Introduction: Sexuality Matters

Introduction: the birth of sexuality

The aim of this book is to trace Blake’s relationship to a pro-sex culture that seemed under threat at the end of the eighteenth century and the beginning of the nineteenth. Although I expect ‘Blake and sexuality’ to seem a familiar topic, ‘Blake and bourgeois politeness’ may appear to some readers to be either counter-intuitive or plain misguided. If this is so, it is the result of decades of ...

Introduction: Food Matters

carrie bradshaw: When a girl gets backed up against a wall she can’t afford, she has to consider renting others (sniffing through open window). Do . . . Do I smell curry? realtor: There’s an Indian restaurant downstairs. cb: Delia, I ask you, how can this apartment be $2,800 a month? I pay $750 for something that’s twice the size and it don’t smell like takeout. realtor: You have a rent-control...

Race , Sexuality , and Television Editor ’ s Introduction

Editors' Introduction: Why Repeat Victimization Matters

The basic facts of repeat victimization are well known. Substantial proportions of differences in rates of crime are attributable to differences in their concentration on particular targets, whether those targets are defined in terms of people, organizations or households. Four of the chapters in this collection detail the extent and correlates of such rates in continental Europe and worldwide ...

Introduction: the Role of Modern Neuroscience in Sexuality Research

The past decade has witnessed an explosion of neuroscience research on sexuality. This research has been driven by three forces: the quest of drug companies for Viagra and even better successors; technological advances in numerous areas, including functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) technology; and advances in neuroscience techniques in both animal and human postmortem research. The re...