Aphrodisia: Women, Sex and Pleasure in the Classical World by Jean Menzies #joyce Stacey Halls

Stacey Halls

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ISBN: 9780241646076

Aphrodisia: Women, Sex and Pleasure in the Classical World by Jean Menzies #joyce Stacey HallsWas Ovid a surprising champion of women's sexual pleasure? Or did he just want them to fake it? Where did the British Museum curators hide the most pornographic of frescoes? And what exactly was the phallic wooden object excavated in 90's Northumberland? In APHRODISIA, Dr Jean Menzies dives into the hidden history of women's sexuality in Ancient Greece and Rome. The classical world stretched across the Mediterranean for more than a millennium, its