Sappho: The Lost Songs and World of the First Woman Poet
by:
Philip Freeman
3.92 avg rating — 448 ratings 
91. 
Storyville, New Orleans: Being an Authentic, Illustrated Account of the Notorious Red Light District
by:
Al Rose
4.18 avg rating — 275 ratings 91. 
Nationalism and Sexuality: Middle-Class Morality and Sexual Norms in Modern Europe
by:
George L. Mosse
3.91 avg rating — 108 ratings 91. 
A Place of Our Own: Six Spaces That Shaped Queer Women's Culture
by:
June Thomas
4.19 avg rating — 727 ratings 