Sex education in eighteenth century France / edited by Shane Agin.

Oxford, UK : Voltaire Foundation, 2011.

vi, 301 pages ; 24 cm.

Introduction : sex education in eighteenth-century France / Shane Agin -- Perdition, degeneration or legitimate pleasure? Eighteenth-century French education and the subject of sex / Jean Bloch -- Miss Manners and fooling around : conduct manuals and sexual mores in eighteenth-century France / Allan H. Pasco -- Rites of wrong : confessors' manuals and sins of the flesh in eighteenth-century France / Paul Scott -- Curing masturbation with a bath, a straitjacket or a wax museum : the strategies of Tissot, Bienville and Bertrand-Rival / Kathryn A. Hoffmann -- Sex education in early modern utopian literature : an investigation into the margins / Jean M. Goulemot -- Dangerous educations and factitious puberties : the enlightening lessons of foreign love / Matthew Lauzon -- The construction and education of the sexualised subject in Rousseau / Shane Agin -- Correspondence school for lovers : epistolary exchange and sexual education in Restif de la Bretonne's Le Nouvel Abeilard / Cecilia Feilla -- Representations of sexual awakening in eighteenth-century memoirs / Didier Masseau -- Female education and sex education in Choderlos de Laclos's Les Liaisons dangereuses / Chris Roulston -- The comedy of ignorance : scenes of sexual initiation in early modern pornographic literature / Jean-Christophe Abramovici -- The science of seduction : libertinism's privileged spheres of knowing / Juliette Cherbuliez -- Sexual awakening as radical enlightenment : arousal and ontology in Buffon and La Mettrie / James Grantham Turner.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 273-290) and index.

In English; occasional phrases in French.